Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-12
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Il Ans11he1 EnerGaeA9ent.
The decisioa in The recent fugitive slave Cases
In Cincinnsd, we conceive 70 be another viola-
ton of SUITE rights By the Federal authorities
1 The facts OF the cases were, that While claim
i for the fugitiyes was under investigation, the
United States Commissioner, for the safe keep
4 ing Of the persons claimed had ordered them to
be confined In the Jail Of Hamilton county, TO
i be brought before him from time TO time as he
| might adjudge necessary. The Commissioner,
on the 10Th Of February, issned an order 70 the
| sheriff, requiring him to produce the bodies Of
1 al the alleged fngitiyes-seyen in number-in
the morning Of the next day At 10 o'clock, to an
swer to his final judgment in the premises. In
! pursuance Of this order, the Marshall made an
attempt TO get possession of the persons referred
/ to, but the sheriff refused to permit him to take
from the jail four of the fugitives--the return
of the sheriff setting forth, as the ground of his
refusal, that the grand jury of Hamilton county,
| having previously returned bill of Indictment
against these four persons for the crime of muir
der in the first degree, writ Of cdpids was du-
ly issued on the Goth Of February, commanding |
him to take the said persons into his custody to
answer said charge; and that, on the same day, |
pursuant to the command OF said writ he arrest
ed them, then being in the jail of Hamilton |
county upon the order for their commitment by |
the Commissioner, az before stated, and made |
a return of such arrest on the writ of capias, |
and the sheriff claimed that he WAS rightfully in I
the possession of these persons in virtue of these
proceedings and could not surrender them to |
the Marshal on bis claim.
In giving the decision of the Court, Judge |
Leavitt said that .'f the four persons named in |
the writ of habsds corpus were at the time of
their arrest by the Sheriff in the custody Of the |
Marshal, under process issued by authority of |
law of the United States, do not see how that
custody can be superseded" The result was the
giving up Of the slaves to the Marshal, and their
return to bondage in neutrality-suspicious.
ing they had been guilty of violating criminal
law of Ohio
Does any one suppose that fugitive from Ca
NADIA, charged with burglary, would be returned,
after having committed murder in any of the
States? No such course would be taken, but he
would be delivered over for trial for the higher
crime. The sovereign of the soil has the SUI
perior right in such matters and no convention
al arrangement, like that existing between the
States and the Federal Government, can vitiate
this right. The authorities Of Ohio were craven
that they did not insist upon vindicating the
right of the State against Federal usurpaticn.
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BORDER RUFFIANIsM IN CHICAGo.-A BASE
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE GERMAN NEWSPAPER.
On Wednesday afternoon, after the process
sion had broken up, and the great mass Of the
males and females who composed it, had retire
ed to complete their orgies elsewhere, a gang of
rufiians, who had been under pay of the leading
Nebraska men, during the campaign just closed,
went to the office of the Stats Zeitung, on Wa
ter, and commenced hooting and making all sorts
of hdeous noises in the German language. They
had coffin, which they paraded about the door
and an image of Captain Schneider the able and
accomplished editor of the Zetung which were
burnt. They also procured copies of his paper,
and burnt them singly, and made great noise
over it. D
They also made certain inaanmatory speech
es against Captain Schneider. They called him
an Abolitionist and said he ought to be mobbed
out of town. One of them said they must pitch
the Office out of doors. They made rush to
do so, but in the mean time respectable Ger
ma reorganization fcallcd the Turner's had rallied
for the defence of the Office, and dared these
moi ocrats to lay their hands on it in any respect
whatever. They finally gave them notice to be
off in five minutes, and the drunken rascals
made themselves scarce.
We learn that, nearly all of them were stran-
gers in the city and most of them were drunk.
When they left they all rushed to Cooks sa-
loon to boast to the faithful of the wonderful feat
which they had accomplished. ...
The man who got up the whole thing, under
the advice of the Nebraska leaders, is compare
tive stranger in our city. He was one of the |
numerous men imported to this State from the
South by Judge Douglas, to instruct the heather
of the North as to the merits of the institution
of slavery.
We congratulate the editor of the Zeitung on
the high compliment which these scamps have
paid him. A man is known quite as much by
his enemies as by his friends. The men who
would Justify mobbing presses in Kansas would
mob them in Chicago were they not afraid of the
Chicago Democrat
R. L. B. CLARKE.-This gentleman, who has
been in Washington City, contesting the seat of
A. Hall, in the House of Representatives,
reached home last week. We understand he in
tends returning in few days, He started from
Washington with the intention Of attending the
Republican Convention at Iowa City on the 22d,
but was delayed OH the road by the detention of
the cars running off the track, &c.
On the 2lst ult on motion of Mr.. Giddings,
his petition was referred to the committee on
elections, where it will undoubtedly receive the
proper attention. Mr.. Clarke, if he has the op-
portunity, will, no doubt, be able to show up in
no favorable light, the dongs of some Of our
Locofoco brethren in reference to their manage
ment of the poll books and election returns in this
district at the last election. Whether he will get
his seat is yet to be decided; but since the memo
rablc stealing of the poll books in the case of
Miller and Thompson, it is hard to tell what
means the tInterrfed have used to secure the
seat to A. Hall. Mr.. Clarke should, at least,
have the power given him by the House to show
up this election in its proper light as con-
Quoted by Hall Brother. The seat may be of
incalculable Importance in case the next presi
dental election should 60 into the House, as it
is likely to do. The way the matter now stands
Iowa will be tied in that event, and consequent.
ly have no voice in the election of President
1t is evident that there is some futtering in |
the camp, as Hall (brother) and Thompson of
ancient poll book notoriety, were called OFT to !
Washington City on short notice few weeks
since Mt. Pleasant Observer.
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PAINFUL OCCURRENCE-BoY DROwNED.--1es- |
terday afternoon about o'clock, as the steam
err Paul Jones was effecting landing at the foot
of Market street, little boy, name unknown, |
| about eight years ofage, in attempting to jump
from another boat to the Paul Jones, accidental
ly fell into the river and drifted out into the cnr-
rent The little fellow battled manfully with |
the waves and kept on the surface for at least
| the distance of square and half down the riv
err when he gave out and sank. In the mean
time boat had been lowered but came too late
to rescue him. A large number of persons col
lected at once, but none seemed to make any
effort to save him. st. Louis Democrat.
THE PRoHlBlroRY LAw.--We learn that the
decision of the Supreme Court involving the
constitutionality of the Prohibitory Law, will
be delivered ON the reassembling of the Court in
| April 1t has been the determination of the
| Judges to render their decision at as early a day
| as possible, and it would probably have been
| given before the recess, but for the fact that
| two of these cases for Scott County, did no
come in sufficiently early to be adjudicated till
after the recess was taken. The court has