The people's journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1850-1857, March 31, 1854, Image 1

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VOLUME 6.
THE ET ORLE'S JOURNAL
PUDLISTIED EVERY FRIDAY 'HORNING
BY BAUM & AVERY.
Terms:
One copy per:anuli, in advance.. $l.OO
Village subscribers per a ninumill advance, 1.25
RATES 011 , ADVKILT.ISING.-011C. Fqw:re,• or
twelve Hoes or. Jess, will be inserted theca
times for one dollar; for evt ry robscquent
insettien, twenty-five cents will he c h a r g ed
atul fizurd work will inrnrinbly be
charged dottldo these rotes.
[These terms will be strictly adheyrd to
Frain the viiiiaaelphia 1) Lily ...........
Prohibitory Liquor Laws--The Right
of Searcy and Seizure.
Thecnemies of prohibition have been
Mighty elated (or a few days past, by the
reports of the decision o( the Suprenie
Court of Massachusetts, adverse to the
icamstitutionality of the •prOhibitory law
of that State. In Boston, the friedas•ol
the rum truffle burnt an enormous quan
tity of powder, and fired. three hundred
and sixty-five guns in honor of the'de
cision. As the telegraph wires carried
imperfect intelligence of the event to - all
parts of the country, bar-rooms rang
w i t h th e shout s or toper nod trafficker.
Not a huge b-er saloon, or by -WV,
underground grog shopi . in this slat - , has
remained ignorant m . te ref o:t that the
Maine Law was lakilten down in Masta
ohusetts„ and the decision has been
" affirmed" with all due gravity, by the
lti,ghts of the toddy-stick and i':e trem
bling veterans of King Alcohol's bench.
Men who have gravely contended for•
the constitutional rights" to sell poison
aid get drunk, exclaim with ecstacy,
told you it would he so."
But these rejoicings, firing of guns;
treating of topers, and resolving to have
free trade," have all been premature.
The powder and the extra << treats" are
all tvasted-Lgone for naught. The con
stitutional scruples of men who oppose
the right of search and seizure, have
rec,ived no omfirmation from the Su
preme Court of the, old Bty State. The
decision is not against the law—it is not
against the -right of search, not against
the right of seizure, confiscation, and
destruction. 'fiteso parts of the law arc
strengthened by the decision: They ore
virtually pronaimced valid, and such as
any community may pass for its protec
tion. Justice Shaw says :
Tho net 'he compe - er(y
of ture i t dt ,:ere the p..51.,-Nbi
cer.aiu f operty to he uu:ay.44l.
and to provbb , by due proct s. ,f 1; \V r
nbutetn-nt cif th- to:is-owe : n 1 the .t
of tint atfei itcr. Th • COM I cue to iiic c'iu
chvd•til thlt the : 0 1 ill Of
by the s , attoe, :we f.ri:ici , ::s:e•tent th.•
prim
• th• - V•thioli,ll , ll
/MS of iTll'l9 , llid , liev inlvt,d( e 1 f.)r the sprutity
of public mu/ private ri;zias, and t•epuguaht
to the provisiunb of th- 1,1,1 of aid coil
stitutiou of this l:01111thnINN I' that it W. 13
711 , t Within th, rot Me 1,;.:1 , 1,tur0
them the iflrels of Lew. nod must the ref cc Le
iteLl tucoostit utiount and voht."
In soppert of till thet foiiutsiug
reasons are given:
"1. The in: ::sures Airs ct, d I.v thr
section IX Ibis :tut are i t h•iiof the 1 : 1 he
article of thee bill of l'init article de
Glares th.tt every sul.ject Lto a t i ht to Le
secured from all out casona Wes earelt.:s
seizuresll r
(V, p, r..ty. his leay-.0,.. his pqr, rd,
and 811 his passessio:;. All art:tuts. Ile, re.
