Litchfield enquirer., 1859-02-03
EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT OBER-
 LIN. OHIO

l A WHITE ScHooL-TEAcHER ARRESTED BY
 VRruE OF THE FuGIT1vE SLAVE LAVA correspondent of the Cleveland Herald, wri
 ting from Oberlin, Ohio, under date of Janu
 ary II, gives the following account of sin guar transaction that occurred there
 It appears that there resided in that place, 1 William A. Lincoln, young school-teacher
 whose character for Christian principle aud exalted piety ranks among the hi ghest in Oberlin. In the aggregate he has labored two years with John G. Fee, in Kentucky, preaching anti-slavcry. During all that time l from the shareholders themselves as he did in i these few hours from their tools here in the North-in our own beautiful Ohio. Last win | ter he spent as colporteur and lay-preachel of the American Missionary Association in | Indiana, and the same Association only wait his attaining to rper scholarship to send him as missionary to Africa.
 In the meantime he was engaged to teach l in Dublin, Franklin county, about twelve miles from Columbus, in the very district where re- sided the bailiff who had tried to assist Mar shal Lowe in the carrying away of the "boy John." This bailiff, Sam. Davis by name, soon got wind of LiDcoln's contiguty, and commenced the utterance of threats of per sonal violence It would only cost him five dollars, he said, to give the adjectived aboli- tionist a sound thrashing. On being mildly remonstrated with by Lincoln through the Post Office, he waxed more furious, obtained leave from Lowe to serve the warrant on Lin coin for "rescuing John," and served it to the satisfaction of the slave act.
 Taking stout assistant with him, be rode up to the school-house, knocked, entered, ask ed the teacher his name, and on being answer ed truly, seized his arm, and began immedi- ately to put manaces on tie wrists of free man, guilty of no crime Lincoln remonstra- ted, saying that he intended neither resistance nov fight, but the more he remonstrated, the hardly accord him time enough to put on his boots and not enough to make necessary chan ges in his apparel. Of course the scholars were intensely excited when they saw their beloved teacher fettered for obedience to the Divine precepts he was daily incucating upon them. The little ones cried, the older boys ragged, and the girls assailed the bailiff with merted epithets.
 Thus chained, our friend was carried q couple of miles in the buggy between the two officers, his ears filled with the coarse terms and profane language bitterly uttered against him and us all. Then, at his suggestion, the assistant left, and Davis rode alone with him. The Christian forbearance of our brother mol fled him considerably, but he nevertheless took him to Columbus in that plight, and thrust him, in his chains, into the common cell of the county jail. belonging to the free state of Ohio, among criminals of every kind into place lecking with profanity, sickenng from its stench. and oyer-running with vermn. There, unshackled, he spent the night, locked up with man charged with burglary. In the morning, Marshal Lowe took him to Cleveland, not deeming it necessary to use the irons on the journey. In Cleveland he receiv- ed the same treatment at the hands of Judge Wilson as the others of the "37''' had done. To Lowe's credit be it said, he loaned him enough to come to Oberlin with, where of course he found friends. Lincoln was twenty six hours in the hands of these government of icers five of which were spent in letters, nine in filthy jail amoug the lowest crinl inals
 A mass meeting in regard to the outrage had been held at Oberlin, at the College Chap el, the Mayor of the city presiding.