Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-02-21

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"The facts strike US as presenting bold.
palpable, aggravated riot--so terrible in its
features, SO dangerous in its character and
tendency, that if suffered to pass with i'm
punity, it will prove the worst blow that
eyer was inflicted in this Commonwealth on
the great and cardinal principle of the sa-
premacy Of the laaU-a principle which has
been in time past, still is, and we trust will
long CONTINUE u Be, Warmly cakHefshsd ~
the great mass of the people of this country y
The Judge said this when the girls were
before him-girls Of ten, twelve, and six
teen years. And again
"Much may depend on the result of this
case, in the settlement of the question wheth-
er in this community we really enjoy in
our persons and property, the security guar
anteed by the Constitution of the State, or
whether we must pass under the reign Of
mobs and mob law"
Mobs of little girls: mobs of girls of ten
years and girls of sixteen, you will remem-
ber-mobs of White Slaves, who would not
violate the Law of Pennsylvania, and work
twelve hours day. .-...
O. Savages of Fort Du Quesne, you
scalped your captive women with knife,
and dashed their brains out with a club.
But here is Judge who scalps little girls
with Blackstone, and impales children of
twelve years with claw of England"
After the girls were convicted, and Gas is
to be supposedly snugly lodged in jail, the
following letter was handed to the Judge.
1t is worthy of perusal.
"To the Hon. &c. &c. ..
Sir-The undersigned manufacturers
of Pittsburgh, deeming that your charge
to the Jury, in the late riot case, will greatly
tend to uphold peace and order, enforce
supremacy of the law, and prevent the ca
lamity of destructive violence, and bloody
outrage by mobs in this Commonwealth,
would respectfully ask copy fit for pub
hCation.
Your obedient servants,
Kennedy, Childs g. Co., Penn Mill.
BlackstocE, Bell & Co., Pitt Mill.
King, Penmock & Co., Eagle Mill.
Pollard Nc Cormack, Hope Mill.
Morshsad, Copeland & Co., Union Mill.
James A. Gray, Allegheny Mill.
IlLlSDuTSu, Jan. ~, 1O4S.
There is no need of any comment. Let
every mother in the land peruse that letter.
Let her think of the girls in Jail, and of the
six fFactory owners of Pittsburgh, thus
publicly thanking the Judge for their con-
viction. There IS another thought which
may help reflection. Last August one
Thomas Loue was arrested as participant
in the alleged riot. He was poor and
friendless. Of course he was cast into pris-
on. There he fingered until November,
when just enough life was left in him, to
totter from the Jail to a hospitable shelter.
It was said in Court that ''he died of the
Prosecutors OATH" But the Prosecutor
did not mention his name once, during the
trial. He was dead. He had been made
a corpse because the Factory owners of
Pittsburgh had determined to violate the
Law, and force the operatives to work
twelve hours day.
Our readers may form their own opinion
on this matter. For ourselves we must say
that grosser outrage than this whole trial,
has not stained the judicial records of any
land, in which English law prevails, since
the day of My Lord Jefrey's. We say
nothing of this Pittsburgh Judge; he is not
for San obsolete statue of 1905"
much less for Sthe law of England"
But we call upon the Man who keeps a
Slave Pen in Baltimore, to go to Church
next Sunday, and publicly thank God that
he is not Pittsburgh Factory Owner.
Hereafter we shall look upon shambles red
with the blood Of the negro, as something
Christian than the law Of
Pennsylvania, as "dug up" in Pittsburgh,
and hailed with steam-engine hosannas by
Shareholders. Let no Congress
man from Pittsburgh ever dare to talk in
Washington about the evils of Black Slave
ry, or the blessings of Free Soil. Your
Pittsburgh Law, gentlemen, can give the
of Jeffrey nine points of the game,
and beat them too, in every detail of absurd
One word to the Governor of this
State. To w. F. Johnson, not as Politi-
clan, notas Wing, Taylor Man or DEM
ocrat but as Man. For the honor of
Pennsylvania, Governor, release these girls
from jail. Do not let them rot in prison,
like that poor wretch Thomas Love. For
the honor of Humanity oppose your execu-
tive Mercy to this Pittsburgh Law, which
has been dug up from the grave Of hum
dred years, in order to help the Factory
Owners of Pittsburgh to evade all law, and
trample upon the commonest sympathies
of our nature. Do it, Governor, and do it
before YOU eat or drink or sleep. If you
do not-but no, no. We cannot SLAM
der YOU so basely as to dream of denial
from you. -,
A word to the people of Pennsylvania.
Elect your Judges as you now elect IA Gov
ernor. If you are fit to elect a Governor
who holds the power of Life and Death,
YOU are fit to elect a Judge who can deliver.
a sentence of death. The example of New
York is before you. They elect their Judg-
es. Your Judiciary system is an ulcer. 1t
is libel upon the State planted by Penn.
It is piece of gum electic which wealthy
fraud may stretch to suit its own purposes,
but which is neither strong enough, nor long
enough for ragged Honesty. Elect your
own Judges. Then if the ghost Of the in
famous Jeffrey creeps from his felon grave,
and crawls up into the body of one of your
Judges, and impels him to deeds of reckless
Outrage why then you have the power to
hurl the unjust Judge from the Altar OF