fore, ure contrary to this ti 11, if the fun rite
aim of th , tti be out itrv% lattslv strip..riv‘l icy
mit or afiirntri*.o•, Cr. 1: ii ,•
of the v. - .lrrltets is tot so -ui.po no
rt,-d is swy—
]. Because the :eel dues not I.( riti:t.e. th e
three persons, %%leo ure to nck:: cc utiehiiiit, to
state that they lea% c t 5,15011 to be :e, c. to,el d o
believe. that isooxitvoing air Itt.i.t or
ilepoqitetl anti intender( tor sate I.v see person
warted; tier dues it re quire the ina:tistrate tee
state iu hid 'A - arrant to the Fearch:ng officer,
the 'name of any per.zon„belie eel to be the
owner or lively•l• of sack il , i•eors, r tome'
e f any r T.Oll lrtciag (lee vet steuly iyeyetesshoti
there. t, ueir the name uerto , rson itavlng the
betoteliuo to soll the 5 1111
f. It I. 110 t /thiit the (Juicer ' s authority
an I right of ii,tizure, to the articles described,
by tiliztlitity. or Incrks; tior (loos it
even rust] ict the officer's power-of scizor e to
Ics.pt and . intended to be seld ; althon;4ll
it is the at owed pni,..oK of the act to uE,ke
the k(cpieg of slob liquors. unlawful, ;Intl
subject them to forfeiture.
3. Again, if the tint e per,ons state fin ir
Intel that any spitituou4 liquors are kept or
ilepo,ited and inletab d for Nile, C., in any
store, sing), or yrarehou,.% or its any mean: boat
or other vt ssel, tir in ;toy vohich*, of .iti any
building or place, ' ,Kt . .. thou the wat rant shall
awl then the slierill . or «Ihs'nble khan
pu..ec.l Ip set:lti the pt . ,' t es—that the
store . , vessel, or place described, nod If any
spirituous liquors ar , thittui therein, he shell
et•itu ITinier thi4 provision,: it
,heliovul liquor,: /night Le seized - which were
not designed for sale, v.-ere held legally, or
eicssigurbil for export to foreign e ,,u n t e i es .
The gist of the whole decision is, that
the proceedings before the search and I
seizure, are net in accordance with the
bill of rights respecting the exemption
from unreasonable searches. The oaths,
rind the descripticrts of articles to be
searched'for, are not suffl:iently guarded
and limited—not minute enough in their
designation of articles to he seized. The
whole decision t. bath this extent, no
more." As•we have before intimated,
the - principle of the prohibitory law is
affirmed, settled, made secure in 'Massa
chosetts. It may have rendered it more
difficult to get an exact form of warrant
and correct- mode of search ; but it can
be done, and will be tone. The Htm.
%Ns -Choate., -an authority 'fully as good
as Justice Shaw himself, tong ago gave
his' opinion_ that the law • is perfeelty
constitutional as it now is. So thinE
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DEVOTED. TO THE PRINCIPLES •OF:DEMOCRACY, AND TUE DISOSEMINATION .
OF, mciRA.LITr. LITERJOTOTIE• AND NEWS:
many or the best lawyer 4 of New Eng
land. We think the Judges were quite
as nice as .Liquor kept in grog
shops. in all sorts of_ve.sels, is. not easily
described. The poison takes every shape,
"monstrous and vasW l and lurks in ves
sels of all kinds; colors, and 'Sizes, from
a tierce to a pint jug'or lather dup.' But
Yankee ingenuity is as " cute", in law
as in whittling, and will 'frame • act
that will do the work, even more ellect
ually than it has ever been done.
It would hmie been singular indeed if
Judges of the Supreme Court of Massa
chusetts had decided against the seizure
and confiscation of rum, thereby making
alcohohc poison the only article in the
World sdcred from such a process. Not
a - State -in the 'Onion exists without
similar laws,, confiscating articles 'under
certain. circumstances. Rhode Island
confiscates-4 fiAertuatt's bnat,seine, and
all apparatus, if he be a citizen of Mas
s-tchusetts found _fishing in, the- Seckouk
river, that divides the two Sites for
some d:siance. !Phcise confiscated arti
cles can be sold or . destroyed, at the
option of the authoriMas. In the same
St to the article salteratus, mixed with
chalk, for the purpose of cheat, is con
fiscated and destroyed. In Mastachu
setts, and, we think, all New -England, a
pecflar must have a license in order' to
st-li certain kinds of goods, nod if he
violates the law, his goods, horse, W agora,
and-all, are confiscated.
