Case of the slave Isaac Brown

AN OUTRAGE EXPOSED.

Isaac Brown, a colored man, who had been residing in the state of Pennsylvania for more than a year, was arrested in Philadelphia about the 1st of May, 1847, on a warrant issued by John Swift, Mayor of the city, charged with being a fugitive from the justice of the State of Maryland. The arrest was made at the instance of John Zell, a stranger, and Brown was committed to await the requisition of the Governor of Maryland. A writ of habeas corpus was awarded by Judge Parsons, and the 4th of May fixed for the hearing. In the mean time, however, the Governor of Pennsylvania issued his precept, reciting that his excellency the Governor of Maryland. had given information to him, that a certain Isaac Brown stood charged, upon the oath of Alexander Somerville, with an assault and battery upon said Somerville, with intent to kill him, and authorizing and requiring Judge Parsons "to issue a warrant in due form of law, directed to any constable or other proper officer for apprehending and securing the said Isaac Brown," and causing him, when secured, to be delivered to John Zell, agent of the State of Maryland.

On the day fixed for the hearing, Judge Parsons announced that he had received Governor Shunk's precept, and therefore must discharge the habeas corpus. That he was obliged to obey the command of the Governor, and surrender the prisoner to John Zell, on being satisfied that he was the person demanded: that he had no discretion in the matter at all, and would give Mr. Zell time to bring his witnesses to prove the identity of the prisoner. The following day was appointed for the examination of the witnesses. When

Charles Gibbons and Thomas Earle, Esqs., appeared as counsel for the prisoner, and Edward D. Ingraham, Esq., for the Maryland agent. Two witnesses were then called by Mr. Ingraham, who testified as follows:

Thomas C. Wilson, sworn. I reside in Baltimore. I know Isaac Brown--the prisoner. I have seen him in prison in Calvert county, Maryland. He was supposed to be a slave of Mr. Somerville. It has been eighteen months since I saw him.

Cross-examined by Mr. Gibbons. Question.--What business are you engaged in?
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Ans.--I am an agent.

Quest.--What kind of an agent?

Ans.--I am a general agent--I follow a general agency.

Quest.--Whose agent are you?

Ans.--I have been agent for Hope H. Slatter of Baltimore for several years.

Quest.--What is Hope H. Slatter's business?

Ans.--It is to buy negroes and send them to the South. I have not seen Mr. Somerville short of a year. I am not particularly acquainted with him. He is a planter. I don't think I was ever on his plantation. Never was at his house; don't know how many slaves he keeps. I first saw Isaac Brown in Prince Frederick, Calvert County, Maryland. He was in jail. They said he was there for shooting Mr. Somerville. I was in the jail. It is 85 miles from Baltimore. I saw Brown afterwards in Baltimore--dont know how he got there. He was in Mr. Slatter's slave yard when I saw him. That was a year ago last September or October. Can't say how long he was there--but I saw him frequently while he was there. There were 35 or 40 negroes there at the same time.

Question.--Did not Mr. Slatter send Isaac Brown to Louisiana, and was he not sold in that State?

This question was objected to by Mr. Ingraham, and overruled by the Judge.

Samuel Y. Harris, sworn. This witness testified that he knew the prisoner--had seen him in Prince Frederick jail, in October, 1845--that he was confined there for some time on a charge of shooting Mr. Somerville. That he was taken from the jail to Mr. Slatter's slave yard in Baltimore--and witness did not see him afterwards until he was arrested in this proceeding.

This was the only testimony offered to prove the identity of the prisoner, and Mr. Ingraham asked that the Prisoner might be surrendered to the agent of the State of Maryland.

To this, Mr. Gibbons, on behalf of the prisoner objected. He claimed the right to be heard by the Court on the merits of the whole proceeding as fully as in any other case of habeas corpus, and denied the power of the Governor or the Court to suspend that writ, or refuse any of its advantages to a citizen in custody, charged with having fled from the justice of another State. After some conversation between the Court and the Counsel, the Judge decided that Mr. Gibbons might proceed with his argument, which he did,--contending, first, that the precept issued by Governor Shunk was defective, and not in accordance with the act of Congress--and secondly, that it was the duty of the Judge to go behind the precept, and inquire whether it was issued upon proper evidence. He also said that he was prepared to show to the

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Court, that there was no such evidence presented to Gov. Shunk as the law requires to authorize the arrest and exile of a citizen upon such process, and that the whole proceeding was a fraud upon the Governor and the laws of the Commonwealth. That Isaac Brown was no fugitive from justice--but had been sent out of the state of Maryland against his will--and the present charge of an assault and battery upon Somerville, alleged to have been committed in 1845, was a mere trick, to evade the late act of the Pennsylvania Legislature for the punishment and suppression of kidnapping. The offer of Mr. Gibbons was objected to by Mr. Ingraham, and the objection sustained by the Judge.

