Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-01
TBe 9a'Ip Spp.
A,o,her Noble vindicatIon Of State
Rights.

Rights
The telegraph brings us the intelligence of
hold maintenance Of State rights on the part OF
the citizens Of the glorious Buckeye State
1t seems that Deputy United States Marshal
Churchill and eleven assistants left CINCINNATI
on Tuesday, to arrest persons at Meehamcsourg'
Ohio. charged with harboriug fugitive slaves nine
months ago. The arrest was made on Wednes-
day, when writs Of habeas corpus were taken out,
lint before they could be served the United States
officers were beyond the bounds of the county
with their prisoners. Another writ was taken out
in Green county, and there served by the Sheriff,
assisted by a large crowd of citizens. The Uni
ted States officers resisted, and several shots
were fred, but they we're finally OrerPoloered and
became prisoners They were then taken to
Springfield for trial for resisting the Sheriff IN
dschareing his duty. Great excitement prevailed
in the vicinity. THE United States Marshal at
Cincinnati promptly telegraphed to the Secretary
Of the Interior, for instructions regarding the ar
rest and imprisonment Of the deputies at Spring
field. but the nature Of the instructions received
in reply has not transpired United States Dis
trict Judge Leayitt has issued writ of habeas
corpus and Marshal has gone to Springfield to
serve it. In case resistance is offered, 1t is re.
ported that United States troops will be called
out, but we trust Uncle Sam will come to the
conclusion, in this matter, that discretion Is the
better part of valor,n he has in the Wisconsin
case and desist from pressing the matter farther.
So it appears we may have, in Ohio, a repeti-
ton Of the scenes connected with the Glover res
cue ia Wisconsin, where Booth was taken from
L O.. for
participation in that rescue, and set at liberty by
the decision Of Chief Justice Smith of the Su'
preme Court ofthat State. Would that the great
State of Ohio had at this time Chief Justice Of
the same stamp But nous DerrOns.
AS the circumstances of the Wisconsin case |
may not at this time be sufficiently fresh with I
our readers we give the following extract from
letter. dated New York, March, II, last, in the
late Boston Telegraph. The suggestions therein
contained are very pertinent to the present case,
and worthy to be followed in every case of the
kind likely to arise in any other free State where
there are State authorities of the right kind, as
there should be, to put them through
1.-THE decision of the Supreme Court at Wash
ington in the bred Scott case, isreeeiving atten-
ton in our Legislature, as well as in your own.-
It is to be hoped that it will be made to run the
gauntlet through the Legislatures OF all the
Northern States, and that in some of them the
question of State rights shall be fairly tested -
Wisconsin set a good example in the case of
Booth but one, it would seem, which is not gen
orally understood, as have yet to see the first
reference to it in any of the newspapers-and
see good many--which are discussing with so
much zeal the remedy the North has in the new
position in which she is placed by this decision of
the Supreme Court. Booth, you will remember,
was imprisoned for aiding in the escape of a man
claimed as fugitive slave. Judge Smith, the
Chief Justice of the State of Wisconsin, released
him, on the ground of the unconstitutonality Of
the Fugitive Slave Law
What would you dos' some one asked of Judge
Smith, if the United States District Judge
should again seize Booth, and throw him into
prison 7! Release him again, and put the Dis
trict Judge in his place was the answer. But
Booth has not been Nodded with second time,
and Wisconsin stands, to this moment IN de- |
fensive and defiant relation to the federal gov
rnment. Mr.. Caleb Gushing submitted to the |
will of the sovereign State as quietly as any cur
crouches and submits to his master when he |
kicks him out Of doors. Why have we not the |
same remedy in this case ! Judges Mclean and |
Curtis both pronounce the decision of the Court
as not law. Theirs is good enough authority on |
which the Legislatures of the Northern States |
may pass acts on which they and the federal gov
eminent may try conclusions. We must come to
something of this sort unless, indeed, we mean |
to submit, as the dark lantern papers counsel us
to do, willing to wait for twenty years, as
others suggest, in the hope of getting majority
on the Bench of the Supreme Court, and then re.
versing all its proslavery decisions. Twenty
years where shall we be then, at the rapid rate
with which the slave power has strobe to despot.
ism for the last six years."
The Milwaukee Free Democrat, in publishing
the above, appendS the following remarks in con-
nection herewith
t. a., o,,.n.&;., -. % tbo
question Of the Neos, 1.-THE bunker democratic
organ, why has not Wisconsin army in the
field to enforce the DEGREES of her Supreme
Courts Our neighbOr will find that Wisconsin
will resist whenever the general government dares
to eoerce her, and as long the latter abstains,
no army is necessary but if the federal govern
ment ever should by force of arms endeayor to
overwhelm the State sovereignty Of Wisconsin,
the people will not hesitate to hang few federal
office holders, as traitors to the State, by way Of
example,"
We await intelligence as to further proceedings
in relation to the Ohio case, with great interest.
We fear the Buckeye State has not got Judicial
ny Of sufficient backbone to meet the emergency
in the spirit in which it should be met. But
they have done we'll SO far.
Since writing the above, the telegraph has
brought US the intelligence that Deputy United
States Marshal Churchill and his posse, fifty in
number, who had been arrested, were on Satur-
day bound over under bonds amounting in all to
fftees thousand dollars, for trial before the next
term Of the Common Pleas Court, for resisting
the Sheriff in the discharge of his duty. God be
thanked, Ohio has Governor of the right stamp,
just at this crisis who will do his duty in the vim
dication of State laws and sovereignty, against
federal usurpation, at all hazards. At least, we
shall be greatly mistaken IL he does not