Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-08


you, and sure.
Let Politicians. Statesmen and Christians,
but follow this example, pud our own Ohio
shall be fee--personal rights will be held as
socred, and be sustained Our counfry shall Be
free VIZ
The Hon. Ralph Plumb was nex, called for, and
spoke as followsi
HALrH PLuan's sPEEcH.
Ne. Plumb came forward amid immense aud
prolonged cheering, aud said
What a sceno here greets the eyel This vast
multtude-the whole population almost Of this
usually quiet village filling every uiche Of this vast
edihce with Joyous oouutenauces and glad hearts,
e"e before us; and for what do they comet
They come to welcome "a their neighbors-their
husbands, fathers aud brothers, back to this com.
mupity-to our dear families end our sweet homesl
THey come, too, to learn not only that we, their
representatives, have been released from the prison
walls that for eighty five days have confined us,
but TO learn also whether this enlargement so
valuable TO us and to them, hes been purchased at
the cost Of one iota Of principle, or one grain OF
self respect
Fellow citizens, it gives me sfeat pleasure to
assure you that the band Of Rescuers whom you
greet stand before you tonight, with your
selves breathing the free air once more of Zee
Oberliu, without having 10 the least degree COM
promised themselves or you
Nay, pelnit me to 20 farther aud say, that the
mept pursuers proposed the entering OF nOiles 10
the cases, have throughout maintained the honor
and the dignity Of Lorain, so that we and they
stand before you without having yielded dishonor
ably 10 any exactiOn Of those who sought TO hum
BILE us, and destroy the principle clearly appre
Bonded by yoUr intellCcts, and warm'v cner-
sbed in your hearts. But do not propose to make
speech to you now; but TO give the key note to
your rcjoicugs by demonstrating what have g.
ready Stated ald for that pmpo. ask your per-
fvraI hWrV tuIln
Sufficient proof, in the editorial Of the Cleveland
Daily Plan Dealer Of this evening, which is IS
follows.
From the PLAN Dealer, July G.
Ober in Cases Nollicd - Higher Law Tr'-
uiupha1t
We lean with aston 'shment that the United
States District Attorney has noll'ed the irl lict-
mcuts against the Oberlin Rcscuers now n
! iail on condition that the Oberip'tcs will rolie
! the indictments agaiust the Kentucky witnesses
who were under auest on a trumped up charge
| Of kidnapping This arrangement we u"de"-
4 stand has been made at the solicitation Of the
| four Kentucky gentlemen, who, while under io.
| cogulzance Of the United States Court to ap
pear here AMI testify in these Rescue cases,
were indicted 10y an OJefiir Lorain jury, and
arrested while in the jischc zoe Of their duties
on a false charge of kidnapping. Tbey were
| thrust into the Loraiu county jail, but were
subsequently released on bail. a special tenn
of the Lora:n County Court was to be held on
! the 9th inst, to ty them, and a Lorain cOdniy
! jury was all in readiness to send them to II
| gatory or the Penitentary, without any regard
to Constitutions, Courts, or the laws of the land
AuefiUlt was made to get them out Of tho
bands of the Oberiuites by a writ of habess
corpus, issued by Judge Mclean, bat the she 81
of Lorain hid himself for several days ard the
| p. obate Judge ran away, to prevent the Ja !
! fiOm surrender,ng the pTso lCTS up, so that the
wit could take effect, and iD this way nrli led
the Law aud set at defiance that "Great Writ
of Right" which these same Obcrliuites have
resorted TO- and have had the iull benefit o.. on
two occasions since these arrests haye been
made.
Finding no law in Loraiu tut the Hiqhef
Law, and seeing the detel minatiOn Of the Npet
| ifi, Judge, and Jury to send them to the Peoi-
| tentiaTy any way, for no crime under any hl-
man law. but on a charge trumped up ON Dr"-
pose to drive them out OF the country, and raw
ing been kept away from their families most of
the summer and away from their business, It
& eat pecunia'y expense 10 themselves, for he
! Government fees for witnesses do rot pay boa-d
bills, they proposed to exchange nollies apd
the District Attorney consented to it. So ,he
Government has been beaten at last with law,
| justice, and facts all on its side, aud Oberl'n
with its Tebellious Higher Law creed is trium-
phant.
The precedent is a bad orc. All these fac.
tionists have to do in the future, whenever Pny
of their number is arrested for the violation OF
our statute law, is 10 pay no regard to the w'Js
of the lower law courts but threaten the " i
nessCs with the terror of their own nquistior
and enforce the penalties Of the higher law
This is Mormouisn with Prof Peck acting the
part Of Brigham Young, and it viii have to be
H. t,,.t
arm ofmilitary power.
There will now be some uuealtEly sIOu 7Ts
by these triumphant myImdODs of MoIhonsm.
Obern will blaze in her new won gloly, and
Ie DeuRlS will he sung in all her churches
There will be a great accession to her calender
of saints Those immortal men, who, AIMED
with muskets, mobbed the United States Off
cials, while in the discharge of their sworn du-
ties, will now be cancnized instead of cannon
AIDED, and Saint Peck will be listed with Saint
Peter, and as worthy to hold the keys of Para
disc
Mr. Plumb said in CONCLUSION:
| Fellow citizens IL is meet that your rejOicings
should be without restraint for the victory h'
been compile Prolonged cheering
Prof II. E. Peck next came forward, and was
received with such hearty greeting, with such
enthusiastic and prolonged cheering, as we never
before Wllntbteu anu never expect 10 near ugAlns
The Professor, after long Whiting for the roaound.
ing waves and the mighty thunderugs to die
away, addressed the audience in tho following el.
oquent speech
-. E. PICKS SPEECH
An event like this is surely a marked coca,
sion in ones life 1t constitutes for him a
stand point from which his mental vision can
take a wide reach, both backward and forward.
Since | came into this house my mind has re.
viewed, in their order, various salient points OF
my life My part in childhood at the bedside
of my dying mother; the conservation of my
self in the beginning of manhood, to the ser
vice Of God; my malr,agei my reception OF
my first boIn; my parting with the dear child
as it died in my arms; the act Of devotion,
when with my wife and children at my side, /
thanked God that John had been rescued; my
arrest; my imprisonment the encounter had
with disappointment when the Supreme Court
refused our application for discharge, aud my
deeper and woiIl gr # when our second plea
at the bar Of the Supreme Court faiol-all
these momentOus events have passed in sol.
emn procession before me And having re-
viewed them, l find myself taking part in this
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