Mr. Earle followed on the same side, but had not progressed far in his able argument, when the Court adjourned over for two days. As our object is to give a brief history of facts in regard to this extraordinary case, we must omit a detailed notice of the arguments of the counsel.

Before the time appointed for Mr. Earle to resume his argument, Governor Shunk requested Judge Parsons to suspend further proceedings in the case, until he (the Governor) could obtain the opinion of the Attorney General in relation to it. On Friday, the 21st May, Judge Parsons received from Governor Shunk, a communication informing him, that under the advice of the Attorney General, he had reconsidered and revoked his precept, being satisfied that the evidence upon which he had issued it, was insufficient. But he was also informed that Governor Pratt, of Maryland, had sent on a second requisition, founded on a bill of indictment against Isaac Brown; (being for the same offence of which he was first charged;) a second precept from Governor Shunk, therefore, accompanied the communication received by the Judge. Monday, the 24th May, was fixed by the Judge for a hearing on this second precept, the prisoner in the meantime being kept in jail under the former proceeding, which the Governor had revoked, Judge Parsons declaring it unnecessary to issue a new warrant.

On Saturday the 22nd of May, Mr. Gibbons caused to be issued out of the Supreme Court another process, called the writ de homine replegiando: which is a writ to replevy a man out of prison, and which has never before been successfully used in a like case, in this State. The Sheriff of the County, Henry Lelar, Esq., executed the writ on Saturday evening, by replevying Isaac Brown out of the custody of the keeper of the prison--and

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finding no other process lodged against him, he set him at liberty.

On Monday Judge Parsons sent an officer to the prison, with directions to bring Isaac Brown into Court; returning alone, he informed the Judge that Brown was not there. A warrant was immediately issued for Mr. Anthony Freed, the keeper of the prison, a worthy and and faithful officer, and he was soon after brought into Court, under arrest. The Judge demanded to know of Mr. Freed why he had suffered Isaac Brown to escape from his custody. Mr. Freed answered that he had not escaped from his custody, but that he had delivered him into the hands of the High Sheriff of the County, on a writ issued out of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a certified copy of which he handed to the Judge, saying, "there, sir, is the authority under which I acted."

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ss.--The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the Sheriff of Philadelphia county, greeting:--We command you that justly and without dely you cause to be replevied Isaac Brown, whom Anthony Freed, late of your County, took, and taken, doth hold, as it is said, unless the aforesaid Isaac Brown was taken by our special precept of our Chief Justice, or for the death of any man, or any other right whereof, according to the laws and usages of this Commonwealth, he is not repleviable, that no more clamor we may have for defect of justice; and how you shall execute this, our writ, you make appear to our justices of our Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, at our Supreme Court to be holden at Philadelphia, in and for the Eastern District, on the last Monday of July next, and have you then there this writ. Witness the Honorable John Bannister Gibson, Esq., Doctor of Laws, Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, the 22d day of May, A. D., 1847. J. Simon Cohen,

Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District.

Judge Parsons having read the copy of the writ, informed Mr. Freed that it would not do: it was no answer to the charge of an escape. He said that the Supreme Court had no right to order the discharge of a prisoner committed under a warrant from this Court! He denied the power of the Supreme Court to act in the case! And he ordered Mr. Freed to give bail in the sum of one thousand dollars for his appearance at the next Court of Quarter Sessions, to answer the charge of an escape!

