SPEECH OF JOHN HOSSACK,

CONVICTED OF A

VIOLATION OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW,

BEFORE JUDGE DRUMMOND,

OF THE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, CHICAGO, ILL.


NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. 1860.




SPEECH OF JOHN HOSSACK.


[At the February term of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, JOHN HOSSACK and JOSEPH STOUT,
of Ottawa, were convicted of having aided in rescuing a
fugitive slave from the custody of the U.S. Deputy Marshal at
Ottawa, Oct. 20, 1859, and sentenced by Judge Drummond to pay
a fine of one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned ten days.
Mr. HOSSACK is a Scotchman by birth, but spent many years of
his life in Quebec, following the occupation of a baker.
About twenty years since, he removed to Ottawa, Illinois, and