In'New-York, if liquor be Sold to any
of the - Seneca Indians, and a' gun or
other article pawned, the article is for
feited and the pawnee has it to pay' fur,
with a fine besides. And, above all, the
laws of the United States lung since
sanctioned the seizure and destruction of
liquor when,it was kept for the purpose
of sellin g to certain Indian tribes; and
that law has" repeatedly been executed.
The general oovernment rrAignizes the
same principle in numerous instances,
and always has, from the foundation of ,
the government. The right to search
for :and seize counterfeiters' tools and
machinery, and gambling instrumenis,
has never been disputed in auy Stee,
unless where gamblers and counterfeiters
are the majority of society. With what
consistency, then, %conld a court pro-\
nounce this liquor confiscation, or search
and seizure, unconstitutional ?
Much has been said -about the expe
dieucv of passing n ptohibitury law in
this S we, without Ch,! right of search.
In oar opinion it would be as efFecival as '
the play of !Fleet with the character of
Hamlet left out. It would not amount
to a - prohibitory law, unless provisions
"even More obnoxious (to the rum seller
and ruin drinker, especially.) were pot
ut is place. A grog shop might stand
on every corner and men come reeling
ont, the walking, disgusting proof of the
vile trade within, and . unless search
could be made for the hideous monster,
it could not .he stopped. The drunken
Witness would forget, if brought on,the
stand, that he ever drank any liquor
there ; over and over again have we
witneised this kind of perj•try in such
cats s. The " best proof" is the liquor
itself, and the best use of it to b,. turned
into the streets and swallowed by old
mother earth, for she would purify• it
•and not het drunk'on it. The vitality of
any prohibitory law is the right of gbing,
to the' fountain of the evil--:-the rum bar
rel and to e.vrenie it.
Men talk of law as if it s was a dicta
tion what they _should keep in - their
houses, or what they should eat and
drink. No law that has ever been
paszed on the subject has ever attempted
to do any such thing. It leaves private
houses unmolested, and does not. pretend
to dictate what a person shall eat or
drink, any more than a law to prey' - ni
the sale of unwholesome meat or vegeta
b;es declares that no vegetables or meat
shall be, eaten. A man has afl the
t. rights " to eat putrid flesh that he has
to drink whislv. The law will not in
terfere with him in either case, so long
as he offers it to no one else. If . be, is
complained of for constantly offering un
wholesome food for sale, the law will
take means to bring him to an account
for it. When it does this, the criminal
Would only be laughed tit for asserting
that the law interfered With the right of
men to cat what
.they pleased. There
is no argument against the Maine Law,
but what 'strikes _ a blow at other laws
involving the same principles, including
the right'of search, seizure, confiscation,
and destruction of the pois On.
Home for Actual Settlers.
One of the measures which the Free
Democratic party desires to-ellect, is, the
granting- of 80 or 160 acres of Govern
ment land to every landless pan, willing
to settle upon and cultivate such land.
With the growth of our party, _this
measure is growing in strength. ,It is
manifeit that if, the. Government freely
gives-bland, in small .quantities, to the
landleis, the,small farmers will be
,en-
couraged . to,goort the national domain,
and pre-occupy he lands,lo the preju 7
dice of the great planters and their
scores of unpaid laborers. -This,-is. the
ground of the hostility of the South; bat
O.OIIDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., IV/ARCH"3I, 1854.
it most be said; to the, honor of. sortie
Southern members .of Congress, that
they have-put this argument aside, and
supported the.nieasure - on' the ground of
its justice and expediency,in spite of dui
objections .which Slavery:urges. -
No more. yuly . .benevolent measure
has ever, been proposed in Congress.
