Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-09-27

o. Epgitives from service are not subject TO re-
captnre. Fugitive Slave Acts Of Congress
being subsequent in time are inoperauye-
State laws Of these ordinance States aiding
the re capture of luqitves from service arc
void All judicial decisions, federal or state
favorinp the reclamation ofpersons, lngiuves
from service c)nttavene the supreme law OF
the land
81. The Fugitive Slave clause Of the Consti-
tuition being subsequent to the ordinance has
no application to the ordinance States eX-
cert in certain specified cases
4th. Rcclamalions Of fugitiyes from seryce'
even from any Of the original States, must
have trial by jury.
The fugitive slave clause Of the Constitution
has suhscryient application TO the ordinance
which comes, equally with an antecedent
treaty, the Supreme law by virtue of the Act
of Aug. Z, 1889
On the fourth proposition IL may be remarked
that by the provision in the sixth article of the
Ordinance there must be the trial Of the right
of reclamation for "any person escaping into
| the same from whom labor and service rs tdiC
! 6illy claimed in any one of the original States,
such fugitive may be laigfidly re claimed and
conveyed to the person claiming his or her SER
vice or labor as aforesaid" 10 be lawfully re-
claimed there must be the trial OF right and
that trial must be in the territory OF the States
erected out of the territory. The ordinance is
so fully pervsded by the spirit Of freedom, Of
! humanity and kindness even toward the Ind
ans, laws never to be made conflicting with
their rights, and the trOrds of the ordinance Sc
curing to all persons the right of trial by jury,
/ that the lawful reclamation of fugitwes sir m
/ service from "any of the original states must
be. of necessity, by the right Of trial by jury
Give us back, then, the just and legitimate
/ operation of "thc supreme idlc Of the land -
| The rights of every "inhabitant and settler
| of tlese States have been assailed and tranpled
under foot. Wrong, injustice and usirPation
have lowered heaven high. l call it by no 9TH
| er name than Hsurped nghts-usHrpcd power,
| contravening "the supreme law Of the land"
| Whose bull has gored the OK Farms have
! been sold--pIntiDg presses levied upon to pay
| the fines imposed by illegal and usurped powers.
| Peaceable, unofiending citizens have been ar
raigued and committed TO Jail, tried and con
| yicIed and imprisoned under the sembance Of
law through long period oftime, till the record
far outnumbers the offences in the rehearsal Of
wrongs made by the Declaration Of lndepend-
ence against the King of England, while on
the scale of comparative injustice the De-
claration was but "glittering generalities.'-
6 Can woman forget her sucking child :" en-
auires the Creator. Can che Yes, and slSy
her child on the spot before the eyes Of the
officers of iuetice y rather than press it 10 her
! bosom as she is dragged away herself to hope
| less bondage by the bloOdhOunds commissioned
| by the mandates Of bloody usurpations of right.
| If the question was never before answered at-
| frmativeiy it has been in Ohio, ard blood from
/ her soil cries for vengeance. The avenger OF
| blood is on the track, and though he may
seem tardy, yet sure as the rising sun he viii
overtake So thought, so said Jefferson His
/ 4 L - II "a urssr
| Among the Jews their sacred ark was once
captured and carried eff by he Philistines. 1t
was taken from one city to another, but every
where dismay desoaton and death among its
captofs marked its path, till the people in the
extremity of their sufierings cried out for the
! ark to be restored to its own resting place. So,
let ''the Supreme law of the land'' which you
so much flunt in our faces be restored, there
| by giving US peace and quiet and more than all,
justice.
Has the ordinance in its prohibitory clause
Of slavery worked disastrousy upon the popu-
lation and prosperity of the territory, or would
its prosperity have been greater by the omission
of that clause How reads the record
When the ordinance was made the terr' tory
was far away in the wilderness. On the West
of it no traveller had told of the depth of the
solitude in that direction. On the East it was
separated from the frontier settlements by the
distance of = or 800 miles through woods tra~
versed by Indians and pack horses. The nat
ural water courses had their outlets, one by the
st. Lawrerce 1900 miles to the ocean, oJstruc-
teddy portages and 10 possession of the British,
the other by the Mississippi whose banks were
lined for 1000 miles by an unbroken forests TO
the Gull of Mexico The moulh of the
river w6s in possession of the Spaniards
who imposed heavy duties and often confiscated
the little produce that floate1 down. Washing
ton was willing to concede for the present the
free navigation the Mississippi, being enlisted
in his project of canal and slackwater naviga-
ton from the Potomac across the Aleghanies
to the mouth of the Cuyahoga, that he might
commercially and politically attach the people
of the west to the east The people west of the
mountains from Kentucky south broached the
subject of alliance with Spain SO as to have an
outlet for their produce. England had a hope
of yet possessing the western country, as her
holding of our frontier military posts and the
offer from that Of Detroit through emissary
to Kentucky for furnishing troops and means
Ia fight the Spaniards indicated The first com.
pany of settlers to the territory left New Eng
land with Gen. Putnam at their head, encodn-
tered the winter storms in crossing the ALE.
ghanies and halted at the YoughiOgheny, built
boat of so tons, named the "BlayfoweT," and
descended the rivers. A second detachment
average progress of or 9 miles a day. On the
opening of the first court held in the territory,
the proclamation of The Sheriff is to be noted as
breathing the spirit of the Ordinance" 80,
yes, that a court is open for the administration
Of evenhanded justice, to the poor and the rich,
to the guilty and the innocent without respect
to persons none to be punished without a trial
by their peers, and then in pursuance of the
laws and evidence in the case" Marietta some
months since celebrated til 10th anniversary OF
her settlement, when the last portion of the ter
ritory was erected by Minnesota into State
: A lneal line from Marietta to the Lake of the
Woods measures 800 miles. The national boun
Diary line was not established till 1922 The
line between the Northwest Territory and Lou
isiana, from the Lake of the Woods to the Mis-
sisspp, was never run, ard the head Of the
Mississippi not discovered till 1882 The terri
: tory contained 49,, 769, 900 acres of laud. Tn,
. population now resident are 100000 The
: people bought their lands of Congress, ant
from the produce raised have paid for them the
sum of Sl00000,000 into the federal treasury
' They cut their roads TO get to the territory
have built million dwellings, every one to In,
: humblest cabin the happy home of ireemen.-
u They have cleared the iorests-built 300, OOC
: miles of town roads, numerous public building
. 1000 miles Of oanals-9000 miles of Railroad
at a cost Of S200,000000. Though there wa
no egress from Lake Erie for water craft ill
G within the last 30 years their haryests hay,
n gone forth over all oceans, feeding alike fam
G ishing Ireland and the armies of the Crimea
Their hocks and herds 90 daily to supply TIN
@ shambes Of eastern markets humorous agri
e cultural fairs, State, county, and town are held
i They have 5000 steam and sail vessels to carr,
P on its mighty commerce, greater number Thar
y is on the Atlantic and Gulf cOast-they hav,
d built and loaded vessels from lake ports thai