Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-22

Forefathers, Day. A Fugitive Slave among
the Pilgrims---The Lorain County fris-
Oners.
The commissions of Europe, originated by
Luther, swept on embracing in their range the
tossed exiles from England to the continent
and from the continent and England, in the per-
sons of the Pilgrims, across the ocean where
Liberty, weak as she was, stood upon Plymouth
Rock A continent became her heritage; a
world is listening to her voice. Webster and
Everett when "the landing of the Pilgrims" IS
the theme feel their tongues quite Palsied IN
giving utterance 10 the emotions which struggle
in the soul. Orators and poets among the
throng on pilgrimage to Plymouth Rock vie
with each other and invoke their highest pow
ers to make beftting offering
1t appears from AbbOt's History OF King
Phillip that some years before the landing OF
the Pilgrims a Capt. Hunt, trading on the
coast, had kidnapped five Indians sixth es-
capped and told the story; who were carried to
Spain and sold as slaves. One of the five es-
capped, came to England where he learned the
language, and through the kindness ana efforts
of John Saney, merchant of London, was sent
back to his native country. Three months sub
sequent to the landing" an Indian came into
Plymouth, his name was Squantum, who proved
to be one of the five identical Indians carried
off by Capt. Hunt many years before. He 1oas
fugitive SlaUe from SPAN lie now came as
the messenger of Massasoit, the Indian chieftan
holding sway over thirty tribes and who was
encamped on a hill with sixty warriors short
distance from Plymouth. He had sent Squan-
tum, being a good interpreter, to make the pre-
| liminaries of an interview which resulted in
friendship between the Pilgrims and the Indi,
ans. Squantum seems to have been ever after
firm, steadfast friend of the infant colony,
rendering important services in intercourse with
the Indians as well as in teaching the English
how to cultivate corn and catch fish. During
the first autumn boy was lost in the woods
Massasoit sent word that he was found, and
was with tribe on Cape Cod. Several of the
colony, with Squantum to aid, were sent after
| the boy. At the place where he was obtained
| an old woman came TO see them one hundred
years old,who on coming into their presence, was
| overwhelmed with emotion and cried most con-
vulsively On eGquiring the cause, It was as
certained that her three sons had been kldnaP'
ped and carried of by Capt. Hunt. Not to men
ton other instances related of the valuable ser
vices rendered by Squantum his last seems tc
have been one of charity. Two English vessels
with sixty idle and dissolute men came into the
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noyance to the colony and heavy tax upon
their patiens hospitality. They finally settled
upon Massachusetts, Bay. Starvation iu the
cold winter stared them in the face they sent
to Plymouth for food, but the colony had barely
sufficient to last themselves through the winter
Gov. Bradford set out to collect some corn o
the Indiana by buying and begging and carry
ing it to the famishing ones. Squantum ac
companied him. On the way Squantum wa
taken sick of a fever and died. 'The Gov. anC
his companions with tears followed the remain
OF their faithful interpreter to the grave AM
then continued his benevolent mission. In hi
diving hour Squantum prayed tervently tina
God would take him TO the heaven of the Eng
Iishmen that he might dwell with them forever.
What tribute of priceless value to the memor,
of the Pilgrims
sin. the progress of human events" at tn
lapse of 23S years some dozens of men, nearl.
of an equal. number of the males ofthe pilgrims
| citizens of Lorain county, perhaps descendant
of the pilgrims, are arrested by process ofiaw 10
| having according to the finding OF a grand JuT,
acted The John Slaneyn in favoring the escap
not ofa Squantum, but an African or . the de
scendant of Africans" who was claimed to ow
service in another State By precisely the sam
title and no better is he held, than was Squan
} INN by Can't Hunt There may have been n
> tCuCfuU TugrtTvC
lated, as there is between the Sovereign State
t of the United States The citizens of Lorai
county, brought to the bar of the United State
T District Court, demand instant trial, are defer
T red, and, in compliance with requirement @
. Court, give bonds in the amount Of $50, 600.
1t should be remembered that while Massa
!, chusetts enshrines and guards the ashes of th
: Pilgrims, she also in the dark days of tn
Revolution made voluntary offering upon III
!, altar of freedom, in ceding her claims of wester
lands to Congress in order to help pay tn
7 expenses of the war, and the cession was mad
: on the sole condition, stipulated by her repre-
, sentative in Congress, Rufus King, that SLAYER
:. should never exist in the North West Terr
tory" Congress accepted the cessiOn and 500
: after passed the Ordinance of 1877 prohibitin
: Slavery forever. Resident, fugitive, running o
any other conceivable condition of slavery
dead If the body of the tree is cut down hoy
can the branches live Judicial proceedings
4 State or federal-legislalion, State or federal
Constitutions, State or federal, in conflict, car
not touch it The Ordinance by its priority, il
, everlasting and changeless conditions contro
them all.
Were the annals of Slavery written its page
= wodld outnumber all encyclOpedias-it woul
. exceed the Libraries of the world. Its histor
is the history of the world and can never b
written Its cries and groans had an anteet
dence of all written llistory-its blood enTiche
o the soiI-its sweat and tears are the dews
= the growing vegetation-its muscle gathers th
harvest The proceedings against the citizen
of Lorain county is another chapter of th
n thrilling, never-ending story, always being wri
ten but never concluded.
b Democracy in the Senate of the United State
., traduces Massachusetts, and from the bench
the United States District Court in Clevelan
t sneers at her in accursed ''New England" y
:, her own works praise her. She has mont
= ment in the North West Territory whereon
inscribed her deeds of patriotism, and her love
: freedom as enduring as her own Rock on whic
:. Liberty stepped from the ocean to continent
9 as imperishabe as the granite shaft that Poini
from Bunker Hill. JUNlUS.
Cleveland, Dec %, 1858.
LYNCH Law oNFEssIoNs.-ExtOrted conte
n sors are uncertain evidence. A case in iliu
: tration recently occurred in Indiana. Jo
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