Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-06-02
The Desp0tism of Our Federal
~ "a Judiciary. .-s4sl E.s :


made by a man who is slow to speak, and
who therefore is ranked among the race Of
aold bunkers" and afogies,n that, from the
well conservative character of the speaker,
is worthy of repetition. He said ?. ri
have reflected upon the result of the trials
for slave piracy lately had in South Caro-
lima, in the Echo case; upon the trial Of
Sickles for murder in Washington; upon
the trial of Tyler in Detroit; upon the res
cues trials in Cleveland, and have come to
the firm belief that there is no despotism,
even in Europe, so unrelenting, so shame
ful, as the despotism of the Federal Courts
of these United States" @sj 5s'-sa
There is truth in that remark, and every
day is finding its way to the eonsciences Of
the American peoble, and unless State soy
ereignty proclaims its rights, fruits more
bitter still will result from the arrogance
and political desperation, of our Federal
Judicial officers. . '''
In this connection it is worthy of note
that the Federal Judge who turned the
Sickles trial into a political and disgusting
farce, is the same Judge who lately visited
upon man in Washingtona fine Of $780,
sc, with imprisonment until paid, for the
suspected crime of harboring bis own SOB
Ian account of which infamy our readers
have heretofore had. - -. : -.
Another chapter in the history of Judi
cial arrogance has been developed in the
United States Court at Charleston, S.. c.,
which Court was held by Circuit Judge
WAYNE and District Judge Magrath. The
yacht Wanderer landed cargo of slaves
a few weeks since in Georgia. The Grand
Jury in that District, sitting at Savannah,
found a bill of Indictment against Capt.
'Corrie for this piracy. Capt. Corrie fled
to Charleston in South Carolina and there
proceedings were commehced,-for the pur-
pose really of shielding him-and Judge
Magrath refused to deliver him up to the
Georgia officers while such proceedings
were pending. The Grand Jury in the
South Carolina District has lately been in
session, and threw out the bill against Cor
rie. This left Corrie liable to be tried un-
der the, Georgia indictment, Then the
South Carolina Jury, seeing the. position,
asked to have tie ignored bill returned to
them. Judge Wayne declined, but Judge
Magrath was in favor of that course. The
Court being divided the request of the Ju-
ry could not be granted. Then the Jury
made, what they called a presentment,->
a sort of indictment,- saying, that Corrie
had been guilty of violating the law of Con-
gress against the slave trade and asking
the Court to instruct the District Attorney
to prosecute him; but Judge Wayne de-
clined to notice it, and discharged the .Ju7
ry. - - k7s .sss -. ,s e~ssy
Counsel for Capt. Corrie claimed, how
ever, that the indictment was q good one
and insisted upon trial, and, so did the
District Attorney. Then Judge Wayne
to have left. the bench, referring
the whole matter to the District Judge,
who held the indictmend to be good, and
admitted Corrie to bail. This whole pro-
ceeding is to give Corrie. atrial in Charles
ton where be is certain of acquittal and
then offer such acquittal as defence on the
trial in Savannah, where, for some reason
unexplained, there is more danger of his
being convicted. - !, - -, = =.
;. These several instances of Federal Judi
cial wrong may well startle the country,
and the summing up Of the matter is just
this. , -. =. - 4, - - 3
In South Carolina the Federal Court in
terposes to protect the foreign, slave trade;
in the Dictrict of Columbia the Federal
Court shields Locofoco politician from
the charge of murder, aud consigns to the
cell of a Jail man merely suspected of
harboring his own child: in Michigan the
Court burlesques justice by imposing fine
OF one dollar and thirty days Imprisonment
upon one of its own officers proved guilty
OF cold -blooded murder; in Ohio the Fed
eral Court inhicts a fine and costs of over
three thousand dollars and Imprisonment
sixty days, upon a young man wholly de-
pendent upon daily labor for subsistence.
but who has been found guilty by iury
of partizan democrats of the crime of at
tempting to shield man from the fangs
Of kidnappers. - -. =. 80 ~.
How long will the people Of Free States
submit to this despotism = Herald.