DescriptionAricle from New Jersey Freeman about the attempted arrest of a fugtive slave by the Sheriff and constable of Burlington County, NJ. The story says that the sheriff believed it was his duty by the law to return the fugitive slave. At this time the Supreme Court had ruled it was no man's duty to return a fugtive slave. The slave escaped safely to New York.
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