Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-02-24
MAR ATivE OF rHE CLOVER RESCUE.


ing >. NJ Booth and John Rycraft, two cili.
zens Of this State, from the fine and imprisoii.
ment 10 which they had been sentenced b,
Judge Miller, after conviction 10 The U, s. Dis
irict Court, Of Alleged violation Of the Fuqi.
tive Slave Act, is a matter Of too deep and
serious import TO be lightly passed over, or dis
missed without further remark. Regarding
that decision as fraugb, with important conse-
| guences TO the great cause OF Constitutional
Rights and Human Liberty as setting up a
barrier against any further invasion Of those
rights by the prasping and domineering spirit
Of Slavery and as comforting immortal honor
upon the Court which pronounced and the State
which susiains this righteous Judgment, we
have thought the present proper occasion to
lay before oure readers succinct narrative Of
The cause, the progress and the issue Of the
GtovgR REscuE TRrALs in this city. 9W
Early in March last, negro. bruised bleed
ing and rnanaclcd, was brought to this CITY. In
custody Of Deputy U. s. Marshal Coitos, and
lodged in our County Jail In spite Of the e.
forts Of the United States officers 10 Keep their
secret, the fact speedily iranspired. The cir
cuinsiances, too, attending the capture, came
'N's so htI otbtJ INV ifoul luVNlN 10 fuNuln,
the waves Of popular excitement began 10 rise !;
and gathering groups on every corner ariested
the public interest 10 this novel case. Il was
soon known that brutal and UNNECESSARY vio-
lence bad been used TO arrest de man, upon
the charge Of being slave, and il began io be
suspected that foul play would be employed to
complete what force had begun. Counsel were
procured for the imprisoned fugitive, and a writ
Of habeas corpus applied for and obtained from
the Judge Of the County Court. The Sheriff
made return 10 the writ that The prisoner was
not in his custody. A second writ was then
sued out against the u. S. Marshal. Mean
time the people assembled by thousand on ,he
Court-House Square; meeting was organized,
speeches made, resolutions adopted pledgiug all
present TO stand by the wri, Of habeas corpus
and the right Of trial by jury and committees
appointed TO wait on the U. s. officers and
learn whether they intended to obey the second
writ and produce their prisoner. While the
excitement was al its height, delegation, 100
s,roag, from Racinc--whenee The alleged slave
had been forcibly abducted the previous night
arrived upon the ground, adding fuel to the
iast-iading flame. At this critical iuncture,
too, came the report that the writ Of habeas
corpus would not be obeycd, and the sospicion
was strengthened that The negto was to be car
red back into Slavery, rs he had been broueht
to the Milwaukee Jail, by sheer force and with.
out warrant Of law. Then II was thar, by an
irresistible impulse, and without concert, or
premediIa,ion, rush vas made for the Jail, the
doors battered down, the prisoner released,
placed in wagon and hurried beyond the reach
OF pursuit, amid the applauding shouts Of sym
paihizing thousands ~ f SIS ,.g
Such is the brief history of the resais Of the
alleged slave Joshua Glover. The breakiup Of
the Jail. and the iorcible release OF Glaver.
were offcnses In tho eve Of the law and in the
estima'ion of Inc public. For these, As Mr.. |
lweedy well said. in his speech at Young's 1
Hall, repnration was due to the State of Wis |
consin, whose laws had been violated, and TO 1
the City of Milwaukee, whose peace had been 1
eioken but u was not the province Of the 1
Federal Government to enforce that reparaiion.
Onr own Courts and authorities were competent
10 the task. The Officers Of the Federal Cor
ernment, however, assnmed the initia,iye.-
Their first step was to procure the arrest of s
NJ. Booth. accused Of being a ring-leatler in
A.. III
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'.'',a Gu, Us, 'SCe my Sm''n' Of our STATE Su7
''so "s-. oVu "e WI. was gran'ed' argn-
S'1 1,1 S-o sppa y, anu mr. Doom discharged
"a sao .o,"s ~" He commitment was M
= -S's,' Inu ue rus,''se' ''a'e Act itself, !
,;or. % "'VT Tn '"s processing was had, unconsii-
81" 49, Pon,s were. en,otcea Ia an
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gr-' ", y ' 'ls' oen'. u ,ne supreme Court
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~ s1 soSy,'"s ~ .se oruer OF discharge, ,
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~ .a~ nN -. Sni'h opinion' which
Su '"N uBiu'V save Act 70 ue unconstltu- I