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was systematically supported through collections taken from benevolent people. It is " never wrong to do right" was a truth shrewdly used to justify actions which the law of the United States called a crime. Resistance through legislatures, courts, societies and popular meetings obstructed the attempt of any owner of the flying negro to recover his property. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin ventured to say in the case of Booth, who was tried for aiding in the rescue of Glover, that the fugitive slave law was unconstitutional, but, after due hearing, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously affirmed its validity.