It' doe's - injury- to no one; while it confers
a large and fasting gOod upon a class
wlw-need and deserve. the fostering care
of the General government.:. It appears
like a gift, at first thought ;,but",a little
consideration shoWs it ,to be otherwise.
The land is of no value to the Govern.
went, as it .lit;s .. u.noccupied ; and its
occupation by,aquat,settlers' would, in a
few years. put into the National Trea
sury;.by the increase - of the receipt of
customs: and the 'general increase -of
commerce and wealth- 4 - a.much larger
sum thari..the per acre,if- held by
the Government till, a, purchaser were.
found-Tor
We hope this measure '~rili find its
way 'through 'Congiess this winter.—
Detroit. Ree
Frorn,the Independent \Vhig
NEAtt LANCASTER, March Bth, 1851
MR. EETIOR:::-I Send you herewith a
manuscript this day received from the
author, with a reqtfest that I -sliduld
have it inserted :in such newspapers
as have an extensive circulation iu our
interior couuiies.
'The writer exiiress.e's himielf as un
used to new paper composition, but de
sires. earnestly that this small tribute
from him, in oppo:itioci 'to the accom
plislnem of Ali:. iutatnous Nebras.- - .1,:a out 7
rare, may - be extensively read by our
citizens.
The name of the writer is with me,
*and though he is personally unknown
to me, yet I am assured, not only by his
name, (a name of winch the old Domin
kit has some reason . to be proud,) but
also by the high standing of the gentle
man who introduces him.to - me, that his
opinions ete worthS..of great regard. •
But, ho'ing been for more than twen
ty-five years thoroughly conversant.with
the movements of the mimics. of Slave
ry in the North, I, of course, cannot as
sent to his charges against them ; neither
du 'I find in that series of outrages, called
the compromises of 1830, any cause of
rejoicing on the part of the friends of
universal Freedom.
'Vile gentleman should know, and he
would know, 'if he lived here, that the
old stories that the people of the North
who, note or in past . iinies, have been
opposed to Slavery, have sent emissaries
to the South, to stir up the Lo•to
sum:Clio/1, are completely exploded, and
no one who pretends to any intelligence
will attempt to reiterate them.
'The writer it seems is no abolitionist ;
he is, however, wide awake to the
great evil of the extension of Slavery,
and I trust his faithful warning may not
be lost upun our citizens, but that we
may, indeed, be aroused ere it is too
late, to utter our indignant protest against
this most high-handed outrage.upon our
rights as freemen, and upon that solemn
agreement, entered into by, our prede
cessms, not to seller this institution, at
war alike with the justice of Heaven
and the laws of Nature, to extend itself
farther North•than it therrexisted.
•
Tours Truly, J. CI.
To the Citizens of Pennsylt,ania:
The following- lutes are penned by a
man of Southern birth, whose interests
whether of property or family are en
tirely Southern. lie is conscious that
he differs from the general sentiment
here which inclines , to accept a fancied
boon now offered. by Northern Politi
cians; but he is deeply impressed with
the-danger. to all sections, and particu
larly to the South which will follow the
disturbing of questions formerly settled,
and desires to give utterance to his sen
timents, however feebly, in opposition
to the extension- of Slivery beyond its
present,limits.
When, after the Mexican treaty was
ratified by the President and Senate of
the United States, a vast territory was
acquired in the - West, the momentous
question was forced - uporr the Country .
for adjustment, whether it should be al
lowed to carry slaves and hold then),
there. The difficulty of a .settlement
was increased by the course Which bad
_ been pursued systematically' by many
wizens in the North and West, for a
number of years, under the influence of
a mistaken zeal. They flooded the ta
bles of Congress with memorials calling
upon them to pasi,measures . which they
hriclnciconstitutional authority to do and
which the Southern people deemed of
fensive and even dangerous to them.
