Litchfield enquirer., 1859-07-21
Correspondence of the Litchfcld Enquirer. THE RESCUERS RELEAsED-UNCLE SAM
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THE RESCU ERS RELEASED-UNCLE SAM x, BACKS DOWN.
 ta OBEnLIx, O., July ', 1859. DEAD ENQUIRER: Another act in the great pro- slavery drama of '' subduing the North" has been played out. The U. S. District Court of Northern Ohio which has of late attracted attention being the starr company the boalds has retired be- hind the curtains. It is gratifying to know that the grand climax of the play, in which Toombs shall read the roll-call of his slaves Bunker Hill is brought no nearer by the completion of another act in the programme. The telcgraphic wires have al ready thrilled throughout the land with the intell
 gence that the Federal power has yielded in its at tempt to crush out the spirit of opposition to the u gitive slave law in Northern Ohio. When, last April it undertook this labor, by arraigning thirty seven citizens of Loran Co at the bar of the U. S. Court for rescuing fugitive from his captors it had not carefully counted the cost, and yesterday it closed the effort in most signal failure.
 The indictments against the Rescuers remaining in jail were nollied and they dismissed with on | their part, no promises, no concessions, no com pron ses. For eightyfour days they have been held in confinement in the Cuyahoga jail, firmly fefus- ing to acknowledge the fugitive enactment as law binding in any respect, and boldly asserting their determination to trample it under foot whenever op portun,iy should be given them. Such men, with easily be ''suhlued." Notwithstanding the loud boasts at the outset, that every one should feel the utmost rigor of the law,'' that higher law ism'' in general, and 'Obernsm'' in particular, should be crushed out.' notwithstanding that the "powers that be- in Washington repeatedly sent orders that the ' laws'' must be executed, and at ! one time had the war-steamer Michigan at Cleve- land to COW the friends of freedom. The prosecu- tion, backed by the Federal authorities, have most | emphatically-to use a significant telm-' caved in.'' The opportunity which the Court avaled it. self of to release the Rescuers was this the engaged in taking the fugitive John' last Sep tember had been indicted for kidnapping, and their trial put down for the 9th of July. It was gen. orally considered that they safely ticketed for the Ohio penitentiary. The Federal authorities at Cleveland desiring to save their Democratic slave. catcling brethren from such fate, and anxious to besrid of the Obern Rescuers volunteered the pro- pesa that the Loran authorities should let the four slave-catchers go, while they would quash the in uIctmcHtS dSiunSt tnt HteeH UT tWcuty hesCueto The latter declining to take any action in the mat ter the Iorain Co., Court agreed to the proposition, and thus the first attempt at enforcing the fugitive slave law the Reserve has ended in the release its voators condition that it's executors should not be sent by the State Court to the penitentiary Truly, pTo-slavery brethren must feel greatly g.atifed at such marked vindicaton of law and order'
 When the hour came for the Rescuers to leave the jail for home, the citizens of Cleveland turned out toaescort them to the depot, and fired hundred guns Tn honor of the triumph over the slave power When the train which bore them reached Oberlin, not far from two thousand people greeted them with hearty cheers as they stepped from the cars, once more, and among their friends at home.
 [ The crowd formed into procession, and with en- th,isiastic excitement marched into the village Oberlin's vast church was immediately filled with assemblage of two three thousand persons, and with music speeches from the Rcscuers and others the company only separated when midnight arrived an uncommonly late hour for the people of Ober- lin. rWe much pleased to welcome our citizens and friends to our midst once more still more grati fled are we that another attempt to enforce the in famous fugitive law has so sgnally failed The spirit of opposition to the slave power ard the de- termination to resist its encroachments was never so strong on the Reserve as it is to-day. God speed the good cause. T.. M.