The Hon. B. Champneys, Attorney General said: That when the first warrant was committed to him, he had carefully examined the precedents, and came to the opinion that the affidavit presented to the Governor was insufficient to hold Brown. He had just completed writing his opinion on Wednesday, the 12th inst., when the Secretary of State informed him that a new requisition

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had been received from the Governor of Maryland, accompanied with a copy of an indictment found on the 10th inst. This precluded further inquiry on the matter. Upon that requisition, he was of opinion that the warrant ought to issue. In the course of his investigation he was forcibly impressed with the circumstance, that if a crime of the ferocity here charged had been committed, that eighteen months should have been allowed to pass by without an attempt to arrest the prisoner. All these circumstances impressed him favourably towards Brown.

Mr. Freed then promptly entered the required bail, and was discharged from custody.

In the meantime, says the Public Ledger of the 25th inst., "Mr Gibbons commenced an action in the District Court at the suit of Isaac Brown, against Alexander Somerville, Thomas C. Wilson, Samuel Y. Harris, and John Zell, for conspiracy. Capiases were issued and the bail fixed at five thousand dollars." The defendants have not been found by the Sheriff. After they heard that the writs had been issued, they prudently returned to Maryland in the first public conveyance.

All these proceedings against Isaac Brown, based, apparently on the laws of the land, were contrived and entered into for the purpose of kidnapping the man! His own statement has been embodied in an affidavit, which we copy from the Ledger of the 25th inst., as follows:

"Isaac Brown being duly sworn, according to law, doth depose and say, that he is detained in the Philadelphia county jail, on a charge of being a fugitive from justice of the State of Maryland, having, as it is alleged, been guilty of an assault and battery upon one Alexander Somerville, in the year 1845, with intent to kill him. Deponent solemnly avers that he never fled from the justice of the State of Maryland, or of any other State, and that he never did commit an assault and battery upon the said Alexander Somerville, but is entirely innocent of said charge. That during the summer or fall of 1845, deponent was informed that such an assault and battery had been committed upon the said Alexander Somerville. That deponent was at that time the slave of the said Somerville, and had the management of a plantation owned by his master, situated about three miles from his master's residence, and that deponent was on the said plantation when he heard of said assault and battery, and at the time it was committed. That as soon as deponent heard of it, he got out his horse to go to the residence of his said master where the said assault had been committed, for the purpose of seeing him. That deponent was soon after arrested by a body of armed men, and charged with the said crime, and put into the jail of Prince Frederick. That deponent was kept in the

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said jail for a period of thirty-three days, during which time his hands and feet were twice bound together, his clothing stripped from him, and two hundred lashes in all were inflicted upon him with a cowskin by a jail-keeper, named, or called Sandy Buck. That the said whippings were inflicted within one week of each other, and that deponent received one hundred lashes on each occasion, although there was no evidence to sustain the accusation against him, and although deponent constantly declared, and now declares, that he was innocent of the said charge. Deponent further says, that having been unjustly confined in the said jail for thirty-three days, he was taken out and sold as a slave to one Samuel Harris, a slave trader, for the sum of five hundred dollars, and that he was afterwards sold by the said Harris to Hope H. Slatter, of Baltimore, for the sum of six hundred and sixty-five dollars, as deponent was informed by said Slatter. That deponent was then taken to the slave yard of the said Slatter, in the city of Baltimore, where he was kept a prisoner for some time, and about the middle of the month of December, 1845, was put on board of a ship at said city against his will, together with one hundred and sixty-nine other persons of color, and sent to the city of New Orleans. That the said ship arrived in New Orleans early in the month of January, 1846, when this deponent was sold with other men to a Planter in the State of Louisiana. This deponent further says, that he did not leave the State of Maryland of his own free will, but was forcibly taken from the said State by the consent and aid of the same persons who now charge him with having fled from the justice of the said State of Maryland, and that the whole proceeding under which he is now detained is, as deponent verily believes, the result of a conspiracy on the part of the said persons to deprive him of his rights and liberty as a citizen of Pennsyvania, in which State deponent has lived for upwards of one year, having his family, consisting of a wife and nine children, in the said State, dependent upon him for support.

ISAAC his X mark. BROWN.

"Sworn and subscribed before me this 22d day of May, A. D., 1847. William McCauley."

