The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-31

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The Late Aboissson Revolutionary Proceed
lWss In Ohlo.-What Next!
According to our Geographic advices, on Tues
day last the Deputy United States Marshal and
eleven assistants left Cincinnati to arrest four
persons In Mechanicsburg, Champaign county,
up In the interior Of the State of Ohio, charged
with harboring fugitive slaves nine months ago.
The accused parties were arrested on Wedoes
cay, when writ of habess corpus was sued out in
their behalf; but before il could be served, the
United States officers en- rou,e to Cincinnati, were
beyond the bounds of the county. They were,
however, pursued through the next county, which
is Clark, and were overhsuled in the next, which
is Green, where another writ was taken out and
served by the Sheriff, assisted by sort of possc
ccnnisatus, in the form of volunteer mob A
collision ensued. Several shots we're exchanged
between the conflicting parties; the United States
officers were overpowered, and Is prisoners were
taken back to Springfield, in Clark county, foe
trial for resisting the Sheriff in the discharge Of
his duty.
Now. c0nceding that in this case the Sheriff
and his posse believed they were right; concedng
that under the State laws and authorities they
will be sustained, as having done their duty
this whole proceeding becomes revo-
lutionary proceeding on the part of
the State of Ohio against the supreme laws Of all
the land, which are first the federal constitution.
and, secondly, the laws carrying out the provi-
siops of the constitution and the decisions of the
Supreme Court defining aud aficming them.
The federal constitution provides that in the
event Of the escape of fugitive slave from his
master into free State, he shall not be s1nug-
eled off into Canada, but shall be secured aud
returned to his master. In pursuance of this pro-
vision the Fugitive Slave law OF 1850 was p assed
imposing certain pains and penalties for the Of
fence of resistance to the federal officers engaged
in the duty of recapturing and returning rnoa-
way slave to his master. These underground
railroad agents of Champaign county, Ohio, were
charged with having laid themselves subject to
these pains and penalties and, as in daty bound
the deputy United States Marshal and bis as
sstants proceeded to arrest the offenders aud
bring them before the proper court for trial.
While proceeding to his destination with his pri-
soners, this deputy marshal Is overtaken 10y a
local Sheriff, with his writ Of hsbeas cor
pus for the prisoners; and it is just here
that the Sheriff and his pose were guilty of
higher crime against the laws and against the
good order and harmony Of tho country than
those akulkiug underground railroad fugitive
elave agents which the Sheriff came to rescue.
10 the case of Slocum VS.. Msybery Ct al. q
Wheaton, /, 81 the Supreme Court Of the United
States has decreed that the courts of the United
States have supreme jurisdiction of all seizures
made on land and water for breach Of the laws
Of the United States, and any intervention Of
State authority, which, by taking the thing
seized out OF the hands Of United States officer.
might obstruct the exercise Of this Jurisdiction is
Illegal" We take IL for granted that the term
thing" in this connection, will legally apply to
each of these meu arrested by the Ohio deputy
United States Marshal; that the Intervention aud
rescue effected by the local Sheriff did invade the
United States jurisdiction, and was intended to
obstruct and to nullfy the laws and supreme
authority of the United States This view Of the
entire jurisdiction OF this case lie sustained by the
late opinion Of Judge Kane, Of Philadelphia,
upon the habess corpus case OF Passmore Will
Hanson.
The spirit and substance of the constitutional
provision respecting fugitive slaves are lost If
the offenders against this supreme compact, aud
against the laws passed to enforce it, may BE-
spirited away or forcibly rescued and shielded
from punishment by mob or by nullifying State
laws Under such violent conflict OF authori-
ties, federal and State-the latter multiplying the
binding supremacy Of the former-the harmony Of
our whole federal system Is invaded, the Integrity
of the Union is endangered, aud the constitution
becomes mere thing Of shreds aud patches
The present State government and State au-
thorities, and the popular sympathies Of Ohio,
are intensely black republican. The KansasNe-
braska bill, the border ruaian doings in Kansas.
and the bred Scott decision, haze furnished the
party capital requisite 10 keep alive and 10 active
effervescence this condition Of things among the
predominant New England population Of Ohio
But in this case their notification proceedings
must be met by the strong hand, after the fashion
Of General Jsokson's treatment of the South
Csro,ina nnlli6ers Of 1928. We believe that
Mr. Buchanan possesses the necessary decision Of
character, and the necessary discretion, to main
this case without bloodshed, and to bring the Of