Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-06-09
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, June 2.I
WAR OF THE MARSHALS AND THE
suEDIEEo

On the trial of the habeas corpus, sued out by the
United States Marshal to obtain the release OF ms
Deputies from the custody OF the Sheriff OF Cisrk
county, which came up before Judge Leavitt, yester'
day. the facts OF the affair pretty clearly ascer'
tanned There is very full report of the testimony
in our local column Though the case is not closed,
We have the evidence Of the Sheriff himself ana That
of the Marshal, md they concur sufficiently IN Inc
main facts to enable US to form very clear anu a'
tinct view of the case.
There has been no eIaggeration OF the hagrancy Of
the assaults on and indgnity to the authority OF the
United StRtes and Of the injuries and insults onereu
to the men who were engaged in serving me Wits Oh
the highest court in the land The testimony IN Inc
case shows that the Sheriff of Clark county wac fully
aware OF the official character and authority OF Inc
officers of the United States who had arrested Ger.
tain parties agains. whom there were WARRANTS lseueu
from the United States Commissioner In this Guy lot
violation of the Fugitive Slave Law; That he Oh.
tanned writ of hnbeas corpus from county court
aud, with desperate of police officer, proceeded
to intercept the officers and without even exhibiting
his authority declaring hd character, drew his P''
to and endeavor to shoot the Deputy Marshale'
while his Assisant actually did snap and hre DIS ps'
tol twice at the officers.
Foied however in their efforts, the cry went forth
through the fanatcal regions OF Greene, Champaign
and Clark-a cry invented and raised by the dena-
gogues in that region, that gang OF hentuoAlan'
were kidnapping and carrying of certain OF the GU
zens. The object was TO excite the passions OF me
Ignorant and violent and ins,igate them 10 join IN the
oray against the authorities of the United Sta'es-
The parties who we're active in overcoming the MAJ
shas by their superior force and releasing the PIT
soners in their custody, fully cognzant OF me
falsehood of these pretexts and of the authority OF
the United States officers. They acted knowingly 10
the matter, accompanying their action by WORDS auu
acts Of the most aggravating and insulting
Gathering in superior force, they fell upon the Ds
and pistols arrested them. delivering their prisoners
to the Sheriff of Champaign county, and bearing Inc
Deputy Marshals TO Springfield, where they were 10
carcerated literally in dungeon-eisht men, naVing
the commission and authority OF the united otate''
the officers of the highest judicial tribunal under the
Cepsritutiop-bsng crowded into one small, hihy
room, in q basement and without windows or Ven'ma
tion and subjected other outrsges that would us
grace a semi.barbarous people.
While The Marshals we're thus confined, ihelr prl'
soners are hurried of to Urbans IN Champaign
County and on bogus writ of hadeaS corpus agains'
lone Churchill, United States Marshall Is pre-
tended, by hypocritical, traitorous and cowaray
Sheriff and Judge, that the said Marshal mas oeen
duly notified to attend and chow cause why tne pr
sonsr should not be discharged that he has failed 10
appear; and the Judge orders that his name be cried
at The door OF the Court House, when ne ana Ms one
riff have been already instrumental IN haVing Inc
Deputy Marsbals imprisoned aud detained by force
| in Springfield, twenty miles off,
There is something more than the ordinary law
lessuess aud violence of Abolition treason IN all THIS
1t ID cold booded, base, cowardly, fraudulent ny
pocrtoal conspiracy to disbonor, degrade and tram
pie upon the individuals in the employ OF the FED
eral Government to bring the authority OF the U MOI
and its highest tribunals into contempt to render I'M
laws of Congress null and void within the state o
| Ohio, and make her name odious throughout I'M
States, as the favorte arena Of dsunonism' iawess
and faithl- to her obligations and duties
| one Of The confederacy.
| Under these circumstance. we are glad to know
that the defense of the authority OF the Fedora
Court, in such matters, is ntrusted to trm ant
telegraphic instructions from the President to 20
| that the laws are executed at all bs1ards.