Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-07-14
Later.
THE Government Enters "Nole Conten-
Dire" IN the Oberlin Rescue Gases! =

Tile Governnsent Enters "Nole Conten
Dire" in the Oberlin Rescue Cases.
Triumph Of the Right.
The attempt to enforce the Slave Ac
on the Western Reserve by Government
officials for political effect, has resulted in q
most disastrous defeat of the projectors
and of the whole scheme.
Never were set of men worse used
than have been Jennings, Bacon and Mitch.
ell, the Kentucky slave owner and slave
catchers who tried to seize negro in Ober-
liD, by the Government officials who sought
to make good thing out of it for them
selves and for Democracy. The prosecu-
tons were commenced without the knowl-
edge or consent of those who claimed to
have even running interest in "John,"
and they have been obliged to leave their
homes repeatedly at the call of these off
cials for the purpose of working the con-
viction of the objects of their political ha-
tired and unrelenting persecution.
We deem it unnecessary to refer now to
the charges and rulings of the Jetfreys
Court, the packing of Juries in the trials
to secure verdicts contrary to well known
Law-that has become matter of history
to be read hereafter with with shame-but
we desire to speak of the manly and con-
sistent course pursued by the prisoners in
the face of all these attempts to crush
them and their cause, and the complete
triumph that they have achieved.
After the Supreme Court at Columbus
had remanded bushnell and Langston to
Jail, the boasting of Marshal johnson and
Judge Belden was very loud and insolent
they declaring that now no quarters
should be given to the Oberlin men, that
they should every one of them be tried,
and they should all be convicted and that
they should be taught to obey the laws,
&c, &c.,-which was continued uutil the
return of their Kentucky associates for their
approaching trials in Lorain county.
Those chivalrous gentlemen never liked
the appearance of things at Elyra, and it
was difficult for the Government officials to
coax them into the custody of Sheriff Burr
at the time they surrendered themselves.
They seemed to lack confidence in the pro-
lection which had been promised them, and
when they came up here ten days ago,
there was evidently no better show for
them than before, notwithstanding all the
bravado uttered for them.
Meantime the Prisoners had settled qui-
etly in their quarters, ready to spend a
year if need be, in Jail, rather than to give
bail or do any act which they considered a
recognition Of the validity of the Fugitive
Slave Act. They had gone to work adj
vocating the doctrines in which they be-
lieve by the publication of "'The Rescuer,"
a paper of their own getting up. The pow
er of free Press from prison is potent.
The people too, were being aroused as
they seldom are on any subject, and were
contributing cheerfully for the support of
the Prisoners-in fact, the war had just
begun. Moreover, all attempts at avoid
ing the trials of the kidnappers at Elyria,
before an honest jury of Lorain County
had utterly failed, and Columbus bid more
fair to be the place where Anderson Jen-
nings would spend next winter than did
Ky.