Hannibal journal and western union. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1851-1852, 1851-10-16

The Stare Case at Syracuse Riot and Res
eU.-The telegraph yesterday morning an
nounced thai fugitive slave case was under
examination in Syracuse-that there had been
rescue and recapture, and that there were mani
festations that farther violence was threatened.
By the report this morning, dated yesterday we
learn that the examination was resumed at o.
clock on Wednesday afternoon, at the Police
Office, with closed doors. A crowd of 1000 or
1000 people, in high state of excitement, sur
rounded the building. Stones were thrown a
gainst the doors and windows, and large num-
bers OF panes broken. Before any progress was
made in the examination, the manifest excitement
of the crowd outside became so prominent that the
case was adjourned till 8 o'clock yesterday morn
/ ing. After the adjournment, the aIedged fugi-
tive was taken into a room, back of the Police
Office, to wait until the crowd scattered, when
he was to be conveyed to place Of safety.
Z AT l-2 o'clock, an attack was made BY
number of persons, disguised as negroes, on the
Police Office, with clubs, axes and crowbars.
| The doors and windows were demolished, and
the office filled with men, but the negro was still
beyond their reach. A plank was used as a
battering ram, and an entrance forced with it..
There the partition separated it, and the apart
ment in the rear Of it in which the negro was
Resistance was made by the officers having the
negro in charge, but they were overpowered, and
he was borne away by his friends. The negro
was put into carriage, near Brintnai's HOtel,
and hurried out of town to place of security
Marsal Fitch, of Rochester, had his right arm
broken, in attempting to escape from the room in
which the negro was.
The Syracuse Star says that anarchy and mob
law reigned triumphat in the city from until
9P.M.
i Thus it appears that mob law, violence and
outrage are triumphant in Syracuse for the time.
1t is to be hoped, however, that the ringleaders,
at least, will be arrested, and made to feel that
the laws of the United States cannot be forcibly
resisted in the State of New York with impuni-
i ty-that mobocracy and notification cannot ride
rampant over the peace and good order of socie-
ty. A city where mobs can endanger the lives
; and property on any pretence cannot be safe
one TO reside in. Let the mob spirit once b,
loosed, and there is no telling where it will lead,
} or upon what object it will next wreak its ven
geafee or spend its violence. o
No man in Syracuse will now feel secure
I no man we should suppose, would be willing to
invest his property in community of law break
ers awhere individual rights, as well as the con-
stituted authorities are set at defiance.
Here, again, we see the consequences of the
''Higher Law teachings This is but what has
been threatened, and the Deputy Marshal should
have been prepared for the contingency. He
should have had with him sufficient DoSse "a
enable him to discharge his duty, and 10 protect
him against the rabble Allowing the mob hi.
easy triumph encourages a spirit Of lawlessness
and invites further outrage and violence. --Buf:
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