Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-06-13
The fugitive AZ Chicago.

This case was decided last Friday afternoon,
aud the prisoner discharged.
The milk and water Journals about here, are
Growing over this wonderful deliverance, as
though it was triumph of which the freemen
of the north should be proud.
We look at this matter through another pair OF
spectacles entirely. We are not disposed to
overlook the outrageous and high-handed de-
mands and usurpations of these hunters of men,
who, without a shadow of evidence, can arrest
free man in free state, pursuing his own bu-
siness, and drag him from his home and shut him
up under bolts, with hound-shaped men to watch
him.
We are not disposed TO apologize for the com
missioner or the law, that takes all the guns and
bayonets. swords and cannon of volunteer and
enrolled companies of cities, states, and the gen.
eral government, and marches these armed men
to the doors of the Temple of Justice, there to
guard and prevent an innocent free man from
pursuing his avocation or pleasure.
Look at the case and the evidence before us.
The kidnapper and his record calls for man five
Feet and eight inches in height The man ar
rested meas res five feet and five inches.
The record calls fora man of copper color,
the arrested man is coal black. And it takes
commissioner and kduapper, soldiers, and law
yers, five of the longest days Of the year to tell
whether the man suits the measure whether
he is red or black! And because these colonies,
and captains, and soldiers, and lawyers, and mar
shals, and aids, and constables, and commission
ers, have found out in five June days, the diff
ference in length between five feet eight inches
and five feet five nches-and between red or
copper color and black The whole free world
are rejoicing in the triumph of liberty and free
princpics Out upon such cant
There is occasion for the deepest sorrow rath-
er, that there arc no means of bringing TO imme-
datc and Condign punishment every man, be he
soldier or commissioner, saVe-hunter or marshal,
witness, or lawyer, who has had anything to DO
with this nciarous and outrageous attempt upon
the liberty Of fellow man.
And Chicago must be bidding high or loro for
southern custom and travel, when her editors
Especially those of the daily press, of whom we
expected better things,) can hold their tongues
and fetter their presses from uttCring an indig-
nant vnirn, when her citizens captured and
although innocent are shut up in bonds. The
Tribune (undcr the circumstances has it ap-
pears 10 us acted the most doughty of the Chca-
go prcss-we had right to expect from paper
that was established as free soil journal, some
indignant rCaOnstranCe-sOmC solemn protest
against this outrage of treemen upon free soil
But no, it made its prisons with uplilted hands,
thanking God it had counselcd no violence and
at the same time we suppose it CALCULATED in
lower tone, an earnest hope that 1t had lost no
subscribers or patronage.
Dcbascd indeed are the men of the NORTH if we
have much longer to submit to these indgntes
upon orr constitutional rights outragcously in
suited, if frccmcn can be shut up and placed IN
Jeopardy of liberty, (and when the mistake of
having arrested the wrong man is discovcred)
secretly let out and dismissed without so much
as an apology, "oh, the slave hunter was mistak-
en- in the person"
And here we sit (brave fellows,) and think
that We are remarkably lucky if we escape be-
ing arrested and tried for our LIBERTY, which
every FREEMAN values dearer than LIFE-and are
ready to toss up our hats-and sing peans of
glory, if one Of our fellows who happen to be
arrested gets clear, when there is no evidence
against him.
Well this is great country, and the slave
holders rule ii. And some of the white men Of
the north are the blacklist slaves in it.