Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-13
From the Philadelphia Daily Pennsylvania.
Arrest OF Judge Kane.

The Abolitionists have given another EVIL
dence'o of their want of confidence in the justice
OF their actions, by their recent arrest of Judge
Kane, while on a visit to his wards in Delaware
county. The Judge, we believe, is the admin
istrator of the estate of the late Samuel Leiper
of Delaware county, and guardian of his chill
dren. day or two since, he paid visit to
the family in that county, in reference to mat
tiers connected with the estate. While sitting
at the breakfast table, he was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff of Delaware county, at the suit
of Passmore Williamson. He had probably
been tracked from Philadelphia by some of the
Underground Railroad Committee, whose bust
ness hitherto has been to steal negroes in q
clandestine manner, and after working them
nearly to death on their own, or their friends
farms, chasing them away penniess, when they
asked for money, with the cry that "ther mas
tiers we're in the 'neigbborhood looking after
themr
The Judge must have been under com.
plete state of surveillance by the Abolitionsts,
as his visits to Delaware county are not very
frequent. But why arrest him in that county,
and not in Philadelphia? In the latter
majority of the State Judges entertain Freesoil
principles, and as hs suit for damages could
be tried either in the Common Pleas, District
or Nisi Prius Courts, he had fair chance to
have an Abolitionist to preside, selecting that
Court, and that term, which would best suit his
purpose. Each Judge has his period to preside,
and no one knows this fact better than Pass
more Williamson and his friends. Why, then,
select Delaware county as the place to try the
merit of his case2 Is he convinced of his own
wrongdoing, and afraid to trust his friends and
neighbors? Or is it because he expects to
have an Abolitionist Judge and jury in the
lower county, to try his cause2 Has he had
such assurances from the Sheriff or county
Commissioners, who draw the jurors, or from
the Judge who must try the cause, if tried at
all in that county? Aboltionist as Judge
Hanes is known TO be, he is too honorable a
man to have counseled such course; but his
prejudices, and that of the jury which will be
summoned to his aid, have been counted upon,
to wrest justice from her proprety
This is not a matter between Passmore
Williamson and Judge Kane. 1t is contest
between the Constitution and the designs of
band of wretched fanatics. From the high
toned character Of the Judge, he would doubt
less be totally Indifferent where this mockery
of an action against him be tried, so conscious
is he of the rectitude Of his own intentions and
his just rendering Of the law. But where it
appears, as it does in his arrest in Delaware
county, while on visit connected with 6duciary
business, that scheme has been planned to
obtain verdict against the Constitution,
through him, TO be hereafter quoted as pre-
cedent, would Judge Kane be doing justice to
the South and to the friends of constitutional
right everywhere, to permit the cause to be
tried in Delaware county, If the fanaticism of
Williamson and his friends should push its
trial? We think not, and feel that we speak
the sentiment of the great mass Of the COM
munity.
1t appears to us that Judge Kane is bound,
even is defendant to see that no undue advan-
tage be taken Of. the law and constitutional
privileges, by providing Aboltionists, who SO
much dread verdict of the people of their
own vicinage, that they track their victim to
distant place in secret, in order to secure him,
as they are in the habit Of burrowing in dark
ness when about to steal other peoples pro-
perry. There are various modes of having his
liability to Williamson tested, and we strongly
incline to the opinion that it is Judge Kane s
duty to have it tried in that court, and in such
a manner as will nearest approachA constitu-
tional decision. The rdbids Of the Aboltionists
must be either killed or cured. There is no
intermediate mode of treatment
Gold Medal Conferred ON Pref Morse.
The New York Herald publishes an account
Of the presentation of "the great gold medal
for science to Prof Morse the inventor of the
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