The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-14
The Oberlin Rescue Case.

The following is the sentence pronounced
upon Bushnell, one of the Oberlin ''rescuers,"
by Judge Hiram v. Wilson. This Judge was
once in bad scrape himself, as viii be seen
by the copy of the requisition which we pub
lish:
Mr.. Bushnell who, with his wife and child.
occupied seats near the bench was told to
stand up. The court asked the prisoner if
he had anything to say why sentence should
not be pronounced, or any regrets to express
for the crime committed by him. Mr.. Bush
nell intimated that he had not, and thereupon
the Court proceeded to read from manuscript
the sentence of Bushnell, as follows:
at is ut all times disagreeable and pain
full duty for the Court to pronounce the SEN
tence and impose the penalty which the law
demands for its violation. The discharge of
this duty is peculiarly painful in dealing with
tho class of offenders to which you belong, who
deem it praiseworthy virtue to violate the
law, and then seek its penalties with exultation
and defiance. .........
A man of your intelligence must know, that
the enjoyment of a rational liberty ceases the
moment the laws are allowed to be broken with
impunity, and thereby fail to afford any pro-
lection to society,-that if the standard of right
is placed above and against the laws of the
land, those who act up to it are any thing else
than good citizens or good christians. You
must know that when man acts upon any
system of morals or theology which teaches
him to disregard and violate the laws of the
Government that protects him in life and pro-
perty, his conduct is as criminal as his exam pie
is dangerous.
The good order and well being of society
demand an exemplary penalty in your case.
You have broken the law-you express no re-
gret for the act done, but are exuitant in the
wrong.
1t is the sentence of the Court that you pay
fine of $500 and costs of prosecution, and
that you bo imprisoned in the county Jail of
Cuyahoga County for the term of sixty days
from this time, and if for any cause your con-
inement can net be had in this county Jail, it
will be the duty of the United States Marshal
to see it carried out in some other county Jail
in this District" .-'
This sentence was received with quietness
by the prisoner and his friends.
COPY OF THE REoUIsITIoH.
William H. Seward, Governor of the State of
New York:
of Ohio:
1t appears by the annexed papers duly au-
thenticated according to the
(Seal.) laws of our State, that Henry
Jackson, Fernon H. Linden
berger and Hiram v. Wilson
(Signed,) stand charged in this State
WIN. Fl. SEWARD. with having without lawful
.... authority inveiged and kid
mapped person with intent
to cause such person to be sent out of this State
and to the State of Louisiana against his will,
there to be held in service against his will, and
it has been represented to me that they have
fed from the justice of this State and have
taken refuge within the State of Ohio.
Now, therefore, pursuant TO the provisions
of the Constitution and Laws of the United
States in such case made and provided, do
hereby require that the said Henry Jackson,
Vernon II. Lindenberger and Hiram v. Will
son be apprehended and delivered to George
B. Gates and Joel W. Barton, who are hereby
duly authorized to receive them and convey
them to the State of New York, there to bo
dealt with according to law.
In witness whereof, have hereunto affixed
my name and the Privy Seal of the State this
twenty fifth day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
| forty-one.
BY the Governor.
(Signed,) HENRY UNDERWOOD,
.. Private Secretary. b
Endorsed: "Requisiton of Governor Of New
York for Jackson, Lindenberger and Wilson" /"
Warrant issued to Sheriff Of Cuyahoga, oc-
tober 5, l84l."