The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-29
The Bell Cnse.

The abduction of Horace Bell continues to
cause intense excitement at New Albany,
and the conduct of the Kcntuckians is in
no wise calculated to allay it. So far as they
have manifested any feeling upon the sub
ject by their public acts, there is a supreme
for the anger and Indignation on the North
side. The New Albany Tribune says the
report of an Indignation meeting being held
in Louisville to condemn the act was
UeIeg s.-v~~.;.e, ,t.as 900
templated. The citizens of Louisville
either approve the outrage or they dare not
Gcnounce it.
The case is likely to be attended with
grave consequences, and the people of Ken
lucky should take such steps at least as will
fully satisfy the feelings of the moderate
and conservative portion of the community
on this side of the Ohio. If they do not
yindicate their character as law abiding peO-
ple,-anxious to fulfill all the constitutional
obligations, and the demands of State COM
ity, they must not look for a very Jealous
support of their rights when they have oe-.
casion to appeal to our citizens for redress
and help.
If some PREPARATION be not made for the
indignation and wrong done to the sovsr-
eighty and people of Indiana in this case,
there will be more men tursed to abolition
ism and underground railroad conductors,
than has been created by the Greeleys, and
the Giddings and their co-laborers. For
their own safety and for the preservation of
| the relations of good neighborhood, the
guilty parties in this transaction must atone
for the outrage, or the whole State of IN
diana will resent it. If nine-tcnths of the
people upon the Kentucky shore, as asserted,
believe the act d lawless outrage, they should
take the necessary legal steps for the release
of Bell. Return him to the State of Indiana
and then demand him in proper form, if he
has been guilty of felony in Kentucky.
A party of citizens from New Albany
went down to Brandenburg on Monday
before they reached there Bell had been
taken by night to ~ Jail in the interior. A
consultation took place between the leaders
of the Indiana party and some of the cit
zens of Brandenburg, as to the object of the
visit of the former. The citizens generally
condemned the violent and unlawful man
ner in which Bell had been arrested, and
promised to deliver him up to the Indian
ians. A committee remained at Branden-
burg to receive Bell, who was to be put into
their hands at o'clock, on Wednesday,
The people of New Albany do not appear to
place much confidence in the fulillment OF
this stipulation. We trust it has been hon.
orably discharged, and that harmony and
good will, may be restored by it.
In reply to the enquiry of the Louis.
/, vile Journal, why old man Bell and his
! son, if they were illegally imprisoned
were not released on habeas corpus OF
: bail, before his sons made it by forcibIe
| entrance into the Brandenburgh Jail, the Tri
buae answers
The intelligent editor Of the Journd
h need not be told that q writ of habeas cor
$ pus does not necessarily discharge pris.
u oncr. The object of that writ is simply tt
it bring the body of the prisoner before
4 proper Judge, with the cause of his deten
ton; and if good cause cannot be shown
Tor OBTAINING him, he is of course discharg
10 ed. But suppose they show an indictmen
Of against the party for rum ing negroes on
OF kentucky, or a complaint under oath t
: that elect, the prisoner will of course b
remanded to prison, Or admitted to bail a