'r / hey used the Post yifiCes, they paid
errussarilo to scatter discontent among
our slave population—they iiolentlY op
_posed the master who purstied Cite "per
sons held to service or labor!'*'Arrd forci;
bly, prevented their:delivery to "the par
ty
. j. O whom such-service. or Jabor may
lie'due." 6 ; The sentherogOliid was ex ,
aiperatedthe - dlisiilutiOn of the Union
seemed at hand. But strong minds and
•: patiiotio hearts lent . their-powerful aid,
and . is t.e:session of 18,49-=-1850,.a-sv.
-
ties of important ineasures, commonly
called the ComprOmise was .passed.—
The.principalyereHiese"; •
California;in her entire length and
breadth, was admitted as one" State With
! 2 - constitbtion 7orbiddin‘4 : s f avery,.
Sale of 'slaves forbidden in the District
o iv f h•
F C o : a l gy et ? n2 i
vt b ie i i a e;lofi e l ! .(a c e e l
ar p s.l t ; t d iz . s there , of
'Texas boancla'ry adjusted.
rhe extensive wild country acquired
from Nlexico,to he organized into Terri
torial Governinerits,; And whenpossesscil
of pop'pla4ion to be; admitted
as States ;Witli Without 'Slavery into
the' LiniorVaS I.lleiP constitution THEN
framed might provide.
It was and is'noW-eiti4isively believed
that slavery having been prohibited in
that country by Mexico, it would sn
pass into. the possession of the. United
States, and continue subject to the same,
-unless' the said cop.ditions . were changed
by Congress; and' accordingly, several .
attempts were made- to induce Congress
to interfere. Some proposed to extend
the line of the Missouri Compromise act
of 1820, viz: 09 deg. :30 min.. of north
latitude, westward to the. Pacific ; others,
to declare that thd land was acquired -by
ear - 1)(mM eflorts and treasure, and all cit
izens had. equal, rights to remove there
huh properly, but all -such prop
.osi!iiins were voted down, Northern
members could not then be induced to
yield anything. by which' they would
sanction the introduction.of slavery the;re.
But southern pride then unnsually 'sen
sitive, was alscrsayed the
_humiliation of
the ."`lN'llmot. Proviso. The utmost that
Congress - would . do, wars . . when Mr.
Seule's motion toalloef,,that ifat the time
for applying for aimiisien into the Lin : .
ion a constitution
..shbuld be presented - ,
allowing slavery, .such State should, not
withstanding. be.adenitted: •
The nation having . paS.ied through a
perilous agitatioa, accepted these meas
ures as a settlement, and hoped for a IC.
turn of-peace and harmony, when we
arc astonished by a preposition.to abro•.i
gate the Missouri CompromSse of iti2o •
and admit slavery into Nebraska north
of :13 deg.. :30 min.—and by the an
nobucement that. it has the support of
the President and his administration.
The refusal of Congress, in ISSO, -to 1
change. the straws of the country ac-
haired from Mexico, .was a gieat 'point
gained ibr the non slaveholding portion
of our union. Pew sktveholders , will
carry slaves there, and settle plantations
with such uncertainty of home- able to
hold them, and
coo 'lto , will h.: filled•!
t., 1 : by the hardy population of the North
and by European emigrants friendly to'
the equal rights of mankind. California
twat a sufficient proof of this. Should
,the peopling of these countries. be
fected under the circurnstanCes; now 1,
supposed, it requires no prophet to fore
-6.11 that in the constitutions they would
present to Congress slavery would find
no favor.
Let no one blind you by deceitful
declarations that this is a question of no
practical itripoitance, for that staves-Will
.not be carried into Nebraska.and Kansas
is too far north—its products are not
profitable enough. Believe them
. not.
Nebraska and Kansas he just west of
Missouri, and that new State has alleady
one hundred thousand slaves. . Look at
the fertile belt of country
_nearly in the
' same latitude-eastward to the Atlantic.
It contains, Tennessee, Kentucky, 'Vir
ginia, and Maryland—a • region, where
slave labor in the fertile portions is found'
profitable, and from the poorer portions
of which thousands of slaves are annu
ally sent, to people other regions, but,
alas! without diminishing this number
of.our black 'population.
