Richard H.Dana, who was counsel for Elizur Wright, asked Judge Hoar what sort of man Bigelow was.

To which the Judge replied: "He is a thoroughly honest man, and will decide the case according to the law and the evidence as he believes them to be.

But I think it will take a good deal of evidence to convince him that one man owns another." It is not, perhaps, pertinent to my personal recollections but it may be worth while to tell my readers that Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, and some others were indicted afterward for participation in an intended rescue of Anthony Burns, another fugitive slave.

The indictment was quashed by Judge Curtis, who had probably got pretty sick of the whole thing.
But Parker, while in jail awaiting trial, prepared a defence, which is printed, and which is one of the most marvellous examples of scathing and burning denunciation to be found in all literature.

I commend it to young men as worth their study.
Some time after the Shadrach case, Asa O.Butman, a United States Deputy Marshal, who had been quite active and odious in the arrest and extradition of Burns, came to Worcester one Saturday afternoon, and stopped at the American Temperance House.