If the oath of Isaac Brown be admitted as evidence it appears, that so far from being a fugitive from justice, he was actually sent out of the State against his will! And if any man doubt this, let him refer to the testimony of Thomas C. Wilson, the agent of Slatter, who says that Isaac was in Slatter's slave yard: and who was not permitted to answer the question "did not Mr. Slatter send him to Louisiana, and sell him in that State?" Harris also says, that Isaac was taken from the jail in Prince Frederick, to Slatter's slave yard in Baltimore. It has never been pretended that the man made his escape from Slatter's yard. He was sent out of the State of

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Maryland in chains, and sold by Slatter, or his agent, in New Orleans. Somerville knew this when he made the oath on which the Governor of Maryland based his requisition. Wilson, the agent of Slatter knew all about it--for doubtless the object of his visit to the jail in Prince Frederick, eighty-five miles from Baltimore, in October, 1845, was to purchase Isaac and to convey him to Slatter's yard. And Harris knew it too, the disinterested witness, who travelled one hundred and eighty-five miles to identify Brown, spent day after day in Philadelphia, awaiting his surrender, and fled as soon as he heard of the issuing of the capias against him!

But whether Isaac Brown be guilty or innocent of the assault and battery upon Somerville, it is very clear that he was punished for it under the laws of Maryland in 1845. The witnesses Wilson and Harris both say, that he was in jail in Prince Frederick in October 1845, on a charge of shooting Somerville. How did he get out of jail? Harris says he was taken from the jail to Slatter's slave yard. Wilson says he saw him in Slatter's yard in September or October, 1845. Brown swears that he was taken out of prison and sold, first to Harris for five hundred dollars, then to Slatter for six hundred and sixty-five dollars. The time fixed by the laws of Maryland for holding the Courts in Calvert County, is the second Monday in May, and the second Monday in October in each year. It would seem, then, that the Court was actually in session in Prince Frederick, when Isaac Brown was taken from the jail of that town to Slatter's yard in Baltimore! He wa sin jail upon legal process and could only be taken from it by legal process, issuing from the Court then in session within a few yards of his place of confinement. He received two hundred lashes while in jail, and surely they were legally administered. It may be asked if the Court had any authority to order his sale to Slatter or any other person. The answer is found in the laws of Maryland. The first section of the act of 1818 provides, "that from and after the passage of this law, it shall not be lawful for the Courts of law within this State to sentence any negro or mulatto slave convicted of any crime perpetrated after the passage of this act, to undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary in this State, any law to the contrary notwithstanding."

The 2d section of the same act provides that if any slave shall be convicted of any crime which may not in the discretion of the Court be punishable by hanging, the slave may in the discretion of the Court be sentenced to be lashed on the bare

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back, or the Court may sentence him to be banished from the State by transportation and sale into some foreign country, or some one of the United States--such slave to be valued and paid for as directed by law. (See Dorsey's Laws of Maryland, p. 702.)

Every reader must therefore see, from the law and the facts here presented, that Isaac Brown, whether guilty or not, was actually punished in 1845, under the laws of Maryland, for the alleged assault and battery upon Somerville! He was both lashed and banished "by transportation and sale into" the State of Louisiana, and Somerville was paid for him, "as directed by law." And yet a grand jury of Calvert County, twenty months after the alleged commission of the crime, and eighteen months after Isaac Brown was punished for it, finds a bill of indictment against him, and lends itself to this outrage of Somerville and his confederates, to trick the Governor of Pennsylvania, evade our laws, insult our people, and kidnap the man!

Had Brown been arrested and detained as a fugitive slave, according to the laws of the land, perhaps the circumstance would have created no unusual excitement. But his master lives in Louisiana--the kidnappers from Maryland had no title to him, and the only chance they had to secure their prey and swindle his owner was by means of the fraud that has been exposed. Their purpose was defeated by the writ de homine replegiando, and a citizen of Pennsylvania is held to bail as a criminal, by a Pennsylvania Judge, for not disregarding the process of the Supreme Court of our Commonwealth!

It is humbly suggested, that our laws were not made to oppress the innocent and protect the guilty. The Judge acted under excitement, and therefore rashly. Instead of issuing his warrant against a fellow citizen for an act of duty, he could better have vindicated the dignity of his office by ordering into custody the conspirators who have profaned our temples of justice, by as bold an outrage as ever was perpetrated under color of law.

