MCHENRY CASE
\mək hˈɛnɹi kˈe͡ɪs], \mək hˈɛnɹi kˈeɪs], \m_ə_k h_ˈɛ_n_ɹ_i k_ˈeɪ_s]\
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(1851). One McHenry, a respectable colored resident of Syracuse, N.Y., was arrested in October as a fugitive slave. He escaped the officers, but was recaptured. A convention of the Liberty party was then in session, and fully 2000 people hastened to the court house and rescued McHenry, who escaped to Canada. The U.S. Marshal was tried for kidnapping, but acquitted.
By John Franklin Jameson
