Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

Who is William NJ. Connolly? And OF
what is he convicted? We will tell you,
good friends, very briefly. You remcm-
Der, year or 30 ago, there was cele-
brated "Gainc's Case" in Cincinnati.
That is to say--a very fine looking wo-
man, with three children, together with
her husband. brother, her mother, and
perhaps two or three other friends, came
to Cincinnati, and put up at the house Of
II friend. ELDER Gaines." from Ken
tucky, soon after came to Cincinnati, went
before slave-catching Commissipner,
and swore that this woman, her husband,
her children. her mother, brother and
friends belonged TO him." That is,
somebody had stolen her pare IS, and that
gave him right to sell, and use item as
Ais property. This being very plain prop
.osition. Mr.. slave catching Commissioner.
of course authorized Eldcr Gaiaes te call
upon the forces Of the y S., 10 carry away
this property of his. So tho U. S. Mar
shals, with rabble Of kindred ruffians,
surrounded the house where these people
were. and commenced batteriag down the
daor. This woa,an, rather than have her
children seized by these human blood
hounds, with her own hands, and in the
presence of those scoundrela, succeeded
in killing the youngest, bat before she
could send the others to Heaven by the
same means, she was captured, with all her
friends.
You remember the stir the case made
at the time. The woman was indicted by
the Grand Jury of Hamilton County. Ohio,
for the murder of her child. But if she
was hung, Elder Gaines would lose the
sale of her, and SO there was got up the
celebrated Gaines Case" The case
lasted some days, and as the U. s. pays
for all expenses in catching slaves, it was
a good time for the Marshals. They had,
or at least said they had. tsco hundred of
their precious crew there TO guard this
desperate woman, who had preferred to
kill her infant rather than see IL kidnapped.
In due process of time, Judge Leayitt. who
l'es- 1jast ProhounScd sentence ON CON-
nally, decided that the slaye-holders right,
overrode all other rishts--that the sover-
eighty of Ohio was ahumbug--that any
body might murder half the town, and il in
dicted for it, all he had to do w.s TO geta
loafer TO claim him as a slave. and Ohio
must stop her Courts. and turn him over
TO the claimant. Our readers all remem-
Der this great Gaines Case"
Well, the woman and her friends were
consigned to eternal slavery by Judge
Leavitt, as a matter Of course; and then
the next thing vas to make the United
States pay for doing it. A bill was ac-
cordingly made out against the United
States by the Marshals, and duly certified
by the Court, iB whir-h the costs of the
case. to be paid by the U. s.. was some
thing over f,Oenty- Seren MoUsdnd dOIiarsI
That was certainly making ''good thing
OF it," But. alas this same Vim. M
COnnGilV was Reporter of the Cincinnati
Commercial" and he exposed the fraud
ard viIlGny of the charges 50 effectualIy.
that even the Administration at Washing
ton. could not quito swallow the dose.
The bill was. through the exposition Of
Connolly. cut down e'eren MousaHH dol
lars! lie saved S11 900 TO the u. S. and
won the everlasting hate. and sworn ven