The case of Isaac Brown shows with what facility any honest citizen of Pennsylvania may be seized under a requisition from the Executive of another State, on some false and malicious charge made by a Somerville or Harris, banished from his native soil, tried among strangers before a foreign tribunal, and convicted and punished by the perjury of those who committed the crime, and who escape by fastening it upon him. It is a lesson to our Governor, our Courts and our People.

Before the war andafter the union

Sam Aleckson was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1852 to enslaved parents who lived with different families. Sam grew up in his father's master's household, where slaves were treated humanely and even taught to read. Although Aleckson and the other slaves in the house were liberated shortly before the Civil War, Aleckson served in the Confederate army. After the war ended, he remained in South Carolina, married, and had ten children. He and his family later settled in a predominantly white rural community in Springlake, Connecticut. According to the title page of his autobiography, Aleckson died in Windsor, Vermont in 1914, fifteen years before the publication of Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography in 1929.

In Before the War, Aleckson describes his memories of growing up in Charleston, memories which include playing with the neighborhood children and home schooling. He also devotes a section of his narrative to a detailed description of life at "Pinetop," a plantation outside of Charleston where he lived during the war. In addition to autobiographical sections, Aleckson's work includes anecdotes and biographical sketches, especially of those people he encountered during his years in slavery. Although he presents a view of slavery that is mild compared to many other slave narratives, he nonetheless offers a sharp critique of slavery as an American institution: "There is nothing good to be said of American slavery. I know it is sometimes customary to speak of its bright and its dark sides. I am not prepared to admit that it had any bright sides, unless it was the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln" (29-30). Aleckson ends his narrative with a description of his family's journey to New England and his favorable impressions of both his northern and southern homes.

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This woman is sadistic and cruel, Jennifer Lynn Petkov and her pussy husband Scott decided it would piss off their neighbor if they taunted the neighbors 7 year old grand daughter. Bad enough, right? I guess I should also mention that the little girl is dying of a brain disease. While I wish no harm to the Petkovs, who live at (redacted by threat of blackmail). I have removed the petkovs address by the request of persons who may remain nameless. But if you want it and live in america you break no laws googling their address and posting it on a blog. If your in the neighborhood you might want to see where they live and let us know where they work.

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I feel sick about this, but maybe I'll have to get used to it. As you all know The Peoples Republic of China owns nearly a trillion dollars worth of U.S. Treasury securities. What you may not know is that China also owns nearly 350 Billion dollars worth of Mexican securities. This is money owed to China, much like a credit card balance shows how much money you owe to Visa or Mastercard. Like Visa or Mastercard, once what you owe becomes nearly impossible to collect on, certain offers may be made to you, to allow you to pay off your debt.Visa, realizing that getting back some of the money they lent to you is better than getting none of it back, will make an offer of compromise. Well guess what folks? China has made an offer of compromise to Mexico. This offer comes with some very serious conditions. And the sovereignty of our nation is being used as collateral.
How we got into this mess will be written about for generations, but in a nutshell we spent our way into a situation where our government is being coerced into settling this debt. Good you say,finally we will be out from this massive debt burden, industry will invest in a reinvigorated US economy. It's a win ,win proposition. So what's the catch?
China needs something in return for their investment in this country, they will not walk away from a trillion dollars with nothing to show for it. China needs food,plain and simple. We have farmland. Mexico has farmers. Put them all together and you have this, Mexico will provide affordable labor to grow crops for the Chinese people on land formerly controlled by America. The US government is negotiating legislation to declare eminent domain over nearly 68 million hectares of land in parts of the states currently known as Arizona,New Mexico,California,Texas. This new territory combined with northern Mexico will be administered by a territorial government, comprised of 3 delegates from the Peoples Republic of China,2 Delegates from the United States of America and 1 delegate from the Federal Republic of Mexico.

Mexamerica as it will officially be called will not be deporting any residents of the territory and after a brief period of martial law, not to exceed three years, the rights and responsibilities of the citizens will be very similar to those they enjoyed by citizens of the USA. I hope you get a chance to read this. I have posted it thrice and each time it gets taken down by unknown agents. Spread the word,more details will be coming and I have linked to these sites CBSNews, CNN,BBC America, XinhuaNews. Verify this,copy what you find to a flash drive,get the word out.

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Star trek was true.

Hundreds of new planets have been discovered by Nasa's new space probe, sparking new hope of life outside our solar system.

