[Footnote 225: Hutchinson: Code of Mississippi (1798 to 1848), p. 960. Revised Code of Mississippi, Authority of Legislature (1857), p. 603.] [Footnote 226: Laws of State of Missouri Revised by Legislature (1825), Vol. I., p. 289.] [Footnote 227: Laws of Florida, 1850-51, p. 132-3.] [Footnote 228: Laws of South Carolina, 1837, p. 58.] [Footnote 229: English: Digest of Statutes of Arkansas (1848) Authority of Leg. Chap. LI., p. 333.] [Footnote 230: Hurd: Law of Freedom and Bondage, Vol. II., p. 92.] [Footnote 231: Laws of a Public and General Nature of the District of Louisiana, of Territory of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri and State of Missouri to 1824 (passed Oct. 1, 1804).] [Footnote 232: Hurd: Vol. II., p. 106.] [Footnote 233: Laws of State of Delaware, Oct. 14, 1793. Hurd, Vol. IV. p. 76.] [Footnote 234: Passed Feb. 8, 1826. Laws of Delaware, Vol. VI., p. 715.] [Footnote 235: Statutes at Large, Vol. V., p. 450.] [Footnote 236: Jessie Torrey: A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, p. 57.] [Footnote 237: An address to the People of North Carolina, p. 38. (Y.) Sl. Pamp., Vol. LXI. Liberator: May 18, 1849. Niles' Reg., Feb. 25, 1826.] [Footnote 238: Emancipator, March 8, 1848.] [Footnote 239: Mrs. Childs: Anti-Slavery Catechism, p. 14. (Yale) Slavery Pamp., Vol. LXII.] [Footnote 240: Buckingham: The Eastern and Western States of America, Vol. I., p. 11. Niles' Reg., Oct. 18, 1828. Liberator, Oct. 1, 1852, Aug. 14, 1857. Alexander, Transatlantic Sketches, p. 230.] [Footnote 241: Liberator, May 18, 1849.] [Footnote 242: Ibid., Nov. 23, 1849. _Other cases_: Liberator, July 31, 1846; Sept. 5, 1845; Oct. 1. 1852; Dec. 3, 1841; Aug. 14, 1857; Aug. 15, 1856; April 25, 1835; Jan. 10, 1835; May 7, 1835; Nov. 6, 1846; Niles' Reg., Sept. 27, 1817; Jan. 31, 1818; May 23, 1818; July 4, 1818; Dec. 12, 1818; Feb. 25, 1826; June 28, 1828. W. Faux, Memorable Days in America, p. 277. Several of these as given took place in slave States.] [Footnote 243: Liberator, April 27, 1849.] [Footnote 244: Ibid., June 8, 1849.] [Footnote 245: North Carolina Standard, June 21, 1837. Niles' Register, April 25, 1829.] [Footnote 246: The Christian Citizen, Dec. 21, 1844. Quoting from Penn. Freeman.] [Footnote 247: Liberator, Feb. 21, 1840.] [Footnote 248: Niles' Weekly Reg., April 25, 1829. Quoting from Del. Gazette of April 17. American Annual Register, 1827-8-9, Vol. III., p. 123.] [Footnote 249: Niles' Register, May 23, 1829.