The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-05-26
NullisicntiOll.

After several bills had been ignored by sue
cessive Grand Juries, an indictment for piracy
was at last found against the crew of the brig
Echo. Five o! the prisoners have jus' been
tried ON that Indictment, before the United States
Court sitting at Charleston, S. G.. They were
acquitted. This result we were prepared Tor;
but we none the less regret it. 1t shows that
the laws against the slave trade, So far rs they
depend ON the vrrAIcts Ot southern iurics, are
likely to prove a uuIlity. If negroes can be
landed on our shores, and be publicly sold, aud
the persons engaged in bringing them here Gun
escape with impuniiy, then the slave trade, the
opprobium OF the age, is practically revived,
and will be prose- utJd with the utmost eager
ness. The only clltctual remedy that can be in
tcrposcd is to place additional cruisers on the
southern coas' with strict orders to bring every
SLAYER they may capture into northern port
Tor trial It southern iurics wilt not do their
plain. manifest and sworn duty let us hereafter
rely on the vntue OF northern ulirs. Let us Sce
whether they will be equally reckless Of their
obligations to The laws OF the country.
We can very readily perceive that it would
so harl with southern jury, under the influence
of the appeals made 10 them by counsel, to
bring in verdict Of guilty against parties en-
gagged in the slave trade. In tho recent trial at
Charleston, the jury were toll that they we've
! practically to say by their verdict whether their
fathers, who had mruciI oted in this trade
equally with the prisoners at the bar, wete thieves
and pilates, Besides, they them elves were
Shareholders, % residents in a slavcholliug COM
munity, Whtro the trailic in slaves Is oS lcgiti
mate us any Other trNlIlc and they were called
! upon not to dlsCJedit tdtir own law, AMI mStt-
| lu,ionS by 6ndmS verdict OF gully IN the
! case before them. Tho circumstance that the
slave trade was originally sanctioned by the
! law, bat was now stenly prohibited, lhst the
! internal sieve trade was lawful aud the foreign
/ slave t,adc criminal, seems to have been cnltrt-
| " oVcr,ookel The distraction was not admit
| ted, and the jury apparently thought that, il
! they condemned the prisoners, they equally, ia
forO coasc'mtje, condemned Themselves.
! With this eXcmp.iltalon OF the manner in
! which the L, dcrdl laws are upheld ut the South
we trust that we shall hear less hereafter Of any
| intraction of the fugitive slave law that may
| have occurred at the North. II local prcmlices
| of personal opinions are permitted to nudity MI
| obnoxious law in one section OF the Union, and
! this without popular condemnation, it does not
become the public organs of that section TO ar
ragn other parties of the Unon for treueing an.
another obnoxious law ia the same mlnuer.
10 the patriot, however who sees In every in
| fraction OF law foundation laid FOR the ultl'
mate enthroncment OF anarchy and disorder, whc
knows that, il narrow minds and intense prtju,
! dives are 10 hold sway, the commonwealth must
sink. these exhibitions OF a disregard for the au
lhurity of the Union, whenever they appear
! give rise to the most gloomy reflections. II is
only d cheeerful obedience 10 law that renders Il
republic possible, When anarchy displays its
hydta head, mankind viii Sc ka temedy in The
arms Of deSpotiSm, In sGch emergencies, they
! practically adopt The sentiment OF Noltaire, aud
prefer to be deNoumd whole by great lion, THAI
be guawed to pieces By 1aDs,- Pa, n ANeri
I can,
! DIsTREsslNG AccpENr--An n interesting little
girl, aged between two and three years, daughter
of Mr. Jacob Duly, living near Little SanduSky
was killed under the following distressing cir
cumsNuCes: Her flther was lying on the noor
resting after dinner, and she and the Other
children were playing about hiu, Little Han.
nah the deceased, was sitting upon her ia' hers
breast with "A knife in her hand; he usked her
! to get down, Hnd in attempting to do so shy
/ lyll upon the knife, which penetrated her side to
u considerable depth. The innocent little Sirl
! simply sighed drew the knife from the wound,
and in twenty minutes was acrrpse This nc
Cured last Week. NyaHdOt Pioneer.
! Mr. Wheeler Queen ut Ashley Balls, Mass
over 100 years Oi Oee, has recently married Mrs
hemmerhom, ol Norfolk, Come over 50. a
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