Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Judge Harrington” in chapter 7 of John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison:

...ating its way through society towards the powder magazine; but the substance of it never varied. The whole age-long contest in all its Protean forms is summarized in a well-known legal anecdote. Judge Harrington of Vermont is said to have told the attorney for a Southern owner who was seeking to recover a fugitive slave in 1808, that his evidence of ownership was insufficient. What evidence does your hono...
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