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30th CONGRESS, [SENATE.] REP. COM.,
1st Session. No. 143.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MAY 3, 1848.
Submitted, and ordered to be printed, and 10,AO additional copies be printed for the use of
the Senate.
Mr. BUTLER made the following
REPORT:
(To accompany bill S. No. 239.]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom were referred certain
resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of the pas-
sage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding
States to recover slaves, when escaping into non-slaveholding
States, have had the same under consideration, and have bestowed
upon them that degree of attention and deliberation which resolu-
tions of such grave import should at all times demand from the
Legislature of the confederacy. The facts and circumstances -which
occasioned these, proceedings are fully set forth in the report of
the committee, and the action of the government cf Kentucky, and
are as follows
Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in favor of the passage
of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding States to
recover slaves when escaping into non-slaveholding States.
REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS of the General Assembly of. the commonwealth o
Kentucky.
The committee on federal relations, to whom were referred the
proceedings of a meeting of the people of the counties of Trimble
and Carroll, in relation to a recent abolition mob in the town of
Marshal, State. of Michigan, have had the same under considera-
tion and submit the following report:
It appears to the satisfaction of the committee that one Francis
Troutman was employed as agent and attorney in fact for Francis
Giltner, of the county of Carroll, to go to the said town of Mar-
shal, in the State of Michigan, to reclaim, take and bring back to
the State of Kentucky certain fugitive and runaway slaves, the pro-
perty of said Giltner; that said Troutman proceeded, under the ai-
thority thus given him, to said town.of Marshall, for the purpose of
reclaiming and bringing home to the owner the slaves aforesaid;
ani whilst endeavoring to arrest said slaves, a mob, composed of
free negroes, runaway slaves, and white men, to the number of from
two to three hundred, forbid said Troutman, and those who ac-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/sbutrep0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)