Up to 140 of the newly-found planets are rocky and Earth-like containing both land and water, conditions which could allow simple lifeforms to develop.

The Kepler probe - which constantly monitors more than 150,000 stars for tell-tale signs of planets orbiting them - also may have found five new solar systems, Nasa said.

Discoveries: An artist's impression of the Kepler spacecraft, which uses an astonishing 95 megapixel digital camera to look deep into outer space

'While an exhaustive study remains to be done, the implication is that many planetary systems have multiple planets,' William Borucki, the mission's principle investigator said.

The data relates to the first six weeks of the probe's four-year mission after it was launched last year.

Scientists hope the early discoveries will lead to many more, including multi-planetary systems which give life a better chance to evolve.

The Kepler space probe examines distant stars by monitoring the light they give off.

Field of view: The Kepler spacecraft is examining three constellations containing 156,000 stars

New planets orbiting such stars will block radiating light, and this tiny decrease is measured and interpreted to show the size and nature of the objects.

The probe monitors three constellations - Cygnus, Lyra and Draco using a special telescope equipped with a 95 megapixel camera.

To qualify as a 'candidate planet', the telescope must record light being distorted three times to ensure the results are not just an anomaly.

The initial findings mean the number of habitable planets in space could run into millions.

More of the same? The probe has revealed a number of planets, may believed to be similar to Earth

Professor Dimitri Sasselov, another member of the Kepler team, said: 'The next step after Kepler will be to study the atmospheres of the planets and see if we can see signs of life.'

Planets found so far include CoRoT - 7b, a rocky glove almost five times the mass of Earth but with a molten side because it orbits its star extremely closely.

The largest is Wasp-17b, which has a radius of 66,000 miles compared with Earth's 3,963 miles.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1297499/Deep-space-probe-finds-hundreds-new-planets.html#ixzz0uk3SKalM

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Announcing The Winners of the Inaugural "I Decide Winner Gets Blogpost©" Contest.

The crowd is hushed,an eery silence fills the main auditorium at the "I Decide Winner Gets Blogpost© headquarters. Press reporters and assorted fine art devotees are finishing their desserts. Coffee has been served, up on stage a towering figure of manliness is being lowered onto the podium from high overhead. The lights focus a single spotlight on the dashing figure. He lifts his gaze towards the audience as an audible "oooh Ahhh " issues forth from the crowd of nearly nine thousand fans. The moment has arrived. Kevin Sherf himself has graced his legions with a personal appearance, the security force,dogs straining at leashes,attempt to hold back His adoring followers.
Shh! He is about to speak... "Ummm. The cherries were the prettiest and then the moose followed by the Opera singer." OK! There we have it! The Cherries have won, they have pleased Kevin the most! Let's get some reaction from the crowd - Steve Hester what did yo think of the winners?
" TwomoreLonguyislandicedteasplease" great comment Steve. How about you sir? "As the ghost of the lascoux cave painter, I was pulling for the moose to win, but I have enough sense not to question the art deciding thing of Kevin Sherf-Art Decider©." Without further ado. The Winners!

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The I decide winner gets blogpost contest.

Submissions end 8:00 pm Sunday, July 17th, 2010. Remember no photos,kittens,puppies or children.

Remember Blondie?

corvette photos

abstract art art

lighthouse art

chevrolet photos

just thinking on it

> I was a very happy man. My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me...It was her beautiful younger sister.
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> My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tight miniskirts, and generally was bra-less. She would regularly bend down when she was near me, and I always got more than a nice view. It had to be deliberate because she never did it when she was near anyone else.
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> One day her 'little' sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations. She was there when I arrived, and she whispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't overcome. She told me that she wanted me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister.
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> Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a word.
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> She said, 'I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one last wild fling, just come up and get me.'
> I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched her up the stairs. I stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beeline straight to the front door.
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> I opened the door, and headed straight towards my car.
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> Lo and behold, my entire future family was standing outside, all clapping!
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> With tears in his eyes, my father-in-law hugged me and said, 'We are very happy that you have passed our little test. We couldn't ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family.' And the moral of this story is:
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> Always keep your condoms in your car.

Abstract

abstract canvas prints


abstract art

Cakes and Ale.

