The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-07-23

| Ole-SeatcQ carriage 1Hey Wcro dIHleu
with Bqwie-knives and revolvers. AS soon
as they overlook young Boynton and
Price, seizing Price, they dragged him
from the buggy in which he was riding, and
forced him into the carriage in which they
rode This they did without making exhi-
bition of the process, or giving any account
of the authority in accordance with which
they acted. Thus, having secured their
prey, by an untravelled route, in the most
expeditions manner, they hurried off to-
wards Wellington. Meantime, Shakespeare
Boynton returned to Oberlin to find An
derson Jennings. of whom he was to re-
ceive compensation for his dirty work. He
found Jennings, reported that the negro
had been captured, and received his reward.
| This ended his connection with this black
and infamous drama After having learn
ed of this miscreant what had been done,
Jennings left Oberlin, and joined his COM
radeS and co-workers in iniquity at Wei
lington.
But before these rufian negro-catchers
arrived at Wellington, fortunately for the
kidnapped man and for the Anti-Slavery
cause, the report OF their doings reached
Oberlin, and thrilled and aroused our COM
munity, already intensely agitated by vii
lainous deeds done within few days prior
to this time by these hunters of men, un-
der the cover of night Now one purpose
only animated the hearts of the people.
Old men and young men, old women and
maidens, all expressed in looks and voice
their determination to rescue this stolen
man. AT once, men of strong heart and
moral nerve-men of stalwart arms and
prowess such as knows no fear-with won
drous determination pictured in their faces,
were seen hurrying off in buggies, car
riages, wagons, and some on horseback,
and others on foot, towards Wellington, a
place yet to be celebrated in story and in
verse, in forensic address and judicial re-
cord, as the scene Of the rescue of John
Price, stolen and kidnapped man, from
his cowardly and brutal captOrs.
1t is not fit that this rescue be dwelt up
on with too great particularly at this time.
Names must not be mentioned. The con-
duct of particular individuals must not be
described. 1t is enough for us to know,
just now that the brave men who came to-
gether in hot haste, but with well-defned
intention, returned as the shades of night
came on bringing silence and rest to the
world, bearing in triumph to freedom the
man who, but an hour before, was on the
road to the fearful doom of Slavery. To
day } ohm Price wallis abroad in his free
dom, or reposes under his own vine and
fg-tree, with no one to modest him or make
him afraid But for this boon-this glori-
Gus boon-he must be ever grateful to
the courageous men who ieopardized
their lives, their property, and their liberty
to secure his release for, according to the
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, those who
rescue a man under such circumstances, or
who aid, assist, and abet in the rescue, are
to be indicted, convicted, imprisoned, and
fined. 1t matters not if its victim be born
in freedom and reared under its benign
influences, and it be thus distinctly under
stood that he is a free man. 1t matters not
if he be kidnapped. In this sense the law
is no respector of persons. Nor does it
make any complexional determinations.
And still it subjects to pains and penalties
most severe and cruel all who oppose its
execution, whether the opposition be vio-
lent, legal, or only such as find an express
sion in prayerful CALCULATIONS in behalf Of
the captured. If this statement be doubt
ed, let the incredulous peruse with thought
fulness and care, the unreasonable, the bias
phemous, and the atheistic charge deliv-
cred by Judge Wilson to the Grand Jury
that found bills of indictment against tbir-
ty-seven citizens of Lorain county, charg-
ing some with rescuing, and others with
aiding and abetting in the rescue of John
Price. If the incredulous are still unmoved
in their unbelief, they would read with edi-
fcation and profit the charges of the same
Judge delivered to the traverse Jurors
before whom Bushnell and Langston were
tried and convicted. All these charges
harmonize with, and strikingly illustrate
this Fugitive Slave Law. 1t is under such
a Congressional enactment-an enactment
whose soul is not unreasonableness, but in
Justice and wrOng-an enactment whose
horrid features are seen in its unconstitu-
tionality, in its denial of the free exercise
of religion, in its subversion of State Sow
reignty and individual rights, and in its
overthrow of all the ancient bulwarks of
liberty and law-that the philanthropic and
Christian men who are now confined in the
jail of Cuyahoga county, together with
those Of the noble thirty who have
been already released from their confne-
ment, were indicted by packed and parti-
zan Grand Jury, of which Lewis d. Boyn-
ton was an influential member.
Of the persons thus indicted, only two
have as yet been tried. Both were found
guilty and sentenced. Mr.. Simeon NJ. Bush
nell, the first one tried, is man Of true
nobility Of soul and Christian fortitude A
man of very small physical endurance, he
has heart capable of the boldest endeav-
or and the most unshrinking purpose in the
discharge of duty. After his conviction,
when ordered to stand up and receive his
sentence, Judge Wilson, seeking to extort
some word Of humiliation and contrition.
asked him if he had anything to say why
sentence should not be pronounced upon
him. In a clear and manly vo;ca no ans