Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-04
Wore Kidnapping in Ohio.

The Cleveland Leader thus speaks Z
of the case of Rice, who was decoyed
from his home and family at Mt. Gle
ad, on Thursday of last week, ON pre-
tence of being employed in a restau-
ant at Columbus; and on arriving
there was captured and hurried into
slavery without the semblance of a
fair examination, the stroug probabili-
ty being that he is a free man
The Slave Democrats in the last LIE.
g~islature, in obedience to their South.
eIn masters, repealed the wholesome
laws On the Ohio statute. books to pre-
vent kidnapping, and opened our once
free State to the hunts of men thieves.
Aided by United States Marshals and
Uuited States Commissioners, success
full hunts for human victims have re-
Gently come off at Cincinnati, Zanes.
vile, Chillico!he, and Columbus. In
each of the cases men have been car.
tured by stratagem, their limbs man.
acled, their legal rights denied them,
and they have been hurried into slave.
ry as though Ohio lay1upouthe Afri-
can coast, subject to the unresisted in
cursions o slave dealing pirates. Even
railroads and railroad EMPLOYEES are
prostituted to these man hunts, the cf4
vii officers Of our State being thwart-
ed in the service ofwrits ofhabeas r
pas by them. The Legislature soon to
convene will have work to do to pre-
serve the rights and liberties of our
citizens, and we trust there will be no
shrinking from the prompt enactment
of all necessary laws to that end, let
the Slave Democracy howl as it may.
Never did horse thieves hurry with
spt lis to their rendezvous of safety
with greater speed than the kidnap-
pers of Rice. The railroads aided
them in their precipitate flight, andU.
S. Senator Pugh assisted in@fushing
the victim into Iife7slayery. $50 quick
was the business despatched, before
Commissioner NewhalD and the VIC
tim hurried across the river" says the
Cincinnati Gazette, that a writ of
habeas corpus, promptly granted by
Judge Gholson, on application previ-
to the arrival of the kidnappers,
(of whose coming news was received
by telegraph was too late. Before
the officer. had arrived at the Court
room with this document, the kidnap-
pers Qor such they must certainly be
regarded in this case had accomplish
ed their purpose" Honest men, n
gagged in a legal business, have no y
cause for such hot haste. 4ua 10 s5f sd
Rice was lodged in the Covington
Jail over night, and shipped down the
river the next day. IT, He is described
as a mullatto, aged about 38, six feet
high, weighs about 100 pounds, a man
of remarkable muscular power, and
quite intelligent. According to the
statement of Deputy u. S. Marshal
Manson he fought his as~sailants at Coz.
lumbus desperately. Manson, Lowe
and their assistants followed and
fought the unfortunately unarmed man
they were attempting to enslave the
whole lengtho of the depot building in "a
side, passing out of the west end a.
mOng the horses and carriages, and a.
gain into the building, where he was
knocked down and h~andcuffed. 1t re- p
quirrd a slung shot or some such wea-
pom to enable the men-stealcrs to over
como their mulatto victim. He shout
ed to the crowd assembled frequently
that he was a free man, and being kid
mapped, yet, with few exceptions, the
~cravcns, like those Of Harper's Ferry,
in the expressive description of Gov.
Wise, acted like sheep"
One thing is certain. If the South
Will continue to SOW the wind" under
the Infamous provisions of the Fugi-
tive Slave Act. il will in due time
reap the whirl wind" Every man of
mixed blood" thus dragged to slave d
ry will vet strike more terror to their
domestic fre-sides than the insane fam
attic John Brown. q