Here is a true story someone found regarding exams at Cambridge University. It seems that during an examination one day a bright young student popped up and asked the proctor to bring him Cakes and Ale. The following dialog ensued:

Proctor: I beg your pardon?

Student: Sir, I request that you bring me Cakes and Ale.

Proctor: Sorry, no.

Student: Sir, I really must insist. I request and require that you bring me Cakes and Ale.

At this point, the student produced a copy of the four hundred year old Laws of Cambridge, written in Latin and still nominally in effect, and pointed to the section which read (rough translation from the Latin):

``Gentlemen sitting examinations may request and require Cakes and Ale.''

Pepsi and hamburgers were judged the modern equivalent, and the student sat there, writing his examination and happily slurping away.

Three weeks later the student was fined five pounds for not wearing a sword to the examination.

Eye Meds.

magical shoes

I'm a nine!

I was meeting a friend at a bar and as I went in, I noticed two pretty girls looking at me.
"Nine." I heard one whisper as I passed.
Feeling pleased with myself, I swaggered over to my buddy and told him a girl had just rated me as 9 out of 10.
"I don't want to ruin it for you," he said, "but when I walked in they were speaking German."

inadvertent UFO

fss ufo, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

I shot my first UFO pic. I didn't mean to. Just happened. Ok,here we go, two years ago I took some pics , I overexposed by two f-stops underexposed by 2 and shot a proper exposure. I was going to combine them in Photoshop. Gonna make a pretty picture. So today I was going through some old pics,stumbled across these and combined them in Photoshop,so far so good. I wanted to clone away some white spots.I zoomed in and saw thie UFO. I don't believe in UFO's but here it is. I checked the original exposures and it is in them too. So anyone want a genuine UFO pic? Go to http://fineartamerica.com/featured/ufo-inadvertent-kevin-sherf.html

Look at the zoom box that is second from the right and second from the bottom.

Three Roses

Howdy, I received a request to explain how I made 3roses. Okay, here we go. Using a Canon EOS XS camera with a 50mm f1.8 lens I shot three roses at the Ocean City Flower Show.

Using Photoshop I adjusted levels,and curves.Changed the Image size and ran Fractalius plugin. Simple,5 minutes.

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contemporary digital art

building photos

flower photography

philadelphia prints

philadelphia prints

red canvas prints

New Jersey Prints

new jersey prints

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/steam-tractor-kevin-sherf.html

Link to contemporary photography

contemporary photos

Same tulips different layer

Same tulips different layer, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

Same tulips different layer.

flowers photos

Pretense or Vision...

fractalius20100403_tulips_0234, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

I'm not so sure this is just some pretentious crap from a talentless hack.I didn't go to The Sorbonne or even The Cayahuga County Community College Art program but I'm thinking this picture is artisitic . So think what you will, I like these tulips even if I did Photoshop them to within an inch of their lives.

Before it is too late...

Before it is too late..., originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

Help save the historic Cape May NJ Lighthouse. Careful observers have noticed a slight bending of the structure.
Sure the parking area is well lit at night, but I have a feeling that the light shooting off into space might attract aliens who will eat us.

Ocean city flower showsunflower oil (46 of 273)

Ocean city flower showsunflower oil (46 of 273), originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

Sunflower at the Ocean City Flower Show.

Ocean city flower show (145 of 273)

Ocean city flower show (145 of 273), originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

Ocean city flower show (65 of 273)-Edit

Ocean city flower show (65 of 273)-Edit, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

cape may zoo rooster

cape may zoo rooster, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

cape may zoo roosterTA

cape may zoo roosterTA, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

Yummy rooster at Cape May Zoo

HDR_yellowbayclouds copy

HDR_yellowbayclouds copy, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

HDR pic taken at Cape May..

20100403_tulips_0245 copy

20100403_tulips_0245 copy, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

"When Tao is lost, there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is justice. When justice is lost, there is ritual. Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion."

tree

tree , originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

3 panel panarama birch grove park canon eos rebel xs 50 mm 1.8 cheap lens

philly pa

philly pa, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

twisted dune light and tufts

twisted dune light and tufts, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

quizpic

quizpic, originally uploaded by korvinsnerf.

You think you are so smart ! Well where is this pic taken from? It's within a 5 mile radius of somers point. first correct answer wins a mystery prize. Are you brave enough to try?