{"id":247,"date":"2019-08-06T22:50:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2019-08-07T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T13:14:32","slug":"samuel-guthrie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/samuel-guthrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Guthrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Guthrie<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>New Castle, DE<\/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>Edward &#8220;Ned&#8221; Davis (1854) &#8211; 1 returned<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On April 16, 1854, Commissioner Guthrie remanded alleged fugitive Edward Davis to slavery in Georgia, from where he had escaped by ship. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1854-04-20-NY-Tribune-Edward-Davis-hearing-p5-6-NP.pdf\">1854-04-20<\/a> &#8220;Another Slave Catching Outrage!!&#8221; New York\u00a0<em>Tribune<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the Senate floor, Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner drew attention to the Edward Davis case. Sumner presented a memorial from Delaware abolitionist Thomas Garrett, who claimed to have discussed the case at length with Commissioner Guthrie. Garrett wrote: &#8220;Guthrie, who got ten dollars for returning poor Davis, declared to me that he would have given fifty dollars cheerfully to be released from making the decision.&#8221; Delaware senator James A. Bayard, Jr. responded, defending Guthrie as &#8220;a gentleman of high standing at the bar, a modest, retiring, firm man.&#8221; [<em>Cong. Globe<\/em>, 33rd Congress, 1st Sess. (1854): 1789, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=XZ4hQvMh1TgC&amp;lpg=PA1789&amp;dq=commissioner%20samuel%20guthrie%20new%20castle%20delaware&amp;pg=PA1789#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">WEB<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Guthrie OFFICE LOCATION: New Castle, DE TENURE:\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 1 CASES:\u00a0 Edward &#8220;Ned&#8221; Davis (1854) &#8211; 1 returned On April 16, 1854, Commissioner Guthrie remanded alleged fugitive Edward Davis to slavery in Georgia, from where he had escaped by ship. [1854-04-20 &#8220;Another Slave Catching Outrage!!&#8221; New York\u00a0Tribune] NOTES:\u00a0 On the Senate floor, Massachusetts senator [&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-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/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=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}