The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-07-21

In addition to the above, Mr.. Stanton, on
the eve of his departure for Kentucky, ap-
pretending the very charge now mads,-not
openly made, but MISUNDERSTANDING
Judge Beldet with the following note, which,
hear ing OF, we demanded as an act Of Justice
should be published
CLEVELAND, OHIO,
Wednesday Evening, July 6, 1885
MY DEAR SIR 1T is possible that, after
my departure from your city, the facts con.
nected with the settlement Of the recent
prosecutions against Jennings and others
may be misrepresented to your prejudice
and to guard against such result, beg tc
say to you, that you took no part, and haC
no agency whatever in the matter. The ar
rangement was initiated and consummatet
by the Hon. D. X. Cartier and myself, with
out consultation with you or any other per
son, except the immediate parties interested
! until after the terms had been fully settled
between US. Your determination was from
the beginning, to defend the indictments il
Lorain, and to prosecute those pending in
the U. S. Court at this place. You were
! prepared with your authorities, and ready tc
60 to Lorain, when you were first informed
of the settlement, and even then you insisted
that the proceedings ought to 60 on, and thai
there should be no compromise. 1t wal
only after l had urged with some earnest
ness the arguments which thought justified
the agreement, that you informed me thai
you could not stand in the way OF an adjust
ment, if those more Immediately interested
asked that it should be carried out by the
Court.
ANY version Of the matter which makes
you responsible in any respect for said set
Element, if the same should be deemed un'
wise and imprudent, will do you very great
injustice. You strongly urged from the be-
ginning to the very moment when Judge
Wilson consented that the nolIe proSequl
should be entered, that the better policy
would be to prosecute the indictments with
vigor and to the end.
With much respect,
Your friend, truly,
r. H. STANTON.
Hon. G.. w. BELDEN, u. s. Attorney, &c
In all the statements it will be seen that
care was taken to preserve the rights of Mr.
Bacon, the owner OF the slave, and Of the
OtnerS IOT IdISe lWpFl5OHuleHt' 1Hlo was
done, that these Oberin gentlemen may
have the satisfa ction of owning the fugitive
for whom they were willing to array them
selves in hostility to the Government that
has protected them, for in the civil suit, soon
to be instituted by Mr.. Bacon for his value
there can be no doubt but that a judgment
for the full amount will be rendered and the
judgment collected, and these Rescuers will
then each own his proportion of a negro
running at large in Clnuda. How. in such
an event, they will be able to divide the
"chattel," when they catch him, is matter
that they themselves must settle.
We say to our friends abroad that the law
is triumphant in Ohio, and that they who re-.
sst it will be punished. The runaway slaves
at Oberlin had better make tracks Tor Can
ada, for if they are pursued, they will be re-
turned. After this, there will be no open
resistance of law, even in that hot bed OF fa'
naticism, for those who have tried the eX-
pertinent have been made heartily sick OF it,
and like burnt child, they dread the fire.
National Democrat.