Excerpt from The New Crime Against Humanity: A Sermon, Preached at the Music Hall, in Boston, on Sunday, June 4, 1854 Mr. Loring asked Mr. Burns if he wanted time to think of the matter, and counsel to aid in his defence. I shall never forget how he looked around that court room, at the Marshal, the kidnapper's lawyers, the Commissioner, the claimant and his witness! Save the counsel whom he had never seen before, there was scarce a friendly face that his eye rested on. At length he said timidly and catching for breath, Yes. Mr. Loring put off the case until Saturday. The Fugitive Slave Bill Commisioner was to lecture at Cambridge on Fri day. He is a Professor at Harvard College, and he could not conveniently hold court on that day. He is a Judge of Probate, and looks after widows and orphans he must be in the Probate Office on Monday. Saturday was the most convenient day for the Commissioner. So in a matter which was to determine whether the prisoner should be a free man or only a thing which might be sold and beaten as a beast, the court allowed him forty-eight hours delay. It really gave him time to breathe a little. Let us be grateful to the Commissioner He gave more favor than any Fugitive Slave Bill Commissioners have done before, I believe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.