Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-05-14

Nv @ipNOluUu 0NfihB tne poae Wctha uhNt au-
vancel with about the same facility which has
mS.Sed them heretofore The trial Of Laug.
ste ,Fhs second on the docket wes terminated
bJ-.e closing argument Of Judge Bliss, assis-
tant attorney for the prosecution about O'cTk
on Tuesday afternoon. The charge Of Judge
Wilson, was 10 keeping, and did no violence to
the character already assumed for unnecessary
rigor in visiting chastisemcnt upontbe prisoners.
In addition to braw-beaiing the jury, he grave
y charged that any attempt on the part of
IiaDgston TO procure writ or service from any
Court Of Ohio, for the purpose of institutng
any inquiry into the right or legality of the do
ing OF Jennings and his Marshal--or for caus-
ing any delay 10 their fight with the man they
had frauduleuily seized--was by the Jury to be
regarded as equally culpable with open mob
violence But the allegations we're but feeby
sustained and tho opinions of intelligent, and
impartial lawyers have been all along expressed
that Langston would be acquitted. 1t was nec-
ossary therefore, 10 dealing with the jury, for the
court to come 10 the rescue, and strengthen
the weak points, as conviction seems to have
been fOregone conclusion, and any scruples on
the part Of a loco focO jury might have carried
disappointment to the bench, and have had
an unhappy influence upon the remaining pris-
oDerA The jury on going into the juryroom
stood 10 to 2, but at tie end Of an hours de-
liberation, they were enabled to ret1rn to court
with verdict Of guilty.
The conviction of Mr. LANGsToN says the
Cleveland Herald. can be characterized in no
way than rank injustice. Having heard the
trial from beginning to end, we were very sau-
guine Of verdict of acquittal. The arguments
Of counsel did not change that belief but when
we listened to the charge of the Judge that
confidence gave way to doubt even when the
jury went out, we could not believe they would
render unanimous verdict of guilty, But we
are mistaken.
We we're astonished at the charge of the
Court, forit will be seen, by every one who reads
that charge, that while all the strong points for
the government were exhibited before the jury,
in clear and bold relief the strong points for the
defence were barely adverted to, (many of them
not even noticedl and those mentioned were ac-
companied with such comments as to show to
the jury, the bias Of the Court The testimony
of Lowe and Jennings was treated of in the
charge as If uncontradicted and not word
was uttered calling attention to the contradic-
tons even from their Own testimony TO say no.
thing Of the testimony BY defence that directly
and flatly impeached those men.
We assure our readers, outside of the city,
that, beside the government officials and Demo-
cratic partiSans Of the pure Dred Scott stripe
there are few who entertain any opinion upon
the verdict, except that it is against the law the
evidence, the rights Of the free citizens of Ohio
and against humanity.
THE SENTENCE OF BUSHNELL.
The scene in Court on Wednesday morsing
was one that will be engraven, ever, on the
memory of those who were spectators Of the
most glaring instance of judicial iDju lice that
Ohio ever saw. The court room was crowded
and many were unable to get near enough to
hear the proceedings. The prisoner Bushnell,
came in and bringing his child of perhaps l6
months Of age and accompanied by his wife
other female relatives and friends We give
the sentence-in the language of its delivery
in the report Of the proceedings
The lecture read by Judge Wilson to the
prisoner was in as bad taste as ia bad temper.
A stranger, not knowing the case on trial, would
have supposed a counterfeiter was standing up
to receive bis sentence to the Penitentary.-
When we look back to the charge given by
Judge Wilson to the Grand Jury-of which
Boynton was chief and which found these in
dietmeBts, when the Court went clear off the
Bench TO dilate upon the theology of Obern,
when we read the charge of this same Judge
to the Petit Jury in the case Of LaDgston, in
which the Court gave the jury lecture upon
its duty as to the enforcement of this Fugitive
LAWS if fearful there might be some Demo-
crat on that jury who might wayer--when we
reflect upon the cruel sentence Of Bushnell. by
which young man. just beginning life, depen-
dent upon bis daily labor to furnish food for a
young wife and infant child, is doomed to sixty
days incarceration in jail-in addition to the
thirty already suifered--sentenced to pay fine
of Six Hundred Dollars and the costs Of the
prosecution--these latter reaching TO perhaps
fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars--we
confess that Judge Wilson has executed this
Infamous Fugitive Slave Law aOith venge0nce
The tbir g.is past belief did not the hearing Of
the ars of FIVE hundred people proclaim its
reality.
We speak plainly, bat personal considerations
must be entirely laid aside rather than such a
Judicial wrong go unrebuked. Justice has
been stabbed 10 its Temple, and State sOve-
reignty sad the rights of the citizens of Ohio
not only invaded. but have been stricken down
on the very steps Of the Altar of what should
be the Mercy Seat
MORNING sEssEoN-FIFTEEGTH DAY.
On the coming in Of the Court, Judge WILL
SON told the prisoner, Mr Busbne, TO stand up
and receive sentence. The Court asked the
prisoner, il be had anything to say why SEN
tsncs should not be pronounced, or any regrets
10 expness for the crime committed by hius---
Mr. Bashasil iuiimased thst he had not and.
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