Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-03-24
A Serious Question.

ueiu, WHICH Will CUuiouHu tuc CdiSuAosAoiA
of the most expert politicians.
A Serious Question.
If Compromises in .faror Of Liberty are no
binding, are Compromises an tduor Q
). .Slarery bindinss
This is practical issue involved in th'
question of the notification of the Nilsson
ri Compromise. Missouri was admitted
riM Slavery, ON CONDITION that SLAYER.
should be d" "for erer prohibited' north o
$3.50. Slavery having thus acquired
half now insultingly demands all. Shal
it be yielded? is the question which the
Free North must decide.
! 1t was only as compromise that the
Fugitive Slave Law was ever submitted t.
by any considerable portion of the Non
Slaveholding States. If the South now
get back, by the aid Of traitors, the cons'
deration for the contract, will the North
be so mean-spirited and so base as still tc
carry out its odious requirements?
/ We believe not. Every municipal OIL
State Election held since this Pandora
box was opened, has indicated the popular
will. Although the impregnable Democ-
racy of New Hampshire repudiated that
issue, the close connection of Douglas with
the party was so suspicious that it has
nearly if not quite lost them the Legisla-
ture. The Democratic cities of Oswego,
Detroit, Milwaukee, and many others, are
revolutionized by the same influence.
The first attempt to enforce the Fug-
tive Slave Law since the Douglas Bill
passed the Senate, indicates revulsion of
popular feeling not very encouraging to
the "hunters of men" We condense the
account.
FUGITIVE SLAVE EXCITEMENT IN MIL
wAUKIE-JAIL BROKEN-A TRIAL BY
JURY DEMANDED BY THE PEOPLE.
From the Milwaukee ssntinsl, March ISL
Joshua Glover was in the employ of
st. Clair & Rice, in a mill near Racine.
On Friday night, while seated in his shan
ty, Eve men broke open the door suddenly,
rushed in upon him, and felled him to the
ground. They then handcuffed him, took
him into double buggy, with nothing on
but his pantaloons and shirt, and drove off
north, and, after having lost the way, at
last brought him to Milwaukee county Jail.
Here he was lodged in cell, handcuffed.
Our deputy jailor, with commendable feel
ings of humanity, took off the handouts,
and treated him with care and kindness.
As soon as the matter got wind, the
greatest excitement prevailed. A large
number Aocked to the Jail, and declared
that he should not be taken from the city
Lawyers without number were busy at
work, searching through the sections of
the Fugitive Slave Law.
Some man rode through from Racine on
horseback, and gave the first information
that our Jail contained fugitive-that
one of its cells had been polluted by the
blood of fugitive slave. We, with others,
went to the Jail, and found the fugitive in
cell. He was called out into the passage,
and what sight was there! The man
was cut in two places on the head; the
front of his shirt and vest were soaking
and stiff in his own blood.
The man tells US that lie had been in
this State about two years that he was at
work for the persons we have named above,
and that they now owe him about fifty
dollars; he was sitting in the shanty when
the men came in, and one placed revol-
yer to his head he put up his hand to push
it away, when he was knocked down sense
less, and removed to the wagon. The man
or men swore that if he shouted or made
the least noise they would killhim instantly.
A habeas corpus was Immediately got
out before Judge jenkins, and civil war
rant before Albert Smith, Esq, Justice of
the Peace, for the damages sustained by
The unfortunate man. A telegraphic des-
patch was sent to Racine for warrant for
The arrest of the five men engaged in as
saulting and beating him in his shanty.
The court house bell was rung; thous-
ands focked to the court house square and
around the Jail, the excitement being in
.ense. After some time the crowd was
.alled to Jas. H. Paine, from the Court
house steps, when Gen. E. b. Wolcott was
chosen President, and A. II. Bielfeld, Sec
.etary.
A committee, consisting of one from
zach ward, was appointed to draf. resolu-
ions, and present them to the meeting.
The crowd, which had kept increasing,
vas then addressed by Byron Paine, Gen.
Paine, S. NJ. Booth, and A. H. Bielfeld.
Each speaker was loudly cheered. The
were called for and read to the
Meeting, and adopted with great cheering.
They were as follows:
"Whereas, q man named Joshua GLOW.
r, living in the neighborhood of Racine,
lad his house broken into, pistol presen-
ed at bis head, was knocked down and