Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-05

On Saturday the United States Court found
VIM. NJ Connolly guilty, under the Fugitive
Slave law, of harboring slaves, who will of course
be sentenced to imprisonment, as he rs poor, ana
u iine would not tell on him. We shall now have
tho delight, MS citizens of Ohio, OF contemGlnt-
ing the fact that one Of our fellow citizens IS TO
be imprisoned Tor performing a common act oi nos
2itallty.
The facts of the case are stated thus, which
statement is not Tor from true About TINS time
last year two slaves Of q kontuckian, VINO. hteu
oprosite Cincinnati. and who had been in the DAT
~ habit II coming into tee State OF ONO, with
their mastery consent, seem to have concluued
that Hey would 80 tH entirely. Connolly &C.
occupied q lodging room in II largo house ad
Joining the gazette building. by some means these
fugitiyos, a man aud woman, went to Cunnelly's
room and hid themselves. lie says they were d-
rec.ed there by some United States Marslals
who owed him an old grudge, Tor exposing some
rillainy of theirs when he was reporting q slave
case Of the winter before last. Be this us it may,
the slaves were found in the room of Connolly /;
they resisted the Marshals; the man was shot down
in the om-murdered in cold blood-and 6ied in
u few days; the woman was taken back to slavery.
Connolly, who is q poor man, with a family de.
Yending upon his wages Of some $40 or SO u week,
learning that he was to be prosecuted for harbor.
ing those slaves, left Cincinnati and went to New
York, where he got employment. lie is soon
hunted ont again, and the Marshuls are put on hi.
track. lie writes TO Stanley Matthews, the Dis
tlct Attorney, ana pegs him 10 entel Il hOtte. Inc
slaves were reiaken and lac is poor, and has
n dependent family and he asks to be excused
This Matthews, though claiming so be an honora
be man-whp entered u nONe in the Champaign
and Clark county cases because the negro wa
paid for holds poor Connolly TO il. The Mar
shals are sent after him lie is brought back a
enormous expense, and good fat fees to the off
Gals. and put on trial one of the jury, as i
turns out, being United States Marshal himselfl-
aud found guilty,
The trial lasted several days and the case wa
ably managed By Mathews for the prosecution, an
Judge Stallo and Thomas Corwin for the defence
who argued that the fugitives were free by tn
laws of Ohio and Kentucky, because their maste
had frequently permitted Them to come into Ohio
and also that the fugitive slave law only conten
plated the punishment Of barboring in cases wher
they shall finally escape. These slaves were re
taken, and hence they cOntended that COnnell
was not guilty nndor the law. Judge Leayit
however, charged against these positions, adoptin
tho bred Scott decision as to emancipation b
coming into a free State, and holding that the cor
diion Of the fugitives was to be determined b
the laws of Kentucky, which laws the prisone
was held to know, Or at least was held accountabl
under them The practice Of Judge Leavitt
Court settles that if a man is humane and poor b
is to be punished. If he can pay for lost fug
tive he gets off but 10 all cases the Fugitiy
Slave Law is supreme.
This is the first case of conviction for merel
harboring a fugitive it is a grave subject of n
Election, and it will be well for the free citizens
Ohio to ponder upon it. Hereafter the Fugitiv
Slave Law-much as they may detest, condem
or ridicule it's to be punished under it if the
are guilty. Of a humane act towards Il fleeing slav,
The idea is intClerable but we have no remed,
tii we reform this Government, or adopt the de-
MGR resort Of revolution. 1t may como to thu
sooner than we think for.