Pennsylvanians bu 'aroused. A da
ieolinaltin,g to force; through
Congress ri
pre new to the country
da
ring effae - t i
a s a
now
b e fore the people have had time to ex
amine s and condemn it. - A'*setnble in
your counties, in your towns and villa-.
ges, without distinction of party, and let
your representatives in Congress be
without the excuse that they wefle igno
rant of alto public 'sentiment., Warn
them that you cannot be deceived and
will Apt . be betrayed. . .
A LOVill OP • THE limo's.
Prince William County, - ,
March 1.
"Eipres►ions in the Constitution *of the
Unitjd
Pieparalions for War.
The preparations foe war are unceas
ing, but.call for no special detail. The
workmen labor in the navy yards night
and day, and each ship as fitted hastens
tujoin the rendezvous at Spithead. , The
crews of the'fleet are daily practiced in
gunnery and mini .rnance.uvers. No
day is appointed for tho • sailing of the
fleet for the Baltic. The ' , Queen' will
review the fleet ere Fits ddparture. In
the:land.service all is lativity. Volun
tary enlistment keeps .the ranks full, and
Government is, on its.part,doing'all that
can be .done for the •gootlnf the men'
An extra supply. of underclothing
provided, pnyisions of• - tho -besrqualityf
I r •
Medical and stirgical - atteaance of . the
best •that has ever been sent: inter the
- field—Spiritual consolation for the differ-
pot, sects is provided—and last, not least,
as an . Englishman is naught without his
fee'..r, 4 contract has been entered into to
Sup Ply the-camp :in- Turkey with the
best quality of Porter at threepence per t
quart—hallprice. Beyond this parental
Uotrerrimeot ceuld , not go. —ear: 7'rib.,
the (teal Issue.
Slaveholding is ehlterai naturnt righ!
to.be prote'cted by civil government, a
right ,whiCh legislation can not take .
away, Or
. else it Is a crint;itutfact;to
saptires.sed by civil - gos'ernment, and
which legislation' cantle , . legalize.
No middle, ground. between the,two
propositions can be tenable, as will air-
pear - from the, follewing:
SI-iVehblding either -is or it is not -a
Mittirnl. : .right. If it is not, a natUrsl
right, then• it is an unnatural wrang; a
~violation dr natural _law, a crime. Cut
ifit is audtural right, then it is no! inor
ally ;, it_ . is an innocent and law
ful act, entitled to" the saran protection
with atl ether innocent'andlawful acts. •
•
• Civil gwv.rnment is - charged with the
duty of pr'Accting• what is innocent an.i
lawful, and of suppressing that which is
inheretnly: unktwCul and criminal: h
has no lati:cul authority either to punith
in'noct•nt, or forbear to punish
what.is criminal. .
It cannoi.rnalie innocent acts
nor criminal acts lawful, Its province
is not to ninkc certain acts, criniinal no.l
others only riccfccre
is criininarand siippr, , ss it, what is in
nocent and protect-it. And the validity
of its -duclarations. anti acts' depeni
_
upOn their truthfulness and equi
ty, I This is only n repetition of the
knowo and time-honored axioms of coin
mon law, ot : the foundation principles of
democracy; of the plain teachings.of thy
are; shut up to the necessity &"
either deolitring that-slavery cannot L.
legalized.: or that it cannot br legatty
INTiicit ground- Litati ' l / 4 ‘t:
take ?'
The slave party are.theady
to take the latter -po.,6tien. The party
offreedom if they would meet the trkie
issue ; rnus . t take the twiner. On no
Otherlissue' can the question ever be per
manenthr settled.- Winericmt Jubihe.
Mffl===
711,1)e ladies of our neighboring
of ..tHinnee, have forwarded to Stepht n
A. Douglas the folloWing letter accou:•
panied with 30 pieces of silver—bri7lii
newthree-17ent pieces. Ile has only to
go out and lion . ; himself, and Lite parall, I
between hiM and -his
. prdtutype will LC
complete.
