Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-22
DAILY VIRGINIAN.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH u, is5l.
Rioting and Treason Of n. Freesoilers.

Rioting and Treason OF ~ <Ieeso1efs
The newspapers report of fragrant anC
seditious resistance to the United States officer,
in an attempt to execute the Fugitive slave law
at Milwaukee. An infuriabed mob of seyera
thousands surrounded the Jail, where the fugitiv,
had been secured. broke it open, and bore him of
in defiance of the law and the face of ts officers
We allude to the disgraceful transaction, the pnr.
ticulars of which given below, mainly to re-
mind the reader that when Mr.. Fillmore was Pre-.
sident,he was held responsibility the opposition
for every failure to enforce the Fugitive slave
law. We need not say that the attempt of the
writer to hold the South responsible for this &C
curcnce is an unmitigated calumny.
Correspondence of the n. Y. Expressly
MILWAUKEE, March II.
Ere this. the telegraph has probably informed
you of an intense excitement in city in con-
nection with the arrest of an alleged fugitive
slave.
The fhcts are these. colored man by the
name of Joshua Glover, residing near Racine
was arrested by Marshal Cotton last night, at the
instance of Benjamin s. Garland, of Missouri
who claimed him as his escaped slave. Said al
legged fugitive brought TO this city, early this
morning and lodged in iai
The manner of his arrest is represented Ia
have been wanton, cruel and brutal. The first
introduction TO the officers was blow over the
head with a cudgel while in bed. and entirely
helpless. This created the most indignant feel
ings on the part OF the people of Racine, when
they found out the circumstance aud the arrest.
The telegraph immediately gaze the alarm 10 this
City, and when il found that he was lodged
in Jail. the bells a the city sounded the ALARM
and the people TO the number of five to six thou
sand assembled around the Jail. A meeting
organized and committee appointed TO see that
Justice be melted ont to the prisoner. writ Of
Habeas Corpus was issued and the Sheriff re-
fused IN serveit. Thereupon the indignation Of
the people was aroused, and in the meantime,
deputatou at several hundred citizens had arrived
from Racine. The angry pillows were boiling
the people were of one accord and one mind. At
Six = NJ the alarm bell was sounded, aud every
street leading to the jail crowded with men
rushing 30 the scene. Resistance useless.
Not a man out of city of 10000 inhabitants
could be found to assist the officers. The militia
ry had been ordered by the Marshal to be in
readiness but they were not called out. Tho
impression prevailed unanimously that if called
out they weuld fire into the officers before they
would into the ctizens-for they were part and
parcel Of indignant community. Soon the
Jail was smashed n-the negro brought outplac
cd in wagon in readiness, and under an escort
of hundreds of men conveyed back to Racine
The shouts and wells, ms the alleged Fugitive was
Drought out, MADE Tue very heavens flnE-int
surges of the people were like those of the ocean
nothing could resist them. Such a por-
ton of the facts. But "A moral is IN them.
This city is Democratic bya overwhelming
majority. II has been national city in its sen
timents-a Compromise city--the head of the
State in acquiesoence with the Compromise mea
sures. II took them final settlement, and
yielded It's instincts and sentiments to the Fugi-
tive Slave Law for the common good But the
re-opening of the Slave question in Congress
the shameless violation Of NIL honor and faith on
the part of the South-repealng their part of the
compact-and endeavoring 10 leave binding the
part of the North--has cut loose every friend of
~" s-sth - .,is city aud mnu was TO and To do
reverence 10 the Fugitive Slave Law. This feel
ing Is deep intense and universal. But for the
passage of the Nebraska Bill through the SENATE,
the scenes of this day had not trnnspired. The
citizens did not look upon the Fugitive Slave Law
as an act of Congress in full force and effect till
duly repealed-but as part of compact between
two contracting parties And, rs in all oompacts
when one party violates its part the opposite
party is released from all moral and legal obi
CATION. So in the law, the people looked upon it
as null and void, and expunged it from the Stat
ute Book.
Such sentiments ripened into the most intense
and bitter feelings This evening dny loaded
with barrel of tar and a bundle of feathers,
was followed by an immense ooncourse of people
IN search of the Missouri owner of the alleged
fugitive 81
Where such matters will end, no man knows.
At the door of the South lie all the scenes and
violence of this day, and those which may yet
follow. These may be set down rs the first re-
suits of the Nebraska Iniquity. A.