Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-05-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IL was Done.

Messrs. Loveand, Wadsworth and DeWolf,
the old friends Of Judge Andrews, humili-
aied as they have been by their volunteer Ad-
vocate, deserved better treatment and better
fate They are substantial men Of LOrain, be-
long TO the class Of hardy pioneers who broke
up the wilderness, built the dwellings, school
houses and churches Of the County, aud have
ever sustained irreproachable charact ters as
good men and good citizens. No fugitive from
slavery ever went unfed from their hospitable
homes and their hatred for the Fugitive Slave
Act is Just as deep seated as their hatred
OF the accursed institution which Dred
Scott Courts and pro slavery Administrations
are laboring with true Alguine forocity to force
upon the Free States and Terri tories Of
the Republic They have homesteads, hard
earned and dear to them, have reached the
down-hill side of life, and in acting out the
noblost sympathies of nature aud religion to.
wards fellow man, unwittingly found them
selves in the tender mercies Of Federal Court
despotism The relentless Government Pur-
suers held them and their homes in their grasp.
! ne NllulCblNt Nudik VI bhp AhouNiA NNAA'NJ
in the convictions had left them no hope
| Fines and costs,-the latter oppressiyely enor-
nous in the U. s District Court--would leave
them in their old age homeless and penniless.
These considerations pressed heavily upon
them. They sought legal advice of an "old
friend" in whom they placed implicit conf
dence The result, preconcerted between the
! Court and Counsel no doubt was as humilia-
ting to them, as the speech preceding it was
uncalled for, and astounding to the public. If
the self-abascment Of the Advocate to the Slave
power aud its Government officials was vol
untary, the "od friends" who have not pull
sation in sympathy with either, should have
been spared the pain and disgrace of like,
but on their part, an involuntary degradation.
The way the thing was done is a subject OF
much inquiry by the public. A portion Of the
nodus operandi is stated as follows The Wei
lingtOnites were assured by the U. 5. District
Attorney that he did not consider them in real
ity responsible for the rescue. The Oberlinites
are the ones the Government wishes to punish;
and he would advise them to trust themselves
to the mercy of the Court, and give ther i,du
ence towards maintaining the law of the land.
The Wellington men replied that the Fugitive
Slave Law outraged all the principles of right,
and that they never could obey it, or admit that
they had done wrong in the case of John.
District Attorney Beljen becomes sub
saint" and urges 1t is true that law is an
outrageous la y, and am frank to confess that
even | would not obey it under certain crcum-
stances If fugitive slave should come to me
for money ! would give it to him and tell him
to go on his way Now you were on the
ground, and if you go to trial you will GER
tainly be convicted. We shall convict all the
Oberlinites. Patten and Cowles will be indicted.
The Wellngtonites encouraged by the Dis.
trict Attorneys "sub-saniisHl," conclude that
he is ready to meet them half way, and they
consent to throw themselves on the Court, some
Of them, at least, understanding that they were
not to withdraw heir plea of mot guilty." and
all that their counsel should protest that they
-~I .L~, ,Lar, bod =, ..~ ,.;sa
changed their minds upon that law.
PLATE kissed them, and Andrew Isl erucifed
them. How cruciied, let the following card
proclaim from the house-tops:
MIR. LOvelnnd's Statement.
The card below is inserted ON personal re-
quest made by Mr.. LOveland.-Hcraid
MEssRs. EDIroRs -
After reading your remarks in last evenings
HERALD, in reference to me, deem it due TO
myself to ask you TO state that | did not intend
to authorize my Counsel yesterday to give my
views on government to the Court; and disclam
holding to many of the doctrines expressed by
him. | simply authorized him to enter for me
the plea of Holi contendere, protesting at the
same time that | am not guilty of violating any
law, and requiring the protest to be entered on
the records Of the Court
ABNER LOVELAND.