ARGUMENT OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD, IN DEFENCE OF ABEL F. FITCH AND OTHERS, UNDER AN INDICTMENT FOR ARSON, DELIVERED AT DETROIT ON THE 11TH, 12TH AND 14TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1851. PHONOGRAPHICALLY REPORTED BY T.C. LELAND.

Detroit: F.B. Way & Company, 1851. 64pp, stitched. Foxed early leaves, else scattered light soil. Good+ or so.

Seward was counsel to Fitch, allegedly the "chief conspirator" in a plot to sabotage the Michigan Central Railroad, whose newly built and unfenced line had killed cattle and other livestock grazing onto the Road's right-of-way. "The railroad, instead of trying to mitigate the controversy, acted in a high-handed manner," and brought suit after the burning of its freight house in Detroit. [Greenly]. Fitch and others, arrested for the crime, were denied bail; he died in jail during his trial. This piece presents Seward's compelling jury argument.
Greenly 93. 38 Decker 377. BEAL 12145. 540 NUC 0442781 [4]. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt. Item #5395

Price: $175.00

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