{"id":197,"date":"2019-08-05T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2019-12-30T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T20:19:37","slug":"alexander-gardiner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/alexander-gardiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Gardiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Gardiner (1818-1851)<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENURE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a01845 &#8211; 1\/21\/1851<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARINGS:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p><strong>RENDITIONS: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Hamlet (1850) &#8211; 1 returned<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gardiner&#8217;s warrant of arrest issued for James Hamlet. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/07\/1850-10-03-NY-National-Anti-Slavery-Standard.pdf\">1850-10-03<\/a> NY <em>National Anti-Slavery Standard<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>Handling the first case under the new law, Commissioner Gardiner also oversaw the first implementation of Section 9. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/07\/1850-10-03-NY-National-Anti-Slavery-Standard-Gardiner.pdf\">1850-10-03<\/a>\u00a0NY <em>National Anti-Slavery Standard<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gardiner was the brother-in-law of President John Tyler. While he handled the first case under the law, occurring on September 26, 1850, he died just months later at the age of 32.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After the New York\u00a0<em>Atlas\u00a0<\/em>blasted Gardiner, his brother-in-law John Tyler sprung to his defense. Writing an anonymous editorial to the Portsmouth, Virginia\u00a0<em>Pilot\u00a0<\/em>entitled &#8220;The Fugitive Slave Bill and Commissioner Gardiner,&#8221; Tyler denigrated the editors of the <em>Atlas<\/em> as\u00a0&#8220;jackasses&#8221; who had &#8220;in the language of low blackguardism with which they seem to be familiar&#8221; condemned Gardiner. Tyler praised his brother-in-law for his handling of the case, noting that &#8220;the fugitive was promptly dealt by and restored to his owner in Baltimore. Mr. Gardiner has proven himself to be a faithful public servant, an honest man, and a patriot. And yet, by a certain class of editors in New York he is sneered at, and an effort is made to excite dislike towards him on the part of the public.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/12\/1850-10-15-Portsmouth-VA-Daily-Pilot-Tyler-Editorial-p2-LVA.pdf\">1850-10-15<\/a> Portsmouth VA <em>Daily Pilot<\/em>] For the original October 12, 1850 letter Tyler sent to S. Cunningham, the editor of the\u00a0<em>Pilot<\/em>, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/John-Tyler-1850-Letter-Signed-Defending-Fugitive-Slave-Act-Attacking-NY-Press\/133212073407?hash=item1f040eedbf:g:disAAOSwq05dTDOa\">eBay listing<\/a>, while for Tyler&#8217;s previous support of the paper (which he believed &#8220;might be made the instrument of doing me justice at least to some extent&#8221;), see his <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalarchive.wm.edu\/handle\/10288\/20574\">letter to Gardiner on January 7, 1850<\/a>, in which he encouraged Gardiner to solicit subscriptions for the <em>Pilot<\/em> in New York, in order to &#8220;give greater boldness to the paper.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>News of Gardiner&#8217;s death was reprinted in papers throughout the country. One editorial praised the late commissioner for his &#8220;prompt execution of the fugitive slave law, recently passed by congress&#8230;. With clear intellect and sound judgement he gave an interpretation to the act of Congress, which has served as a precedent to guide in all other cases, and has done more than any other single act to strengthen and confirm the bonds of Union.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1851-02-12-Raleigh-NC-Weekly-Register-Gardiner-Death-Newspapers.com_.pdf\">1851-02-12<\/a>\u00a0Raleigh NC\u00a0<em>Weekly Register<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Gardiner (1818-1851) OFFICE LOCATION: New York, NY TENURE:\u00a0\u00a01845 &#8211; 1\/21\/1851 HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 1 CASES:\u00a0 James Hamlet (1850) &#8211; 1 returned Gardiner&#8217;s warrant of arrest issued for James Hamlet. [1850-10-03 NY National Anti-Slavery Standard] Handling the first case under the new law, Commissioner Gardiner also oversaw the first implementation of Section 9. 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