Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-09
mo d. 4 Federal Court Apostates !

The u. = Federal Court Apostntesl
The Hon JossPH CABLE, Editor of the Van
Vert American, was formerly Democratic
Member Of Congress from Ohio. Mr. CABLE
like a Tree, honest man, declined to keep pro
slavery step with bis party at the command and
ksh of Southern masters and spurned the bribes
ufTered to secure degrading subserviency. His
eotes in Congress against the Fugitive Slave
Act, the Texan Boundary and Ten Millions
Bill, the Territorial Law to Utah, etc, were
warmly approved at the time by many of the
leading Democrats of Ohio--so,ne of the same
Democratic politicians and pacemen who af-
forwards joined in hunting him down for those
very votes, and who have become eager "Gov-
eminent Pursuers" Of the Jeffrey scent and
Odor, under the very Fugitive Act they de.
nounced "as unconstitutional and insulting to
Free States, and "ought never to be enforced +"
Mr.. CABLE has not forgotten the past; and in
the last American he gives the names Of the
packed jurors who went through the farce Of
trying Bushnell, a jury which he pronounccs
"made up by set of apostates, with the e1.
ceplion Of two of whom we know nothing
and he then presents the fo'lowing loathsome
picture Of rewarded bpostacy in higher places.
Read, ponder, and inwardy digest. Says Mr..
q. -
Here the question arises-ioho are fhe men
lch0 compose that court, and lChdt tCas the price
of their apOstacyi
1t has been cur good or bad fortune-as the
case may De-tO have an acquaintance with
most OF the prominent members of that court
Judge WILSON, the presiding deity of that
court, we became acquainted with some ten or
twelve years ago; and meeting with him aboard
Of steamboat on he Ohio river, we received
fatiering encomum fiOm him for having voted,
while in Congress, against this Fugitive Slave
act, and in which vote he concurred. In the
course of his remarks, he denounced that law
as clearly unconstitutional and that it never
could be enforced We reminded him that we
were glad his name was Unidentified with the
proceedings Of an INDIGNATION meeting atCleve-
land, composed of all parties a short time pre-
viously. lie expressed his unalterlble deter.
minatiOn TO oppose the enforcement of that un
constitutional act.
Since then the northern district of Ohio was
created, and the then Mr.. Wilson, has somehow
become the Judge of that new district What
influence the appointment has had on his mind,
or whether apostscy was the condition upon
which his appointment was confirmed by fOgy
Senate, we leave others to determine
Our intimacy with Judge BELDEN, now dis
trlct attorney, was still more closely We have
known him since he stood at the case as a print
er. We have labored for his political promo
iion:-TO make him common pleas Judge, which
he filed with ability and honor to himself We
have been his friend personal and political in
several other contests and for which, up to his
lfa.t ma. hos, o..
Gen. Taylor AMI Mr. Van BuTen were before
the people for President, Judge Belden voted
for Mr. Van Buren.
He, too, after we had voted against the Texan
Boundary and Ten Millions bHl-against the
Fugitive Slave act-against Territorial law to
Utah, ect., Judge BELDEN, in the overAowng of
then an honest heart, wrote us long eulOgiShc
leHer, admiratory of our course in Congress
generally, and especially in reference to the Fu-
giuve Slave act, dCnouncing it unconsttu.
tonal and insulting to the Free States-it ought
never to be enforced, said he.
Marshal JOHNSON is of like character on the
act he now degrades himself to enforce The
only charitable and friendly conclusion we ure
able to arrive att s, that these men, with deputy
marshal @. N. ALLEN, who also wrote US a
kindly letter approving our course on the same
subIect-have hrolon conscience 10 the dogs for
Office.
We might go further into the list of the Off
GERS OF that court and they all show a like pas
siveness for emOlunent
Hon. f. G GREEN, the Clerk, (if he yet be
Clerk,) is the only consistent man of the Int.
He is a Marylander by birth and feeling. He
was in Congress after the passage of the Fugi.
tive act, was there in "a, and voted for the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise and the ex-
tension OF slavery. He is much of gentle
man and entitled to more respect than apOstates.
He is consistent in error-they forsake a right
to do wrong. How widely do Judge Wilson,
Judge Beden, Marshal johnson and their apog-
tate clan now differ with us--once of one sen
timent on the tyranny of Slavedom We, too
have had alluring and sweet scented bait thrown
to us as we'll as they, perhaps We stand where
we then had deliberately taken our position, and
have suffered therefor
They have changed and been benefited, if
not blest thereby. They have their REGARD and
we are 1T peace Wuh oarSeiE