Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-15
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. ., 1855
State Jurisdiction.

credit for sincerity But the erratic geRiuso
some individual cases exerts so awakening
an influence among communities at large,
that it becomes the duty of an honest, patri-
otto symIathizer, with the interest and web
fare of his country at heart, to raise his voice
however feeble or inefiicacious it may be,
against those who take contemplate pleas
ure in making trouble out of nothing, eithel
for tie sake of pretended principle, or the
|, gain of notoriety.
The New York Tribune, of Nov. lst, cons
tains an epistle extraordinary, from an eccle-
siastical gentleman who signs himself j. =.
Mccormick, in which, without any desir2
"to oltrade his personal history onths atsen'
ition OF the readers Of the Tribune" he pro-
ceeds to promulgate the account of some
personal difficulty, of which he has been the
misguided subject. We deem it proper to
state that the very name Of Mr.. MCCORMICK
had never before met our ocular or sural
senses, and that the view which take of
his sffair is simply from his own testimony
and that of other less interested persons.
"During my fourteen years ministry in
Princeton, Indiana says the Rev. Mr.. Nc
CoRMIcK, 81 used my liberty to preach more
freely against slavery than had done pre-
viously"-that is to say, more freely than in
Kentucky. Bold man! who, being afraid to
utter his true sentiments in chivalrous Ken
lucky, comes into Indiana to preach against
slavery Are these the martyrs who adj
vance the cause of truth Did JOHN KNOX
dodge high authority, to preach the cause OF
truth only among friends +? or did he front
the Pspal Court of MARY. and boldly de-
nounce the outrageous conduct of the powers
that be Did LUTHER escape to the Court
of Saxony, whose Eector was his firm friend,
or did he come boldly to the hostile Council
at Worms, in spite of their enmity, and
though the devils were as numerous as the
tiles on the house-tops? And how far has
this pitiful martyr followed their example, or
pursued the footsteps of past martyrhood P
Not farther than safety could secure him,
surely.
But the Rev. gentleman attempts TO screen
himself from the charge Of man-ste aliDg on
the obviously frivolous catch of wor,ls, that
he chad not been in the State of Kentucky
for several years!" Now, ifa man in Europe,
having some secret cause of enmity against
an American citizen, induces some fallen
specimen of degraded humanity, by appeals
to coyetousness, passion, or any similar emo
tional sensibility, for the purpose Of revenging
the real or fancied wrong to infiict personal
injury on his enemy, the law of morality
and true responsibility holds him as prin-
cipal in such injury; he is the arch-villain,
on whose soul rests the baseness of the crime.
And the weight of that crime hangs no less
heavily on him for any specious pretext OF
words by which he may seek to ward of the
deadening responsibility, which must oppress
him, despite his determined opposition to the
dictates of unbiased conscience.
Nor can he conclude the letter without
falling into downright Misrepresentation.
"This act Of Gov Wright, in this case, is
the more remarkable on account of its juxta-
position to a case wherein a similar principle
in respect to acquisitions was involved. Not
a wear had elapsed since Gov. Wright had
made requisition on Gov. Powell, of Ken
lucky, for the delivery of citizen of that
State, who, on TIE soil of Indiana, had COM
mitted crime against her laws. Gov. Pow
ell promptly refused compliance, on the
ground that in Kentucky the offence charged
was no crime. SO much more sacred are the
claims Of Slavery than the claims of Free
dom.
This statement we arc authorized to say
from the best personal evidence is absolutely
false. Gov. Wright has never made a re-
QUESTION ON Gov. Powell which has not been
complied with, and there is very little reason
to suppose that there ever will be any dis
agreement on matters of such plain diplo
macy as this. The constitution of the United
States gives plain and indisputable directions
for the treatment of such cases. But says
the Pittsburgh Gazette:
"The doctrine of the Slave States, that
their laws extend over the free States, and
that a man residing in Indiana can commit, in.
that State an offence against the laws Of
Kentucky without setting foot within her
territorial jurisdiction, is monstrous and infa-
nous. An attempt was made to enforce 1t IN
1886, when public sentiment was much less
advanced than now, but it failed;and IT would
not acquire importance now had not the Gov
crnor of Indiana, by issuing the requistion for
Mr. Mccormick, acknowledged his belief in
its propriety 1t has, therefore, to be mot
again; and the sooner it is successfully resist
ed the better for the safety of the free States.
Under the sway of such principle no man
ia the free States would be secure.
This case, in connection with that of Pass
E more Williamson, reveals to us the policy OF
the South and the necessity Of Union to re-
sist her arrogant demands. Under the ruling
of Judge Kane, slaveholderhas the right TO
bring his slaves into any free State and hold
: them there; and now, under the construction
! given to the laws by Gov Wright, the laws
of kentucky extend over the Union, and any
Pennsylvania may be demanded upon re-
. ouisition for violation of them. Is it mol
I time that the people of the North were look
ing about them to see where they stand, ant
e to inquire if their rights are not worth de
IT fending?"
d "Mnstyous and intamousf' This is strang
i language when compared with the constitu
: ton, from whicn we extract Art. ~, Sec. 2
d "The citizens of each State shall be entitled
/ to all the privileges and immunities of citi
= zens in the several States.
"A person charged in any State, witt
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall fle
q from justice, and be found in another Stat
/ shall, on demand of the Executive authorit
+ of the State from which he fed, be delvere
Mt up to be removed to the State having iuri:
IL diction of the crime"
So much for the constitution of the Unite
States, than which there is no higher antho
u | it, ir, the Western Emnire Rnt savs Ii