Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-05-14
From ne cgs0siand Leader.
The .. 9. FEDERAL Court ApostatesI

The Hon. JOSEPH CABLE, Editor Of the Van
Vert American. was formerly a Democratic
Member Of Congress from Ohio. Mr. GABLE
like Free honest man, declined to keep pro-
slavery step with bis party ut the command and
lash Of Southern masters, audspurned the brbes
offered to secure degrading subserviency. His
votes 10 Congress against the Fugitive Slave
Act, the Texan Boundary aud Ten Millions bill,
the Territorial Law to Utah, ETC., were warmly
approved at the time by many Of the leading
Democrats Of Obio--some of the same Demo-
cratic politicians aud place men who afterwards
Joined in hunting him down for those very votes
and who have become eager Government Pur-
suers7 of the jeffrey scent and odor, under the
very Fugitive Act they announced "as uncon-
stitutonal and insulting to Free States" and
sought never to be enforced"
NJ 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, jury which he pronounces
"made up by set of apOstates, with the excep-
ton Of two of whom we know nothing"--and
he then presents the following loathsome apos-
tacy in higher places Read, ponder, and in
wardly digest. Says Mr.. @. -
Here the question arises-iphO are the
men that compose that court, and tohdt 1oaS
the price Of their apostdcy ?
1t has been our good or bad fortune
as the case may be-to have an acquaint-
ance with most of the prominent members
of that court Judge WILSON the presid-
ing deity of that court, we became acquaint-
ed with some ten or twelve years ago and
meeting with him aboard of steamboat
on the Ohio river, we received fiattering
encomium from him for having voted while
in Congress, against this Fugitive Slave act
and in which vote he coucurred. 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 iden-
tified with the proceedings Of an INDIGNA-
rIoN meeting at Cleveland, composed Of
all parties a short time previously. He ex-
pressed his unalterable determination to op-
pose the enforcement of that unconstitu-
tional 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 apostacy
was the condition upon which his appoint
ment was Geu6rmed by fogy Senate, we
leave others to determine.
Our intimecy with Judge BELDEN, now
district alto Eney, was still more clnsely.-
We have known him since he stood at the
case as a printer. We have labored for
his political promotion To make him
common please Judge, which he filled with
ability and honor to himself. We have
been bis friend personal and political in sew
Q al other contests and for which, up to
his apostacy we have no regrets When
G en-. Cass, Gen. Taylor and Mr.. Van Blu.
rem 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 bill
against the Fugitive Slave act-againSt
Territorial law to Utah, ect., Judge BELDEN,
in the overhowing of then an honest heart,
wrote US long cWlogist;c letter, admiratory
of our course in Congress generally, and
especially in reference to the Fugitive Slave
act, denouncing it as unconstitutional 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 degr8des himself to enforce
The only charitable and friendly conclusion
we are able to arrive at is, that these men,
with deputy marshal G. N. ALLEN, who al
so wrote us kindly letter approving our
course on the same subject-have MrO1n
conscience to the dogs for office.
We might go further into the list of off
GERS of that court, and they all show like
passivenesS for emoIument
Hon. F. G GREEN, the Clerk (if he vet
be Clerk, is the only consistent man of the
lot. He is Marylander by birth and feel
ing. He was in Congress after the passage
Of the Fugitive Slave act, was there in '54
and voted for the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise and the extension of Slavery
He is much of a gentleman and entitled to
more respect than apostates. He is con
sstent in error-they forsake right to dc
wrong. How widely do Judge Wilson
Judge Belden Marshal johnson and their
apoState clan now differ with us-once o.
one sentiment on the tyranny of Slavedom
We, too, have had alluring and sweev
rcented bait thrown to US as well 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 blessed thereby. They have thei
reWard aud we are at pence aOith OGrscLf.