Niles' Weekly Register. (Baltimore, Md.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 6, 1836 Page: 11 of 16
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NILES’ REGISTER—AUG. 6, 1836— OUTRAGE IN COURT. 387
1749. The fly shuttle generally used in England.
1756. Cotton velvets and quiltings made in England for the
first time.
1761. Awkright obtained his first patent for the spinning frame,
which he further improved.
1768. The stocking frame applied by Hammond to the making
of lace.
1774. A bill passed to prevent the export of machinery used
in cotton factories.
1779. Mule spinning invented by Hargrave.
1781. First import of raw cotton from Brazil into England.
1782. Watt took out his patent for the steam engine.
1783. A bounty granted in England on the export of certain
cotton goods.
1785. Power looms invented by Dr. Cartwright, Steam en-
gines used in cotton factories.
1786. Bleaching first performed by the agency of the oxymu-
riatic acid.
1787. First machinery to spin cotton put in operation in
France.
1789. Sea Island cotton first planted in the United States;
and upland cotton first cultivated for use and export about this
time.
1790. Slator, an Englishman, builds the first American cot-
ton factory at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
1793. Eli Whitney, an American, invents the cotton gin,
which he patents.
1798. First mill and machinery for cotton erected in Switzer-
land.
1799. Spinning by machinery introduced into Saxony this
year.
1803. First cotton factory built in New Hampshire.
1805. Power looms successfully and widely introduced into
England.
1807. The revolution in Spanish .America begins to furnish
new markets for cotton manufactures.
1810. Digest of cotton manufactures in the United States by
Mr. Gallatin, and another by Tench Coxe, esq. of Philadelphia.
1811. Machinery to make bobbin lace patented by John Burn.
1813. The India trade more free, and more British manufac-
factures sent there.
1815. The power loom introduced into the United States;
first at Waltham.
1818. Average price of cotton 34 cents—higher than since
1810. New method of preparing sewing cotton, by Mr. Holt.
1818. Extraordinary prices for Alabama cotton lands,
1820. Steam power first applied with success extensively to
lace machinery.
1822. First cotton factory in Lowell erected.
1823. First export of raw cotton from Egypt into Great Bri-
tain.
1825. In New Orleans cotton at from 23 to 25 cents per pound.
1826. Self-acting mule spinner patented in England by Ro-
berts.
1827. American cotton manufactures first exported to any
considerable extent.
1829. Highest duty in the United States on foreign cotton
manufactures.
1830. About this time Mr. Dyer introduced a machine from
the United States into England for the purpose of making cards.
1832. Duty on cotton goods imported into the United States
reduced; and in England it is forbid to employ minors in cotton
mills by night, or more than nine hours on a Saturday, in con-
sequence of which they work at something else.
1834. Cotton at 17 cents.
1835. Extensive purchases made of cotton lands by specula-
tors and others.
1836. Cotton at from 18 to 20 cents. [Bicknell's Rep.
The following is the reply to the letter of Mr. Coffin-
Quincy, 31st May, 1824.
My dear sir—Agreeably to your request, I send you some
memoranda respecting a very important event in the history of
our colonial opposition to the measures of the British govern-
ment in 1768.
A circular letter dated 11th February, 1768, was addressed
“by the house of representatives of Massachusetts bay, to the
speakers of the respective houses of representatives and bur-
gesses on this continent,” proposing a plan of opposition to the
encroachments of the British parliament, which was expressed
in such terms and sentiments as gave great offence to the mi-
nistry. On the 21st June following, governor Bernard sent a
message to the house of representatives, in which he asserted
that he had his majesty’s orders to require them to rescind the
vote respecting said circular letter. On the 30th of the same
month, the house sent a message to governor B. explanatory
of their rights, and refused to rescind, notwithstand the man-
date of the king. This important vote was determined by
ninety-two to seventeen, nineteen members absent.
You no doubt, sir, well remember the excitement which this
measure occasioned. The majority were celebrated in toasts
and huzzas as the “glorious ninety-two,” and the minority
were execrated as the "infamous seventeen.” The lories cried
out rebellion! rebellion! In no part of the British dominions
was the Scotch rebellion execrated more than in New England.
Loyalty to the king was at that time undiminished; but opposi-
tion to the parliament was almost universal, even in the face of
rebellion itself.
Agreeably to your wishes, I send you a list of the names of
the minority who were in favor of obeying the mandate of the
king. I remain, dear sir, with affection and respect, your
friend, &c.
[The names of the persons we of course omit. Ed. Rep.]
