The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-06-03
The Champaign Co. Slave Case
-Four White Men Arrested.
IFrom the Ohio Statesman.l


We published a few days ago an &C.
count from the Urbana Citizen, Of an
attempt of a deputy U. S. Marshal and
some Kentuckians, to arrest an alleged
fugitive slave, named Addison, at Me
chanicsburgt Champaign county, but
who wero driven off by Addison and his
friends, without having captured their
human game, We have just learned
from a friend, that another attempt was
made yesterday by the man-hunters to
capture Addison, but upon their arrival
at the place they discovered that he had
three days before left the free soil Of
Ohio for Canada, to enjoy that freedom
which is denied him in his native laud.
Finding the negro had escaped their
clutches, the man-hunters arrested four
white citizens, namely Charles and Ed
ward Taylor, Russell Hyde, and H.
Guthridge, and immediately made tracks
for Cincinnati. Ichabod Corwin, Esq,
of Urbana, as soon as he heard of the
transaction, got out a writ of habeas
corpus, and started in pursuit. At
Springfield he got on their track, and at
London, when our informant left, Icha-
bod was close upon their heels, they hav-
ing only about half an hour the start of
him. He will probably run down the
hunters before they reach their kennell
in Cinciunati.-O. S. Journal
With what rubbing of hands and evi
dent gusto the State Journal relishes
the escape of Addison and the capture
of the captors of his friends and abet-
ors? The conflict between State Of
fcials under a State court, with U. S..
officials under the direction of a U. s
tribunal, seems to be keenly enjoyed
Well, go On We shall see what it will
come to.
The "~local" of the Enquirer, of this
morning, furnishes tho following de
nougnfe t.:
"The party of officials, as we have it
from verbal report, was not able to find
the negro-he having been smart enough
to take the Underground Railroad
train but they took into custody, as
we are advised. some six of the aforesaid
ssecial conductors of the Underground
Express. The officers and their pris-
oners, yesterday morning, had safely
progressed SO far on their way as to
Xenia, when their further progress. was
arrested by a local official springing up:
on them with a writ of hu6eas corpus, is
sued by some State Judge in Clark Co.
This local official had for aid a large
gang of aboli,ionists, of Springfield and
Xenia, and sufficiently strong to over
power the Deputy Marshals, who were
there arrested and taken back to Spring
field. Thus the tables were completely
turned. The arrested parties were dis
charged out of the custody of the depu-
ties, and the latter were Jugded, and
are now living upon the Vapors of a
dungeon"
What will be the finale we can scarce
ly conjecture. The Enquirer has the
following remarks in its editorial col
umns
GREAT Observation-Disclosures TO THE
OFFIcERs OF THE UNITED STATES The
facts which we give in our local column,
from an authentic and reliable source,
of the arrest of the U. s. Deputy Mar
shall, at Xenia, in this State, while en-
gagged in the execution of a writ issued
by the U. S. Commissioner, are of a very
grave and serious character. We in
vite the attention of our READERS to the
facts. They show one of the most au-
dacious instances of defiance of the au-
thority Of the Unitod States Courts that
has ever occurred in the country-one
which, if not vigorously suppressed and
L Ill ID. A. o-4Ia- 49,
dignity of the Federal Government con.
temptible before the world. We shall
await the further development Of this af-
fair, before we trust ourselves to speak
of it in such terms as it deserves.