Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-04-07
THE ANTI-SLA VERY BUGLE. +.

Walker presented the following affidavit Of Mr.. :
q. Van Slyke, guardian OF Rosetta" and made
the motion recited below:
State Of ohio, Hamilton county 81.
Louis g.. Van Slyke, makes oath and says, that
about two or three O'Clock p. Nj. of this dag, to-
wit: March 29,h, 1855, the Sheriff Of said county
delivered into the care and custody of this afiart
at the Woodruff House, in the city OF Cincinnati,
in said county, his ward, Rosetta Armstead, q col
orcd girl, aged about sixteen years, in pursuance
of All order made by the Court OF Common Pleas,
of said I Iunty, ut said date, which said order OF
said cuutt was made in the hearing OF Il case upon
a writ of habeas corpus directed to one Hiram III.
Robinson, and issued by said court on behalf Of
said Rosetta upon the affidavit of Charles Langston
Affant further says, that within the period Of five
minutes after the delivery to him Of HE said ward,
Hiram III. Robinson, upon the procurement OF
Henry NJ. Dennison, as the afiant verify believes,
rurci6l~ and against the will Of his aiiant, and as
afiant believes unlawfully and in contempt of said
court, took from The care and custody of this ah-
ant his said ward, Rosetta Armstepd; and afhant
also saws that said Robinson ard said Dennison
still fnrcibly and unlaw fully cOntinac to detain the
said Rosetta in their custody.
And aiiant further says, that said taking and
OBTAINING Of said Rosetta by said Robinson and
said Dcnnison, was not made by virtue of any law
lul warrant or authority, but was made under II
pretended warrant issued by one John l.. Pendery,
a pretended Commissioner of The United States for
the Southern District Of the said State of Ohio,
upon the affidavit of said Dennison, which said
pretendel warrant is the samo under which the
said Robinson held said Rosetta in custody at the
time she was released from his said custody by
said order Of said Court upon the hearing Of said
case upon the said writ of habeas corpus above
named, and is also the same pretended warrant
which was set forth in the return made by said
Robinson to the said writ of habeas corpus.
L. G. VAN SLYKE.
Sworn to and certified by Clerk, under seal.
JUDGE WALKERS MOTION.
L C. Van Slyke, for the reasons stated in the
annexed affidavit, now, by his counsel, moves the
Court to issue n writ of attachment for the bodies
of IIirqm Ii. Robinson and Henry NJ. Dennison,
ON the charge of a contempt of ne order Of this
Court. set furth in said affidavit.
Judge Parker said he must be satisfied that he
was right in whatever he might do. Was there II
disobcdience or resistance of the order of the
court? This would depend ON the question wheth-
er the order remained in existence ut the time of
the second caption. He would ask counsel tosdirect
attention to this point. The process of Tho court
must be respected The court would see its pro-.
cess executed, notwithstanding the opposition OF
any other process whatever, than that of the Su-
preme Court Of the State CONSTITUTIONAL express
ed. Had the court supposed that the original or.
der continuing the custody of Rosetta with the
Marshal would be disregarded by taking her be-
fore any other tribunal or authority, real or pre-
tended, that order would never have been made
The court would have retained the custody Of the
child under its own officers.
Attorney Walker then proceeded to advocate his
motion.
lie said that the proceedings in the court yester-
day showed an intention to commit co-tempt-and
the "summa showed it to be the most aggra-
waited contempt that he had ever known or read of.
In its letter aud spirit the order of the court had
been violated.
The bold announcement was made in open Court
before the order was issued, that it would be dis
regarded. The reverend gentleman, himself, if he
was rightly reported, had unusually broken in up
on the trial, and threatened his demand against
the Marshal, claiming Rosetta before the Court
itself, Initiating that the subsequent arrest was a
~foregone conclusion; he never heard anything more
incendiary, And it was not an immediate con
tempt only, because it was accompanied by cx'
pressed acknowledgment Of respect for the Court.
| cannot permit myself to speak in terms as strong
as am tempted to do, in appreciation of yonr
tlIonor's course, in sustaining the integrity of your
. Court in giving the order you did. Whss then be
comes of the order, if, in five minutes atterward
it can be disregarded What prospect is there q
n the State of Ohio maintaining her dignity and in
i tcgrity, it the sentiments preceding such disobe'
dience as were uttered in another forum, by dis
: tinguished counsel in the case, from another State,
can fall silently On the ear? These words were re
ported as follows: Mr.. Wolfe propEesicd thai
, there would be bloody times hereabouts, when the
4 fanaticism prevalent on this side of the Ohio hat
- proceeded a few steps further. The time was APP
r. pruaclIing when, it these outrages on the rights Ut
u Kentucky were persisted in, scenes would be en-
acted that the eye Of humanity would lie painec
{ to gaze upon."
Are we, in view of these announcements, sol
{ EMMY made, TO knuckle to such demands ? or yielt
" to such threats? Is there n North? Is there
j" State of Ohio? IL there are, then in Gods nam,
, let them be evidenced
0 The Court said they would enforce their own Or
J der, but the point he wished the argument directe,
g to. was, as to the initiatury step necessary to b
= taken.
: Attorney Walker, said if there was n contcmp
. it was a palpable one, and a peremptory attach
ment was the prone. step.
{ Attorney Jolife read the clause of the Constitu
p ton, under which the Marshal claimed to act, anC
= = maintained that state courts have heretofore, an,
l of right ought to, determine on L. S. laws, such a
y patents, land surveys, titles, &c, &c. They do
"e every day. What has been secured by our decis
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