Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-22
THE WHEELER SLAVE CASE.

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We learn from the Pennsylvania of the 18th
that Col. Wheeler left Philadelphia on the 18th
having been there since the 18th July, endeavoring
70 reclaim his slaves He had scarcely left the City
when an abolitionist named William Still, out
warrant against him for having is charged, vi
olently attempted to deprive his slave woman, Jane,
of her liberty land if the warrant could have been
served, Col. Wheeler. Minister of the United
States to a Foreign country, would have been COM
pelled either to have given bail or gone to Jail,
merely because he made effort to prevent the alb
otionists from tearing his property from him, and
csrrying the woman and the boys away against
heir own consent The Pennsylvania, Demo-
cratic paper adds:
upon this affidavit, warrant was issued, direc-
ted to the constable of the ward, authorizing the
arrest of Mr.. Wheeler. The constable being I'M
willing to the warrant, willing instrument of
the misguided amagamationists was found in the
person of Policeman Seed, Know Nothing and
Abolition officer of Robert Z. Conrad, our Know
Nothing and Abolition Mayor of Philadelphia. Why
this warrant not issued until it was generally
known that Mr. Wheeler had left in the pursuit of
his public duties, one but some of the band of
awess fanatics, who infest and disgrace the city of
Philadelphia, can tell.
For part, we regret that the warrant had not
come sooner, and we also regret that Mr.. Wheeler
has left the State and perhaps the country. If he
has not left we trust he will permit himsefto be
to result from such high handed, Illegal and unwar
rantable proceedings. We presume it for this
object that the money we have heard so much about,
was subscribed along Market street. by several mer
chants who do large business with the South. If
SO, there responsible parties to look to- and in
addition to the claim which will shortly, we under
stand be brought before the Circuit Court of the u
States for the value of his slaves and damages for
outrage upon his person, Mr.. Wheeler will have
other action cognizable in the Court, for
spiraCy and malicious prosecution. This last resort
of the negro mob to annoy unofending citizen,
only shows the desperate lengths to which deuded
monOmaniacs will go to the accomplishment of their
purposes"
These are to large extent, the fruits of Know
Nothing rule in Philadelphia. 1t is notorious that
when Col. Wheeler, the 18th July, appealed to
the Know Nothing police officers of Philadelphia to
aid him in preventing the outrage, they refused to
do so, replying that they no slave-catcbers" y;
and it is notorious also, that the only efficient aid he
received, extended by United States deputy
Marshas, and by Judge Kane Of the United States
Circuit Court If his rights and his person had
been left to Mayor Conrad and his officers for pro-
lection, action would have been taken against
Pa-|'nore Williamson and the free negroes who
saulted and robbed him and he would have been
himself either in prison, bound under a heavy
penalty to appear and answer to charge of kid
mapping
Mayor Conrad, it will be remembered, is the indi-
vidual who presided at the banquet in Philadelphia
during the sitting of the Know Kothing National
Convention. He is the man in whose presence on
that occasion, Ford, of Ohio, and delegate from
Massachusetts,, talked abolitonism, and thereby in
suited Southern men and before whom also, at the
same time, Mr.. Rayner delivered his rhapsody about
the Union.
And who is Judge Kane who in his recent opin-
ion delivered in this very case enuncated the doc
trne at least in substance that Southern savehold-
hare the right when travelling in the free States,
to take their servants with them without molesta-
ton? Judge Kane is a NATIONAL Democrat,
and in every of the word true man. He
was, we believe, active and prominent member
of the Democratic National Convention of 1874
widely known among Southern delegates, and re-
sected for the soundness of his views the slavery
question and he was appointed by President Polk
to the Circuit Court Bench-a position in which he
has added much to his reputation by his learning,
his rmness, and his regard for the rights of all
tons of the Union.
Far be it from to intimate that persons
foreign born sounder questions involving the
Constitutional rights of the South than natives of
the country generally; but there instances
SANITY occurring in which the fidelity in this
spect of naturalized citizens is illustrated in impress
sve contrast with the action and non-action of
tves born. These Philadelphia police officers for
example, natives, for they are Know Nothings.
We have yet to hear of such men risking their
lives in support of the Constitution and laws but
we all know that Batchelder, the deputy United
States Marshal who was killed by the abolition mob
in Boston in the Burns case, was an Irshman. We
know, also, that the three thousand New England
cergymen who demonstrated with the United States
Senate against the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and
who called down upon that body the vengeance of
Almighty God, are Protestants and natives born
that Giddings Seward, Garrison, Wendell Phillips,
Sumner, Chase, Wade, Ford, and Wilson ma
tves; that Shields, John Mitchell, flanagan, Meagh
er, and scores Of Others all true to the Consttu-
tonal rights of the South, are naturazed citizens;
and that the firmest friends which Judge Douglas
has in Chicago and who even offered to form a COM
pany to protect him against outrage in that City,
are naturalized Irishmen. May God deliver the
South from the cold blooded matioe Yankee abo-
itionists!
~ piece of pasteboard, with all the colors
painted upon it, will appear perfectly blank when
Whlred rapidly around and the Know Nothing