Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-03-17
s~-The editor of the Milwaukee Sen


tinel says, he visited the colored fugitive,
Joshua Glover, in prison, and found him
coatless and hatless, with two severe cuts
on his head, his face covered and clotted
with blood, and his shirt-bosom satura-
ted and stiff with it.
The offence for which this man was re-
duced to this condition was simply, pre-
ferring Liberty to Slavery-nothing else
under Heaven. 1t does not appear that
he made the least resistance to the four
men who sought to arrest him. They
found him unarmed and defenceless-put
pistol to his head and then with club
felled him to the floor. If the man had
been accused of murder instead, not a
man in community would justify such a
brutal and unnecessary assault. Yet it
was done for precisely the same offence
in spirit, committed by our Fathers at
Lexington and Bunker Hill-preferring
Liberty to Slavery.
And so far from this brutality being
punishable by law, it is absolutely iusti-
fed and encouraged by the Fugitive Slave
Law. These men were arrested under
our laws for this offence, and Judge Mil
Ter, as the administrator of the Fugitive
Slave Law, sets them free. and his conduct
is that of every other Judge who has ev-
er administered that law.
We say there is no Person, Family, OF
Dwelling in the land safe. All laws for
the protection of Persons are nullified
and set aside; the fundamental principles
ofLiberty are destroyed, the basis ofgood
order in society is subverted, and mob
law and brute force is the law of the land.
1t don't make particle of difference
whether man is black .orwhite. or brown.
or whether he has ever seen the south
side Of Mason & Dixons line. 1t is only
necessary that some scoundrel shall de
scribe your person and swear he owns
you; and he can beat in your doors can
clap 4 pistol to your head and beat you
downwith bludgeons. can set blood hounds
on you and drive you into swamps and
rivers, or he can, as has been done, shoot
you in cold. deliberate blood, when you
are unarmed. defenceless and unresisting,
dead in your tracks, and this law pats
him ON the back most affectionatelv. and
says. well done thou good and faithful.
Talk of Mobs The Fugitive Law is
a perpetual and eternal Mob: a Mob or
ganized to break down and subve every
principle of law, order, and good govern
ment, and substitute the anarchy of bru-
tally and injustice. a pressgang Mob,
which has forced into service our Judges,
Courts, Marshals, and all the machinery
of our government, thus stealing the liv
cry of Liberty, most foully to serve the
cause of Despotism. Never did men ex-
hibit deeper regard for Law and Order
than the men of Racine and Milwaukee
on this occasion. 1t cheers and encoura-
( ges us; it stirs our blood like bugle
blast on Freedoms battle field. and when
the occasion comes, if it ever should.
please God we may be no laggard in such
fight
We love our Countrywide world-and
the humanity which peoples it, and as we
do, so do we trample and spit upon this
law and those who made and uphold it.
Never was a greater tyranny enacted
and never fouler blow aimed at the pro-
grcss of liberty and liberal and correct
sentiment throughout the land.
Something has been done in this affair
towards rendering harmless this noxious
law upon this soil. but until these scoun-
drcls who commit such wanton outrages
can be brought to punishment, it is folly
to talk of any other security for Life, Ii:
berty, and Property, than such as strong
arm and the bowie-knife and pistol can
give.