7'o
,Silifp4en. Donglai
WeOle undersigned, wifes, mothers,
and ilaughti:rs of Stfirlz Co , Ohio, feel
ing o—ateful -that our boasted "land of
the free and home of the brave" is yr:
so free that; \VEIITE husbands, sons and
brothers_ can vet enjoy their own liberty.
aro yet induced to present to you Life
enclosied thirty peters of Silver."
If Judas was worthy of his reward fir
betraying °nein whom he had full con
fidence in his power to extricate himself
from the hands. of his crucifyers, then
Much more are yon worthy of this re
ward, (if nO office of emolument be of
proffered You) . for this betrayal of lib
erty,•for this attempt - to-cast into hands
more brutal , than Jewish crucifyers, thou.
. nds" . of Unoffending, iyealc: and helpleis
'fathers and mothers, husbands'an'd
sons and daughters, accused of
no infractiOn of religious or civil law,
and whose blood is called for by, no mad'
dened popUla.ce, but by cold blooded
avarice and the worst'of passions.
Without portraying this horrid pic
ture further, may you receive the-en
closed'" peices 9f silver," as a tes ;
timony or Our
.rfgard, and- era you fol
low the last aet of Judas, may.you re
pent' in deepest sackcloth; this most ne,-
farions.betrayal of liberty - . Signed by
103 ladies. ;
AlliariCe,,Maiah 1, Slavcry
Builc. .! •
Thetilwalkee Ftigitive Stave Cul).
Great excitement ! 'he Kidnap.
per Discharged the the United
r '..stales Jadge!
The MiltVaalree Free Democrat gives
full particuOrs of - the arrest and• rescue
of the' alleged fugitive slave, Jotbun
Glover. It says :
daVe-catcher, Deputy Marshal
Carney, of Racine, and a Mr. Holton,
living 14 miles west, of Racine—who
was expecting to be next Senator from
that e ounty--whom he 'had. taken into
his service,; had been in consultation for
a Week or two, as to the best means of
kidecappincli Glover. Deputy Marshal
Carney had undertaken -to :kidnap • a
small sized 'Colored woman a c'da y oritwO
previous, hut the' preseated.rt hcirse pis
tol to hislace, !nnd told 'him to make
quid:Ain-to or. she would blau, his brains
out =.whereupon- Carney 'pit out and
ran for dear life: • ' I
Bred . by a t%;aalanrihei : kiJnnpping
NIIIIII3ER 46:
.guntrr planned a kheMeici • aritrap 'Me
yer. They got hold of:a miserabfe
col
ored man, named Turner, liquored him
'tip, - eupplfed huh with liquor :int:cards
and sent hinfop to
_get Glover drunk,
and be on haud to open the door when
they came at night to take 'him:•
Turcer did as - requested ; got .Pliver
into the house of a colored neig bar - I - but
Glover sparingly. About O'cladk
in the evening, Deputy 'Carney, • and
Hol on, of Rac;neolie er•aitil
his -onfrer. Marshal Cotton. of this city,
kut,cked at the door, The owner said,
let us open the, door tiff we
!:: t a.v who they L'ut `Turner, tho
n&cdrding to promise. rore and
the door, and. they. alkushedig,
,n 1 I Deputy Carney, with a strong club,
strtick.Gloret on:his head,as he was sit
ting in his chair, and felled. him to,,tho
This waS•tite, first serace or pi.oteis
in Ale . by deputy Marshal Cairleyi.unillir
inner( • 'States ' authority. This club,
covered with blood, and hair frofil-P.IF
v is head, is in possesaioh of the criend3
of freedom, at Racine, and Will' b.:!' "a
swift wituess._ against 1115 kid na ppera.
.As soon, as this - event teas kno w ti at.
