The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-06-18

Arrest of Fugitive Slaves in Cincinnati
| Their Desperate Resistance-OMce er
Elliott Stabbed--.One of the Slaves
Shot---Wounds Probably Mortal.
Another terrible tragedy took place in
Cincinnati last Saturday, growing out OF
an attempt to execute the infamous fugi-
tive slave lava law which never has
been, and never can be. enforced peaceably,
until tie masses ofthe people of the North
transform themselves into blood hounds,
and disregard the first principles of free
government and the sacred obligations oi
the Christian religion.
Two slaves a man and his wife, the
property under the laws of Kentucky oi
G. A. Withers, residing in Covington,
made their escape on Saturday OF week
before last, and secreted themselves in a
fourth story room of building near the
Cincinnati Post Office The Cincinnati
Times states that Mr. Withers had been
the owner of the negro man but a few
months, that he bought him at the solici
tation of the slave woman, his wife to pre-
vent his being sent South, and that the
slaves made their escape while Mr. W.
was absent with the excursionists at St.
Louis.
Mr.. Withers having obtained intelh-
geuce which led him to believe the fugi-
tives were secreted in room No. 18 of a
building next the Gazette office, on Vine
Street. set FIVE willing men and woman
hunters, who disgrace the offices of u.
is. Marshals and Deputies of the Southern
District of Ohio, in pursuit. The Tines
says:
The parties who visited the room for
the purpose Of making the arrest were
Churchill, Anderson, Elliot, Lowe, Wood
ard, Carly and Davis. They were not
informed the fugitives were in room No.
l8 until 90 minutes before they repaired
thither.
When they repaired to the room, one
Of them knocked, but received no reply,
when Elliott opened the transom above
the door and looking through exclaimed:
"They must be here, for here's their
dinner!''
He then put his head further through
the transom and exclaimed.
Eyes, here they are!''
He then endeavored to crawl through,
when he was stabbed by the negro, with
long dirk belonging to dirk cane. The
pannel of the door was then knocked out,
and one of the party shot the negro, and
subsequently the two fugitives were arres-
ted and taken before Commissioner New
hall, in one of the rooms of the Custom
House, where their owner appeared, and
after proving them to be fugitiyes, and
his slaves, they were delivered to him,
and straight-way taken to Kentucky.
On the person of the negro when first
arrested, was found long dirk knife,
common table knife, and the scabbard to
the dirk with which he stabbed Elliott.
Elliott, as soon as he was stabbed, walk
down the steps and across the street to
the Custom House, with pistol in his
hand. He was noticed by some bystand-
ers, and assisted up the steps into the room
of the officers, back of the District Court
room. The negro and his wife were also
brought over to the Custom House and
placed in one of the rooms.
DIR. Blackman was called in to exam
inc the wound of Marshal Elliott, and ex-
pressed the opinion that internal hemor-
rhage had taken place-the blood issuing
from an incision in the arm, which the
Doctor saw proper to make, gave evidence
of such fact. He is of the opinion that
the wound may prove mortal.
The Cleveland Herald SAYS:
The arrests in Cincinnati were made
by some ofthe same gang ofprofessional
slave -catchers who, when foiled by the
bravery of a single negro they attempted
to hunt down in Champaign county, seized
three or four white citizens, and while
running them off too Cincinnati, were
stopped by the civil authorities, the citi-
zens rescued, and the marshals arrested
for their outrages on the Sheriff of Clark
county, who was so mal-treated by the
drunken rowdies that his life is endangef-
ed. Churchill, Anderson, Elliott and
Carly figure in both transactions and
John G. Elliott, of Hamelton, door keep
er of the Buchanan Convention, and SO
severely stabbed in Cincinnati, is the same
Elliott thatthe negro Addison drove down
the ladder in Champaign county, nerved
by the cry of "give me liberty OF give me
death !" Should the stab prove fata
the popular verdict will be ''Served him
right"
No R1GHTs THAT A WHITE MAN Is
Bound TO REsPEcr.-The now famous
and bominable sentiment, that the Afri
can race has no rights that the white mar
is bound to respect, uttered by Judge Ta
ney. in his opinion in the Dred Scott case
may be found on page 400 Of the official
I.ly published copy of that opinion, and oc
ours as follows:
"They, j. e. the African race, had fol
more than a century been regarded as be
ings of an inferior order, and although un
fit to associate with the white race, eithel
in social or political relations: and so fa
inferior, that they had no rights aohich til
scsite mum soas bound to respect; and tha
the negro might justly and lawfully b
reduced to slavery for his benefit"
Judge fancy will be dishonorably re