1861, November. Prosecution of the Rev. George Gordon, Principal of Iberia College, for "resisting process" in the hands of a United States deputy marshal, who was endeavoring to capture a fugitive slave on the night of Sept. 20, 1860. The deputy and his assistants were caught, disarmed, taken to the woods and whipped. Principal Gordon witnessed without protest the last ten or fifteen lashes, and for so doing was sentenced to six months' confinement in the county jail, to pay a fine of $300, and the costs of prosecution—$1000 or $1500 more: Rev. George Gordon in the Principia, Nov. 29, 1861.

81. John Dean case.

1862, June. Prosecution of John Dean, a prominent lawyer of Washington, D.C., for protecting his client, an alleged fugitive just released, from a second arrest: Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 197, 198.

[APPENDIX C]

FIGURES FROM THE UNITED STATES CENSUS REPORTS RELATING TO FUGITIVE SLAVES

Table A

Census of 1850Census of 1860
RatioPer RatioPer
SlavesFugi-of Fugi-CentSlavesFugi-of Fugi-Cent
tivestives toof tivestives toof
SlavesLoss SlavesLoss
Alabama342,8442911,822.0084435,0803612,086.0082
Arkansas47,100212,242.0445111,115283,968.0252
Delaware2,29026881.13521,79812150.6674
Florida39,310182,184.045761,745115,613.0177
Georgia381,682894,288.0233462,1982320,096.0049
Kentucky210,981962,198.0455225,4831191,895.0527
Louisiana244,809902,720.0366331,726467,211.0138
Maryland90,368279324.308887,189115758.1318
Mississippi309,878407,558.0132436,631686,422.0155
Missouri87,422601,457.0686114,931991,161.0860
North Carolina288,548644,508.0222331,059615,262.0184
South Carolina384,9841624,061.0041402,4062317,501.0057
Tennessee239,459703,421.0292275,719299,509.0105
Texas58,161292,005.0498182,5661611,410.0087
Virginia472,528825,693.0175490,8651174,194.0238
3,200,3641,0113,165.03153,950,5118034,919.0203