Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-17
The Ohio Slave Case.

The OHIO slave CaSos
The issue between Federal and State authority in
Ohio is now fully made. We have confidence in the
administration and look to see the federal power
maintained In justice to the South, for the nteg'
rty of the Constitution and the preservation OF the
Union, it must be sustained. The Governor OF
Ohio is traitor of the deepest dye and ought to be
hung high is necessary to choke his life out
The Cincinnati Enquirer thus speaks of the matter :
The PROGRESS OF TIE TREAsoN.-Gov. Chase has
sanctioned, justified, adopted and countenanced the
infamous conduct of the Sheriff and people of the
underground railroad countless in their violent and
outrageous conduct towards the U. S. Deputy Mar
shas in the recent affair in Green. He has instruct
ed requested the Attorney General of this State,
who is of the same school of pestient Abolition de-
magogues that Chase is proud of being at the head
Of to appear, in behalf of the Sheriff of Clark coun-
ty to resist the application for writ of habeas cor
pus to relieve the United States Marshal from the
custody of said Sheriff:
We trust that the President will order the Attor-
ney General of the United States to appear in be.
half of the authority and dignity Of the United
States, so that distinct issue may be joined and
the question settled at once whether the Sheriff can,
upon bogus writs from little State Courts arrest and
incarcerate ofcersofthe United States for merely
ecuting the wrs Of the Courts of the United States.
This designation of the Attorney General, by the
Governor, to aid the three or four lawyers already
retained for the Sheriff of Clark is equivalent to a
declaration of the part of Chase and his ab.
clifton crew against the United States Courts. Let
the war come-the sooner the better.
There never was more outrageous case of resis-
lance to the authority of the United States. In 9TH
err cases there has been some color shade of pre-
tcxt!-some vagueness in the law, or looseness in
the execution of the writs, but in this there is
such pretense The ground is openly taken that /"
silly, unconstitutional, nulifying act OF the Legsla
ture, giving to State Courts the power to issue wrts
of habeax co,pus serviceable in every part of the
State against all persons, well officers of the
United States all others, having individuals in Gus
tody, shall he put into effect, to render null
and void an act of Congress- Chase steps forward
to justify and maintain this law. Nay, more, he ap
pears, through his instrument, the Attorney Gencr-
al, the champion and defender Of one of the most
outrageous audacious and cowardly of wrong,
insult and contumely to the officers of the United
States that ever occurred in the cOuEtry-in which
the officers, having prisoners in the their custody,
under lawful writ, overpowered by force, were
committed to pestilental dungeon, and there kept
until their prisoners could be taken twenty miles
off, and then released by n pretended process, in
which the Marshals we called upon to appear and
show These acts not only justified, but the
further custody of the States officers is claimed and
insisted upon through the influence of some village
pettfoggcrs who come to Cincinnati to advertise
themselves Tor Abolition patronage by denouncng
the arrogance and usurpation of the United States
Executive in the Courts of the Union. Chase adds
the Attorney General to them, and to-day the patri
otto citizens Of this city to be subjected to the
disgust of seeing the laws and the tribunals of this
Government impugned, scofed at and de6ed by the
officers of the State of Ohio