Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-12-17
THE TREASON TRIAL.

THE TREASON TRIAL.
CASHIER HANAwAY, one Of the Christi
INA party charged with Treason against The
United SIstes, has been acquitted. With the
exception Of two intervening Sundays and
Thanksgiving Day, his case occupied the
attention Of The Supreme Court from the
25'h ul.., until Thursday last.
Judge Grier, after com piimen,ing the jury
upon tire ps,ien. attention they had given
the case, said iha, The prisoner had right
to require Of them that they would not al
low the s,roci,y Of the s4fsir, or the horror
they had OF il, 10 cause them to forget their
duties to him, and convict him without full
and satisfactory proof Of his guilt. Tha.
the Government also, " bile j. could desire
,he sacrifice IF an Innocen, man for the pus-
pose Of public example, had RICH, TO de-
msnd Of them q fearless, unA,nching dis
charge Of duty. He said i. had been clear
~ established by The testimony, that mos,
horrible outrage upon The laws OF The coun-
sry had been c"mMn,ied. This outrage had
been committed in open day. in the presence
Of persons, who, if they did not encourage
or participate in it, looked c<'I.lly and care
le.sly on-lhese facts were established be-
s-ond contradiction. The reason why in
go years We had become great and power
full nation, happy and prosperous a, home,
and feared and respected abroad, was be-
cause all here bow TO the supremacy Of The
law. Pennsylvania was loyal.
Her fidelity and love to the Union were
beyond question, ye, he regretted TO say tina,
the only trials and c"ns4cRons IN record
for treason 10 the United States had their
venue laid within her limits. But wihon,
at present expressing any opinion whether
the presen, outrage is to be classed as riot,
murder or Hsson, we think it due to the re-
pu,s,ion Of this common eal,h TO say iha,
with the exception Of few individuals of
perverted intelligence in some small Sc clrons
whose moral atmosphere had bern poisned
~ male and female vsgrsht lectures and
conventions, no party in politics, no sect in
seligion Of respectable numbers can be found
within our borders who have received with
sppIobsli"n this disprsceful tragedy.
it is not in this Hall Of Justice that meet
ines Of lnfuria,ed fanatics and unprincipled
demsg"gues have been held to counsel
u
this city that conventions are held denonnc-
ing the Constitution, The laws and the Bible
Il is no. here that The pulPi. has been desc
crsted By sediti"us exhortations teaching
cha, theft is muinous, murder excusable and
and treason virtue. The guilt Of this foul
murder rests not alone on The deluded ind-
viduals who were its immediate perpetrators,
but The blood ,sinls with even a deeper dive
The skirts of those who promulgated doc
srines subversive Of all morality and govern
ment. Ii was due to the prisoner to say
that there was no evidence 10 show that he
had attended any of these conclaves in op.
position 10 the Constitution. He said The
indictment charged the prisoner with ,rea-
sen in resisting the execution Of the fugitive
slaye law. The Constitutional provision
for the deliveryAof persons held to service
or labor was the law Of The land and binding
on every State and individual.
II was upon this condition alone tina, the
Southern States accepted the Constitution,
snd II individuals or Legislatures in the
Northern States succeeded in ,hwarting the
execution Of This law, the South could no,
be blamed if she seeded from an alliance
with open covenant breakers. The Judge
sben went ON to examine a. length the Law
Of treason, and the evidence adduced in the
presen, case, and gave i. as his opinion that
the charge Of treason had not been ssls,ain-
ed sgains. The prisoner Runaway.
The Jury then retired, and after brief
consultation returned verdict of mot gull
IT," in accordance with the charge of Judge
Grier.
The United States, upon the rendition of
this verdict, Immediately aband oned the four
other indictments agains. Hanaway, and the
Court adjourned.
Some conversation took place in regard
10 the prisoners, Elijah Lewis end Samuel
Williams, and they were admitted to bail in
$1,000 each. The bills sgains, Jackson were
non pros'd. Mr.. Ashmead, Distric, Attorney
said that most Of the prisoners against whom
retsiners bad been entered by the au,hori-
ties of Lancaster county would be sent there
to be tried fos The murder of Edward Cor
such, or 10 avail. such action ss they may
see proper 10 take in the matter.
A New MoyEMENr.--The follow ing
preamble and resolutions, passed by the Ger
man Political Club, Of Cleveland, Ohio,
speak for themselves, and will be read with
some interest by the people Of the Southern
States particularly:
Whereas the colored people, in their meeting
held on the 18th instant, have expressed their
sympathy with the German nation, by a resolution
to actually aid the German national loan the Ger.
man Political Club resolves:
1st To exDress its hearty fhanks and ,y, r..