1848, December. Prosecution for attempting to abduct slaves from Nashville, Tennessee: Benedict, Memoir of Richard Dillingham; Stowe, Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 58, 59; Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, 713-718; Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, II, 590.
47. Clarksburgh (Indiana) case. (Case of Ray vs. Donnell and Hamilton.)
1849, May. Prosecution for aiding fugitive slave: 4 McLean's Reports, 504.
48. Case of Norris vs. Newton and others.
1849, September. Fugitives captured in Cass County, Michigan, discharged on trial at South Bend, Indiana, prosecution of those who interfered following: 5 McLean's Reports, 92.
49. First case under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. (Hamlet "kidnapping" case.)
1850, September 26. Rendition of James Hamlet, a free negro, living in New York City: Fugitive Slave Bill, its History and Unconstitutionality, with an Account of the Seizure of James Hamlet, 3; Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 304; McDougall, Fugitive Slaves, 43, 44.
50. Chaplin case.
1850. Prosecution of William L. Chaplin for attempting to abduct slaves of Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens from Washington, D.C.: Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, II, 80-82; Case of William R. Chaplin, etc. (Boston, 1851), p. 54.
51. Sims case.