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OUTRAGE IN COURT.
From the Boston Courier of Tuesday last.
Considerable excitement has been made in this city since Sa-
turday morning last, in consequence of the arrival at this port,
in the brig Chickasaw, capt. Eldridge, from Baltimore, of two
colored women, named Eliza Small and Polly Ann Bates,
claimed as slaves of John B. Morris, of Baltimore. Mr. Morris,
hearing of the flight of the two females, sent his agent, Mr.
Matthew Turner, to this city, with power of attorney to hold
them on their arrival. In pursuance of this order, Mr. Turner
went on board the brig last Saturday, while she lay in the
stream. He saw the females on board; they freely admitted
that they were the property of Mr. Morris, and gave him rea-
sons for making their escape. Mr. Turner then requested cap-
tain Eldridge to detain them, until he could obtain a warrant for
their arrest. At that time there was a large collection of color-
ed people upon the wharf, all very much excited. During Mr.
Turner’s absence, the females were rescued from the custody
of the captain, by a writ of habeas corpus, in the hands of a co-
lored man named S. H. Adams.
They were taken on Saturday before judge Wilde, who, in
consequence of a technical objection, did not proceed in the
hearing, and the case was postponed till yesterday morning, at
9 o’clock. At the opening of the court, yesterday morning, the
chief justice Shaw took the bench. A. H. Fiske, esq. counsel
for captain Eldridge, read the captain’s answer, which stated
that he had brought them as passengers in the brig, but that be-
fore she arrived at the wharf the owners sent him orders to
have her anchored in the stream; that he had been applied to
by the agent of their owner, who claimed the two women as
his slaves, and that he has detained them, in order to get a war-
rant to carry them before one of the United States judges.
Mr. Fiske then read an affidavit in confirmation of this state
ment, and moved that the hearing might be postponed, in order
to bring evidence from Baltimore that they were slaves. The
court was addressed by Mr. Fiske in support of his motion, and
by Mr. Sewall in opposition to it. The judge thought that un-
der the circumstances, capt. Eldridge had no right to detain
them, as he did not bring himself within the provisions of the
United States statute, and that the women must be discharged.
The judge concludes his opinion by saying, “the prisoners
must therefore be discharged from all further detention,” when
Mr. Turner rose and intimated that he should make a fresh ar-
rest of the women, and inquired of the judge whether it would
be necessary to have a warrant for that purpose. At the same
moment a constable was sent to lock the door which led down
stairs. This created instantly a tremendous excitement among
the colored people with whom the court was thronged. Under
the mistaken impression that the words of the judge amounted
to a discharge of the prisoners, and supposing that the claimant
was about to make a fresh seizure on the spot, which might be
intercepted, a general rush was made, prisoners and crowd to-
gether—down the stairs of the court house, at the door of
which the prisoners entered a carriage and were driven off, be-
fore any one could prevent it.
The judge stated that they must be brought back to be regu-
larly discharged in open court. The counsel for the women
expressed to the judge his regret that any violation of the deco-
rum of the cotirt should have been committed. The colored
people present had, however, acted under a mistake, and a de-
lay of five minutes would have seen the prisoners at liberty,
unless, indeed, they had been taken on a fresh process from
some other court.
A SCRAP FROM HISTORY.
From the Columbia, (N. Y.) Republican.
A few years previous to the war of the revolution, and while
opposition to the encroachments and wrongs of the mother
country was threatened by the colonies, certain members of the
house of representatives of Massachusetts bay—seventeen in
number—rendered themselvesunenviably notorious on the fol-
lowing occasion. The legislature had addressed a circular to
the speakers of the respective houses of representatives in the
colonies-, proposing a plan of opposition to the encroachments
of the English parliament upon the rights of the colonies. This
matter reaching the ears of the king, the governor, by his di-
rections, required the legislature to revoke said circular. The
question ofrevoking coming up in the house, 17 members were
found that would succumb to the king.
In the year 1824, shortly after 17 of our state senators had
rendered themselves equally notorious by their vote against the
choice of electors by the people, Alexander Coffin, esq. of this
city, who occasionally corresponded with the late president
John Adams, both before and since the revolution, addressed
a letter to Mr. Adams requesting a particular statement of the
historical event above alluded to; remarking “that the seven-
teen rescinding members correspond so exactly with our seven-
teen senators who had the hardihood to deprive the people of
the state of N. York of a voice in the choice of electors of pre-
sident and vice president, that I am anxious to know their
names, that they may be coupled together upon all future oc-
casions.”
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