The language of this charge, and his well-known views on the legal and political aspects of the question, did not afford a very encouraging outlook for those who were to be tried before him or in his court. These very natural apprehensions were increased, when his charge to the grand jury followed on September 29, 1851. He briefly reviewed the reported facts of the Christiana affair, and though he avowed entire freedom from any impressions of the guilt or innocence of the accused, he pointed to the charges made against them as sufficient to establish the crime of treason if they were duly proved. He also pointed out that as the offence of treason was not triable in his Court, and though the grand jury then empanelled could not take cognizance of the indictments, his learned brother of the Supreme Court, the Hon. Robert C. Grier, who presided in this circuit, would sit on the trial of the cause. Justice Grier was a Pennsylvanian, appointed by President Tyler in 1844, to succeed Henry R. Baldwin, deceased. The result of the submission to the Grand Inquest for the United States inquiring for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to the August Term, 1851, was that they found true bills for treason against the following persons, which indictments were, on October 6, 1851, remitted from the District Court to the Circuit Court: 1. Castner Hanway. 2. Joseph Scarlet. 3. Elijah Lewis. 4. James Jackson. 5. George Williams. 6. Jacob Moore. 7. George Reed. 8. Benjamin Johnson. 9. Daniel Caulsberry. 10. Alson Pernsley. 11. William Brown, 2nd. 12. Henry Green. 13. Elijah Clark. 14. John Holliday. 15. William Williams. 16. Benjamin Pindergast. 17. John Morgan. 18. Ezekiel Thompson. 19. Thomas Butler. 20. Collister Wilson. 21. John Jackson. 22. William Brown. 23. Isaiah Clarkson. 24. Henry Simms. 25. Charles Hunter. 26. Lewis Gates. 27. Peter Woods. 28. Lewis Clarkson. 29. Nelson Carter. 30. William Parker. 31. John Berry. 32. William Berry. 33. Samuel Williams. 34. Josh Hammond. 35. Henry Curtis. 36. Washington Williams. 37. William Thomas. 38. Nelson Ford. The District Attorney then moved for a venire to issue to the marshal, who was commanded to return 108 jurors, of whom 12 were to be summoned and returned from Lancaster County, where the offenses charged were perpetrated.