{"id":220,"date":"2019-08-05T21:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2019-08-07T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:36:21","slug":"charles-m-hall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/charles-m-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles M. Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles M. Hall (1821-1897)<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENURE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARINGS:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p><strong>RENDITIONS: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Henry Long (1850) &#8211; 1 returned<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When a counsel for the claimant asked a witness if he had &#8220;any communications with Henry respecting his position,&#8221; abolitionist lawyers objected, pointing out that testimony from the accused was barred under Section 6 of the law. After &#8220;further argument,&#8221; Commissioner Hall concurred: &#8220;What the alleged slave said cannot be given in evidence. I will permit any act of his to be put in evidence to prove his servitude, to show the relation between him and the claimant: but no conversation must be admitted.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1850-12-28-NY-Weekly-Herald-Henry-Long-Case.pdf\">1850-12-28<\/a>\u00a0New York <em>Weekly Herald<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>Throughout the hearing, Commissioner Hall appeared uncertain about the extent of his authority. At one point, when Hall expressed &#8220;doubt as to his power to adjourn the examination,&#8221; abolitionist Lewis Tappan intervened and &#8220;alluded to the fact of Judge [Robert C.] Grier, in Philadelphia, having done so&#8221; in a recent case. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1850-12-24-NY-Tribune-Henry-Long-Case-p4-NP.pdf\">1850-12-24<\/a>\u00a0New York <em>Tribune<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles M. Hall (1821-1897) OFFICE LOCATION: New York, NY TENURE:\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 1 CASES:\u00a0 Henry Long (1850) &#8211; 1 returned When a counsel for the claimant asked a witness if he had &#8220;any communications with Henry respecting his position,&#8221; abolitionist lawyers objected, pointing out that testimony from the accused was barred under Section 6 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}