The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-04
CONVICTION OF BUSHNELL.

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The conviction of BUSHNELL. at Cleveland,
for the rescue of fugitive slave from the
custody of the United States officers, at 0ber-
lin, will have a very salntary effect -npoR the
furious abolitionists of that classic vicinity
Presuming upon the perverted sentiments of
the majority of the people of their village, and
instignatcdby the harangues political preach
ers and Professors, the ,Oberlinites long
defed the law They have how found that it
is not altogether poweress to yindicate Itself.
1t has an arm long enough and strong enough
to seize upon whoever resists and defes IL, and
to drag him fromthe great abolition strong
hold of the Western Reserve into the United
States Court, there to be tried by ansintelligent
and impartial jury of his countrymen. - I'm the
case of BUSHNELL his guilt was clear and
unquestionable. The jury,.i in convicting him,
did no more than their duty, but they. did no
less; and they have thereby deserved the thanks
of every man&who loves his country; supports
the firm and impartial administration of justice,
and wants to see this Union preserved. If We
demand of the people of the South the rcpress-
ion of illegal pursuits in the clandestine lmpor-
| tation of African negroes, we must be prepared
to show that resistance to'the statutes of the
! United States will have noimmunitya here and
ought to have none there. The verdict rend-
cred upon the law and the evidence is, as a
matter of course, furiousiy assailed by the
Republican organs, including eur Ieighbor OF
the Journal i Reckless assertion and frantic
! falsehood, however, are not likely to impair
| the value of that righteous, decision. Nor is
the Court likely to be extinguished by the
truculent abuse of rabid abolition newspapers.
! IF Judge WILSON erred at all in the triabof this
case, it was on the side of extra lenieneyto tho
parties under Indictment. "a 1t is well, perhaps,
that it was so, for perceiving the utter want Of
any foundation for the charges brought against
him by the abolition sheets, the people win spec
Oily appreciate the wicked oppositionof the
latter to fair and impartial administration of
| Justice The signs of, the times are surely
| promising In Massachusetts, and New York
| the Republicans have been forced by the De-
mocraey, and some moderate men of the former,
to abandon the outrageous and unconstitutional
measures they had concocted and introduced,
called 'personal liberty bills!" The last legis-
latsre- of Ohio, by unanimous Democratic, votes,
swept away all that kind Of disunion legislation
from our statute book, and purged it fiom several
disgracef full measures. We have now to add the
vindication of the United States statutes In the
Western Reserve of Ohio, against the fanatical
| resistance of an abolition mobl The Repubh-
can party has seen the day of its utmost ferTo-
and strength, and its decline will now be rapid.
Its organs may rage against this signal triumph
| of the Constitution and the law over sectional
and lawless violence; but the masses Of the peo
pie of all parties will coincide In the opinion,
| that the officers of the law must no longer be
resisted with impunityl in the execution OF
| their duties Ohio lStatessaae. nsiis 6Rs