The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-10-07
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to go South for his stories on any subject relating
to negros and slavery. Last week he copied the
following article from the Southern Monitor, re-
specting an attempt TO capture fugitive slave at
Oberlin:
OBERLIN, 0HIo, LAW AND ORDER. The
New York Tribune copies. with much approving
gusto, an account of rufliauy assault on the L.
S. Marshal at Oberlin, by fugitive slave. The
slave sought the Marshal aud demanded to know
whether he intended to arrest him. The Marshal
made no answer, and the negro, encouraged by
the Colored Republicans" struck down the Uni
ted States officer with cudgel--not of gutta
percha, but of hickory, two inches in diameter
and then the bystanders threatened to serve the
President in the same way. 1t was not only the
Marshal, but the Constitution that received the
blow. VIII the people vndcate it?
Although we could sanction the knocking down
and trampng under foot of any northern, white
livered doughface who is mean enough to be the
bloodhound of Southern artstocrats, it seems
that no such sanction is necessary in this case, as
it turns out to be another Leipsic story. Hero is
what the Obern EUangtliSt says about tho af,
fair which has so excited the Big Bone Lick organ
about the safety of the constitution and the coun.
try-especially that portion of it which makes To-
coioco Presidents:
The SLAVE HuNr.-Our community has been
excited at various times during a few weeks past
by attempts to recapture fugitves in this place.
These efforts have been made, as we understand
by men from Kentucky, aided at one time by a
deputy u. S. Marshal who resides here, and at an
other by deputy u s. Marshal from Columbus.
1t is not necessurs to say that these efforts have
stirred up intcnse feeling on the part of our citi.
zens, and that none may be found SO lost to hui
manity as TO Indicate openly any sympathy with
the man-hunters. The only fugitive law for which
the people of Oberlin have any respect, is that
recorded in the Book of Moses: Thou shalt not
deliver unto his master the servant which is es
capped from his master unto thee; he shall dwell
with thee even among you, in that place which
he shall choose, in one of thy gates where it ikel
him best; thou shalt not oppreSs him."-Deut
XIII: l5 16.
In these undertakings there was no approach
to success, until stratagem aud treachery were re
sorted TO. On Monday, Sept. l3 Il young mai
residing two or three miles from town was hired
to decoy colcred man from the village, upon the
pretense of employing him in labor AS they
were riding on the way to work, as the coored
man supposed, about two miles from the village
he was seized by three men, one an official from
Columbus, the others Keutuckaus- and hustled
worth's Hotel in Wellington. "A resident UD9F
lin met them Oh the way, and reported in town
his suspicious that an arrest had been made. Com
panes of men, students and citizens. armed and
unarmed at once followed in pursuit, and were
joined on the way by others. At Wellington
they found the hotel already surrounded by crowds
OF people, while the man hunters with their victim
had taken refuge in the garret aud had barrcadei
the passages. The gathering increased hourly and
the excitement grew more intense, until at last the
doors themselves gave way before the moral force
that was brought to bear upon them aud the
poor fugitive walked forth to the crowd who bore
him off in triumph. Not shot was fired; nor Il
blow struck nor bolt broken. 1t was not pos
sibe to resist the demand for release in the pane
OF the Higher FhgitiOe Lao, backed by such an
executive force.
1t is not our purpose to apologize for what some
may consider disorder and interference with the
execution of the laws Of the land. We admit
most freely that there are evils c0nnec ed with all
such popular uprsings iu support Of justice, in op,
postion 10 the forms of law. but there are also
because on the side Of the oppressor therr is
po,eer." Let the casuis decide which is the great
er evil-or if he fail, we refer the question to him
who has felt the iron enter his own soul
The movement was doubtless very imprudent
in many points Of view, but there are higher vir-
tues than hat low prudence which men are wont
to honor.
"lr thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn
unto death, aad those that are ready to be slain;
if thou sayest, Behold, we knew il not; doth not
he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he
that kcepeth thy soul, doth he not know it? and
shall he not render to every man according to his
rks"-Proverbs XIV: II, 10.