§ 25. Kidnapping from 1793 to 1850: Prigg case 27 § 26. Necessity of more stringent fugitive slave provisions 28 § 27. Action of Congress from 1847 to 1850 28 § 28. Slavery in the District of Columbia 29 § 29. The second Fugitive Slave Act (1850) 29 § 30. Provisions of the second Fugitive Slave Act 30 § 31. Arguments for the bill 31 § 32. Arguments against the bill 32 CHAPTER III. _PRINCIPAL CASES FROM 1789 TO 1860._ § 33. Change in character of cases 34 § 34. The first case of rescue (1793) 35 § 35. President Washington's demand for a fugitive (1796) 35 § 36. Kidnapping cases 36 § 37. Jones case (1836) 36 § 38. Solomon Northup case (about 1830) 37 § 39. Washington case (between 1840 and 1850) 38 § 40. Oberlin case (1841) 38 § 41. Interference and rescues 38 § 42. Chickasaw rescue (1836) 38 § 43. Philadelphia case (1838) 39 § 44. Latimer case (1842) 39 § 45. Ottoman case (1846) 40 § 46. Interstate relations 41 § 47. Boston and Isaac cases (1837, 1839) 41 § 48. Ohio and Kentucky cases (1848) 41 § 49. Prosecutions 42 § 50. Van Zandt, Pearl, and Walker cases (1840, 1844) 42 § 51. Unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 43 § 52. Principle of the selection of cases 43 § 53. Hamlet case (1850) 43 § 54. Sims case (1851) 44 § 55. Burns case (1854) 45 § 56. Garner case (1856) 46 § 57. Shadrach case (1851) 47 § 58. Jerry McHenry case (1851) 48 § 59. Oberlin-Wellington case (1858) 49 § 60. Christiana case (1851) 50 § 61. Miller case (1851) 51 § 62. John Brown in Kansas (1858) 51 CHAPTER IV. _FUGITIVES AND THEIR FRIENDS._