Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-11-04

Where he was taken to the New Albany
papers did not learn, but the Louisville
journal ofyesterday says that he was car
RED to Elizabeth town and put in Jail there,
which the Journal thinks too far in the
interior to afford much chance Of recapture.
Inc excitement in New Albany, though
taking no definite direction for the release
OF bell so lar as we are informed, appears
to be IN no degree diminished. and if IS not
unlikely that if one of the scoundrcIIv
police who made the arrest should no capobt
on the Indiana side, he would find his ,Tov
home troublesome. What it will end IN
cannot be easily foretold, but what it sbould
end in is easily seen and told too. The
five Louisville officers should at once be
required by Governor Willard of the Gov
ernor of Kentucky, and the penalty of the
law exacted fully. And Bell should be
required also, and after his release and re-
turn home, if legal steps are taken to
hold him accountable for the rescue of his
father, he should be given up peacefully and
promptly. At the same time the scoun-
drcls who began the series of outrages in
the first arrest of old man Bell should be
required by our Governor the very moment
Horace Bell is required to be given up by
us. But the first thing is to get hold of
the Louisville officers who committed the
outrage at New Albany on Saturday.
Gov. Willard, who was at New Albany,
said he would make requisition at once
If proper steps are taken.
The Louisville Democrat says Of the af
fair
eff Bell had been guilty of crime
and we believe he was-thero was prop
er way to arrest him. His crime, aiding
an escape from Jail, as defined in the Stat
utes of Kentucky, is fclony-Articlc
ANI., Section 5--and the laws of the Uni
ted States have provided means of arrest
ing such criminals. Article ", Section
%, OF the Constitution reads:
"a person charged with treason, felony,
or othcr.crime, who shall flee from Justice,
and be found in another State, shall. on
demand OF the executive authority OF the
State from which he fed be delivered up,
to be removed to the State having jurisdic-
ton of the crimc''
"Was there any such demand from the
executive authority of Kentucky? Ger
talnly not. Had these men even a war
rant from magistrate. as required by the
act of Congress of February, 1893, with
the authorization of the executive? Did
they have any authority, or any shadow
of authority, to seize upon the man more
than any other man in Indiana? We can
sec none. We have heard none. Ii was
a gross violation of law, and one Of which,
has been strongly condemned throughout
our city. In order to place sre principle
in light in which the feelings, the natural
feelings, to great extent, Of the citizens of
New Albanylook upon it, we will suppose
case: That master having arrested his fu-
! gitivc slave in Indiana should, while con
veying him home, be himself arrested anil
thrown into Jail, upon the charge of having
kidnapped the slave: that having escaped
and reached Kentucky he should have been
set upon by a half dozen ruffians without re
QUESTION or warrant from Indiana, bound
hand ami foot, and dragged from the pres
encc of his sisters and thrown into an In
diana Jail?
"Wc can imagine burst of indligua-
ton throughout our city, AMI if it was as
serted, IN justification of the act, that the
person whom he hal claimed as his slave
was not his slave, the justification would
be repcllcl as begging the question 1t is
not an injury to Bell that is complained
of. lie may have deserved it. 1t is the
Insult to the laws of Indiana which is
loudly condemned by our citizens. 1t is
the insult to the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States, and the stain which these men
have put npon our city. We can assure
the people of Indiana that it is as much
condemned here as there, and we ask Of
them not to seek redress in turn by viola
ting orr laws or the Constitution. but to
use the means they have to punish these
men. Kentucky will condemn the act as
much as they cam and the lawful means
of redress arc left open to them. We
cannot see any possible means by which
these men can escape, and any effort to
effect redress in any other way will be fu-
tile, and will create more iIl-fccling than
it can ever benefit any onc.''