{"id":418,"date":"2019-09-04T11:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2019-09-04T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:14:52","slug":"j-cooke-longstreth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/j-cooke-longstreth\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Cooke Longstreth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J. Cooke Longstreth<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENURE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARINGS:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p><strong>RENDITIONS: 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CASES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Webster Case \u00a0(1859) &#8211; 1 released<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After Philadelphia commissioner J. Cooke Longstreth issued a warrant for Webster&#8217;s arrest, U.S. Marshal John Jenkins journeyed to Harrisburg to seize the accused. The arrest occurred in broad daylight at the market in downtown Harrisburg, quickly triggering outrage. Residents there demanded that Jenkins &#8220;show us his authority for the arrest,&#8221; and the marshal reluctantly produced a warrant of arrest &#8220;signed by Cooke Longstreth, calling for the arrest of one Daniel Dangerfield.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/09\/1859-04-04-Harrisburg-PA-Daily-Telegraph-Webster-Case-SLP.pdf\">1859-04-04<\/a>\u00a0Harrisburg, PA\u00a0<em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>In his decision to release Webster, Longstreth revealed that the claimants&#8217; initial power of attorney (under Section 6 of the law) had contained errors. Longstreth had allowed the documents to be &#8220;amended&#8221; before issuing a warrant for Daniel Webster&#8217;s arrest. The case ultimately hinged on the accused&#8217;s identity, and whether the claimants could definitely prove that Webster was the fugitive described in the claimants&#8217; documents. Yet Longstreth explained that the testimony of William M. Jones, an African American anti-slavery activist from Harrisburg, &#8220;had given him anxious thought.&#8221; Jones testified that Webster could not possibly have escaped when the claimants claimed, as Webster had helped dig a cellar for a Harrisburg property Jones purchased in 1853. Longstreth tied his decision to Jones&#8217;s testimony, noting &#8220;it would be unjust&#8230; to send this man back to Virginia&#8221; when Longstreth&#8217;s &#8220;mind was not perfectly satisfied as to his being the Daniel Dangerfield described in the record, and claimed as being a fugitive from labor.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/09\/1859-04-07-Philadelphia-Press-Daniel-Webster-Case-p2-GB.pdf\">1859-04-07<\/a>\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0<em>Press<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Details of the Webster case were later compiled and published by James Miller McKim of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ASPC0001981300\"><em>The Arrest, Trial, and Release of Daniel Webster, a Fugitive Slave<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Cooke Longstreth OFFICE LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA TENURE:\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 0 CASES:\u00a0 Daniel Webster Case \u00a0(1859) &#8211; 1 released After Philadelphia commissioner J. Cooke Longstreth issued a warrant for Webster&#8217;s arrest, U.S. Marshal John Jenkins journeyed to Harrisburg to seize the accused. The arrest occurred in broad daylight at the market in downtown Harrisburg, quickly [&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-418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/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=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}