Iliciae,,the bells 'were - rung,' and 'great
ev•ileMtnt ewited.; Parties .started off
in pursuit. and 'we:renot oil night, search
different- directions. When it
telegraphed to- Racine that Glover
hal been lodged in jtil;a.-large•mgeting
Jit the citizens appointed
,one Itundt:4l
dl legates to proceed• by - steam boat .to
. 1 / 2 1 iwaukee with the Sheriff Mid a War
i it for the art est,of Gardner and.hiq as
;i:riants for the assault on Glover..
qrheo the Racine dele,Tates arrived tit
'.l,'%vankne, a body of 5000 men — were
In council, and great 'excitement—pre
v hied, The /lieut.) era: says, A' tile heart
all I voice of the mukitude were as the
heart and voice of one,niaff." •
The Free Deinocral says :
As WO were leaving, a rush was
In tic for the j.iii. A man quickly kicked
is the outer door. broke
tl.rougVa the wall by the side ofthe guard
d or, lifted with iron and strongly bolted,
the -castings 'were removed, and the
(foar taken out—the cell door was soqn
acd, and iii about fifteen minutes the
i,urier was brought out amid great
cis grin,, placed in a two horse bug-
mid taken to. :Walker's . Point
iir.117 . ,e in daub!: prick time . ---the crowds
in the streets - from the Court House to
the bridge cheering him. At the bridge,
(;:over kft this buggy and', took another,
atid soon disappeared!:
A Baffle in thy Unrki
'On the 17th of February a conflict
tuok place by mistake between two cot.
mums of the Russian army. •The - Perk.
isit positions are extended' in an easterly .
direction as far as-the village of Cuiper
&fa, which is about a mile distant . froth
.!s:ilafat. For several days the Turkish
4,000 strong, under the command
of Col. Miroisi, had been posted in front
or this village and irr the direction of the
t'l.sion. outposts. On this corps the
na,siatis determined to t make -an .on=
-fright during the night of the lath.
For this purpose two Russian columns
tv , re brought up, cmch from 4,000 to
5,00) strong, one by the road which
le.,ds to Kilafat from about the village of
Scdb.nti, and the other from the leftside
of it from about Poisna, - (Prince Miloseh's
property,) to advance unexpectedly upon
the Terkiz, to surprise, inclose them, add
cut i them to pieces. The Russian col- .
•
uaniis dormnencenheir - march at i)o'clock•
in tile morning, and by 4'o'clock reached
a (po=ition from vvhence they were only
btu . , .an hour's march from the Turkish
p;clcets. ,The second column seems
ciq/er to have missed the direction by
iii;staking the road, or to have come up
ling after its time. Be this as it may,
the.latter column, in the obscurity Of
foggy nigbt • concluded the former one to
be a - boiy of hostile Turks, and instantly
opened upon them-a terrific ,cannonade,
which the ethers, With • labored tinder'
the same mistake, returned With . yet
more deadly effect. Pressing - lotvard
each atj2er,. it came ere long, to aicinee
lire of. small arms. This ill-ornend comw
b.it r:lsted fei am\hour and.a half,
w!.ea' day dawned, the . combntautts.Lantv
Iv Ica horror the,etnr they haci,comrpi4d,
The . toSs in kilied . and.wounded • i n the
Ours'? of this night's encounter is reek . -
' oned, by the Russians theinselYes,..at
several hundredi. The Tatrite were
natal-till, alarmed at every - point; and
t which - is but
. n league and a
frill distant, Omer Pasha, on hearing the
cannonade, took all the requisite rnea.s
urvs for defense. The,' Turkish eon's
stattened at 'Cuiverceni stood to arm in,
i a Imess for action at any moment, big
did not 'advance, - as it was at a loss to
imagine, or comprellend.:mtdt - the Rus
sians were about, murdering, one another
iii'"th3t. style. - Was , not titr, hetWeen
7 and S A. M. that the Rtissian
withdrew to their, ,respective
carrying, their wounded along with dial.
Asia we are quite destitute of
ridvii•es.--,N. P. nazi 14: ' .
• Ttke 19tiret!vo of the ptionolnevvepapersis
tuba;beoinitinp gi taied, all over the coupyii
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