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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.	12	2	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore)	6	0	Browse	Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3	6	0	Browse	Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life	4	0	Browse	Search
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closed and fastened his door, so that the crowd could not follow him. The fugitive passed out of the back door, and was never afterward recaptured. The disappointed master brought an action against Samuel Mason for rescuing his slave. Charles J. Ingersoll and his brother Joseph, two accomplished lawyers of Philadelphia, conducted the trial for him, with zeal and ingenuity worthy of a better cause. Isaac T. Hopper was summoned as a witness, and in the course of examination he was asked what course members of the Society of Friends adopted when a fugitive slave came to them. He replied, I am not willing to answer for any one but myself. Well, said Mr. Ingersoll, what would you do in such a case? Would you deliver him to his master? Indeed I would not! answered the Friend. My conscience would not permit me to do it. It would be a great crime; because it would be disobedience to my own dearest convictions of right. I should never expect to enjoy an hour of peace afterwar

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