New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-22
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR At OBERLIN.
A wHIIE sCHooL-TEACnER ARREsrE BY

A WHITE SCHOOI~TEACHER ARRESTED BY
VIRTUE OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
A onespordert Of The Cierelaad Herald, writing
from Oberln, Ohio, uuder date Of Jan. II, gives the
following account Ct a singular transaction thst oo-
CURED there:
It appears that there resided in that place william
A. Lincoln, young school-teacher, whose character
for Christian principle and exalted pety ranks among
the highest IN Oberu. In the aggres ate he has Ia
bored two wears with John q. Fee in kentuck y,
preaching Ant-Slavery. During all that ums he has
rot experiences tithe Of the abuse from the slave
hode themselves he did in these few hours from
their tools here in the North-in our own beautiful
Ohio. Last Wiutsr he spent az a coporteur aud lay
preacher of the American Missionary Association In
Indiana, and the same Association only wait bis at
tainirg to ripper scholarship TO send him a. mis-
sionary to Africa
In tie meantime he engaged to teach in Dublin,
Franklin County, about twelve miles IRON Z dumbus,
in the very district where resided the balm sho had
tried to asist Marshal Lowe in the carrying away of
the "boy John" This baihf. Sam. DAWN by name,
soon got wind of Lincolns contguity, and commenced
the utterarce of threats of personsl violence. IL
would only cost him 8, he sad to give the adeonved
Aboitors.s sound thrashitg co being mildly re-
u orstratsd with by Lncoln through the Post-Ohice,
be waxed more furious, obtained leave from Lowe TO
serve the warrant on Lincoln Tor rescuiog Jonns
an Il served II to the satisfaction OF the elave act.
Taking a stout assistant with him, he rode up 10
the schoohouse Knocked entered, asked the te ,cher
his pane, and, on being answered truly, seized nn
and began IN mtClh'eiy to put mdohoes On tuo
wrisis of free man guilty Of crime. Lircoln re-
mopsraed saying that he intended neither resistance
nor fight but the more he demonstrated the mora
Daviss profanity ircreased. He would hardly ac-
cord | im tine enough TO put on his boots and NOT
euoug gu 10 mske necessary changes In his apparel w
course the scholars were intensely excited when they
saw their beloved teacher eered for obedience to tho
Divine precepts he daily iocucatisg upea them.
The little ONES cred the older boys ragged, and the
eifls assaled the baliff with merited epithets.
Thus chginej, our friend carried q couple Of
mites in the buggy between the two officers, his ears
filed with the terms ard profane language Bit
tery Uttered against him and us ALL Then, st his sug-
pestiop the assistant left and Davis rode alone vita
him. The Cbrstisn oIbearsnce II our brother IN Ill
fed him. considerably but he nevertheless took him
TO Columbus in that plight, and thrust him, In his
chair into the common cell of the county ISL belong
irp TO the Free State Of Ohio, amoog criminals VI
every kind into plsce reeking with profanity, sick
enipg from its stencil and overruaDDg with vernin.
There uDsback led be spent the night, locked up vita
a man charged with burglary. In the morning, Mar
shal Lowe took him to Cleveland, not deeming II ne
cessary to the mons the journey. In Cleveisad
he received the treatment at the hsnd, Of Judge
Wilson as the others OF the "37" had done. To
Loves credit, be it said, be loaned him enough to
cone 10 0berlin where, Of course he found friends.
Lincoln was t~enty-six hours in the hacds OF thsse
Government oficers, five Of which spent IN fet
ters and in filthy jail. among the lowest criminals.
nass me etiIg il regard TO tho outrage had been
held at Obeilin, at the College Chapel the Mayor OF
the city presiding