Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-05-27

utes the Court, the marshals, and the
spectators were unable to keep their
faces sober. Why else did they go
on the house! They did not expect to
ind nisgers. like the Pharisees. saying
their prayers on the house tops? Ii
the eommandant of these forces took
any military view OF the matter, this
must have Deen his intention. lie had
commission IN his pocket from Com
missioner Newhall. stamped with The
broad seal. the radiant iustre Of the
Republic. in his jacket pocket That
banner in which you so delight was
with him. Yes, we see that banner
W hieh has carried defiance and death
to- all its foes, which has Redeemed the
sea with the blood OF its enemies, that
emblem OF the majesty OF the United
States, spread out over them, anu
snaked into transom window
What did the nigger do? Hadn't he
right to fear kidnappers? That poor
nigger didn't know who was coming;
no drum or file announced that the
majesty of the United States WAS
coming into the transom window. head
foremost, and SO the nigger stabbed
the intruder, and majesty cavcd in,
and snaked itself back. What was to
be done? The advance guard OF the
army has been repulsed with loss
Cufe has shown pluck. The interests
of humanity and the preservation of
the Union demand something. And
so impetuous Kentuckian blazes away
at somebody All he knew about
whom, was that this liar and perfdi-
GUS scoundrel had told him, and he
fires away careless whether the ball
enter the heart Of the negro man or the
breast of the negro woman.
Here is a Thermopylm! Three hun
dIed patriots fell there. One of our
Leonidases was struck here And so
the man fires through the door at some
body. The whole majesty of the Uni
ted States firing at random!
Is that the calm tread Of law, or
the rush of mob? Law requires that
before you lay hand upon me You
show your authority? Did these men
do that?
Well, the MarShals get into the
room, the city is taken, two niggers
are captured, not, as in Christian
countries. to hospital, but to Court
room. There, the man rcek ing with
his blool. almost dying as if to pre-
figure the other Judgment seat is made
over to the claimant. He fingers
few wceks. and then goes up to that
.other Court where the laws of Ken
tucky no longer apply to him. The
woman is delivered over with her hus-
band and is now in the hands of some
one who claims to lie her owner. NV
client knowing that process is issued
against him. and not having the money
to conduct defense leaves the city
and YOU know the rest Mr.. Corwin
then pressed the point Of the disbelief
by eminent jurists in the principle that
a slave taken into free State by his
master is slave any longer. and kcd
ii there is any law to require his client
TO know more than Judge Mills and
Mclean, and other profound jurists
did?
The frown of power is fixed on him,
the executive department of the gov
ernmcnt commands him to bc arrested,
AMI the judicial department has him
indicted-because he hasn't read Ben
Munroc, for that's what it amounts to.
The District Attorney thinking hat
the venerable judge beg your hon
or's pardon, but you have SO long oc-
cupied high places OF trust that we
think you enerable-didn't know
Kentucky law, brings Kentucky
lawyer to teach him. and indicts
newspaper reporter for not knowing
more than his honor!
Gentlemen, have you ever heard OF
any dcspotism which has more effect
ual contrivances for torture, torment
and confinement than has been here
applied? am not here to censure,
but did 1t become this mighty Repub-
lie, the most imposing Republic in the
world, covering one-tenth of the globe,
to chase this poor newspaper reporter
from the Queen City of the West to
the commercial metropolis of the
Western World. persecute and fix
the VOLTS head upon him? Don't
You rejoice to know that you are citi
zens of such a country? And all this
has been done because my client has
determined the law as Judge Mclean
has determined it, Judge Mclean
SAYS that YOU have a right to shelter
and feed fugitivcs; but Judge Mclean
is not indicted. while Connolly V who
acted upon his decision is. Suppose
YOU send him to prison, WON'T you feel
happy to know what You have done for
the country?
When the future Tacitus or Herodo-
tus of our country records this days
work as the turning point in our ma
tion's history, how will your grand
children cxult that Won had part in
it. | shall feel myself honored, al
though am opposed to killing a man
because he hadn't read Ben Monroe
Yes. Cunning to Mr.. Matthews. hon
cstly opposed, for / have DO fee. 1t
would be the greatest absurdity in the
world for me to expect one from my
client, a poor newspaper reporter, who
hasn't got any money. and never will
have. man who eats Bologna sausa-
ges!
If you have dramatic ideas you may
imagine the figure we shall make in
some epic. The twelve honest jurors
and Corwin and Matthews next to
Washington and Jefferson. Wash
inrfnn and .Ieffarson and Eranklin and