Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-08-08
ABRAHAM BROOKE. Marlboro,
Alliance.
CONTINUED PERSECUTION OF THE AEo.
PIE OF MECHANICSBURGH. w
Paramount.

The citizens of this little village are suffering
continued persecution and annoyance because
they refused to aid the United States Marshals in
capturing a poor lone refngse, when with ope
crack Of his musket, he put four sturdy Williams to
flight, Notwithstanding they were the representa-
tives of the power and dignity of the Federal Gov
crnment. Ohio is not yet sufficiently debsse1,
not even since GovernorChase' lumiliating lauda.
ton of the Union at Baltimore. More arrests are
yet needed and more have been made.
Says the Cincinnati Gazette of last week. Uni
ted States Deputy Marshels Churchill and Elliott
arrested Russell Hyde, Charles Taylor, David
Rutan, Magistrate, and T. W. Greenough, more
parties in this protracted and tedious case, at
Mechanicsburgh, their place of residence, and
brought them to the city yesterday morning. Ru-
tan was discharged, and went bail with Mr.. Buff
finger in 81 500 for each, for tie appearance of
the other three next Tuesday.
Judge Baldwin was discharged, and a noHe pros
equi issued in the case of Price Morris and AFRO
L.. Mann, who were also discharged.
On Friday after frequent delays and postpone
ments, before United States Commissioner New
hall, Sheriff Clark and Ex-senator Jos. G. Brand, of
Champagne county, were ARA inged upon the
charge of resisting the process of the United
States, in Green county, on the Both ult.
Judge Stanley Mathews. United States District
Attorney, appeared for the Government, and
Judge VIM. B. Caldwell, Judge John A. Corwin,
Rodney Mason, Esq, for the State.
The United States Deputy Marshals. Churchill
and Elliott, were the only witnesses who testified
Their evidence was mostly a recapitulation of
what has been before published in this case.
These Deputy Marshals have it delightfully."-
their OWN way. They arrest whom they please
and "are the only Witnesses" against the Y victims
of their arrogance and persecution. Where is
Attorney General Wolcott, with his threat to take
this question to the utmost extremity of the law ?
His inactivity and silence must be a confession
that he can do nothing more. What u delightful
state of freedom do we possess How grandly
imposing is our State sovereignty, when citizens,
Advocates, Magistrates, Sheriffs, Judges and
Senators can be siezed at pleasure on the oath of
official kidnappers, dubbed such by the dozen or
score as the case may require. Then these same
scoundrels execute their own yrits and are their
own witnesses in the case. The power of the
courts is %nullifed, our state la ws spit upon. The writ
of habeas corpus suspended and our citizens left
without tho shadow of protection to the mercy Of
that infamous tool of the slave power, a slave.
catching Commissioner. And this is the personal
liberty we enjoy in Ohio under the Administrative
of "the party for Freedom" And in the very
thickest Of those disgraceful events, Governor
Chase goes to the Baltimore Shareholders and
lauds the Union, the very instrument of all thes,
outrages
When will the people of Ohio awake to the fac
e that their liberties are gone-that they hola then
e only by their submission TO the slave power p
and that the Union is the detestable instrumental
ity by which their liberties have been over
4 thrown.
:, The obscure village of Mechanicsburgh is nc
, the only place where this despotic power reaches
. The people of Salem of Warren of Ravenna, {
i Cleveland and of every town and hamlet in tn
state are liable to the same outrages unless the