New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-16
FROM BOSTON.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.

and process by ~hich the UniHx STATES Senate
Undertook 10 enforce ts warr'h Mr.. Ssab ,rp is
gentleman, and respects ole citizen of Concord.
lis dealings with the Se;,abe have been courteous
Isd polite. His eoyreApsadeDce with Toe Ioqui,i.
oral CO1mittee has been cOuched IN respectful
erms. He hts denied its power to compel his at.
endence at Washington, but this is 70 more than
ioZ<n members OF the Senate have done. Some of
he best lawyers Of the country ere of the same
opinion Mr.. Hyatt came TO Boston some weeks
AGO with the intention of testing the same question
before our Supreme Court, but he was
advised to submit, and to return with Nc
Nair to Washington. He did this voluntarily,
for the Sergeant-at-Arms, W hen he arrived here,
missed bis carpetbag, and had no warrant with
which be could compel Attendance. Mr.. Hyatt gets
paid for his magnanlmty by imprisonment III jail Tor
On unlimited period. Dir. Sanborn prefers TO leave
his case to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,,
rather than to partisan majority of the Senate and
a artisan Court at Washington. This plan does
not suit the United States Senate, which thereupon
sends half a dozen blackguards to prowl about the
Village of Concord in the night, TO decoy Mr.. San
born to his door by fraudulent letter. and then to
seize and hurry him out of the State before legal
process can be issued for his protection. It is
not Eatter Of surprise that such event as this
should excite the Indignation of men OF all classes
and all parties, that upon the impulse of the mo-
meut violence was Threatened, and, in one or two
instances used, upon the agents Of the Senate. No
fun account of the transaction has yet appeared in
print; but am informed, by persons who were
present that it was with the greatest difficulty that
the people were restrained from using very violent
measures. 1t has been supposed that the writ of
habeas corpus issued by Judge Hoar was necessary
for the protection snd rescue of Mr.. Sanborn. On
the contrary had not been for that legal process
the officers would hardly have escaped out of town
with whole skins. Mr.. Sanborn would have been
delivered out OF their hands half an hour earlier than
be was delivered. After the writ was served, two
or three Of the ruians made t. bite the duet,
and were severely kicked and maued, and, untor.
tunately they were not so well prepared for the APP
plication of boot leather as the Chicago gentleman,
whose mode of dscharging political debt was re-
lated in the THE TRIBUNE a few days Ell &C. One
of them has since sa d that he never saw men so
terribly in earnest as Mr.. SanbOrns neighbors, 90
the night of the 3d. and that he never was IN such
bodily fear and peril.
Concord people are quite proud of their achieve
ments and are full of IecdOtes OF prOwess exhibit
ed It's curious to hear the BIttrck the Barretts
the HOsmers who were out TO defeat the kidnapping
attempt, and to remember that tbese a the names
which figure 30 conspicuously in history as leaders
in the affair of April, l775. l do not anticipate
however, any further fOrcible resistance. Ii the
Senate sends its Sergeant at Arms, with an ade-
quste force and directs him 10 proceed in an open
manner, and not like thief and burglar, do not
believe the Concord people will make resistance,
whatever Mr.. Sanborn may do. 1t is no dishOnor
to evade arrest. Hancock and Adams did that
and why should not Mr.. Sanborn do not be-
lieve he will be carried to Washington. If he and
his friends 90 not resist, he may fly; or he may
consent to an arrest and rely upon the inerpOston
OF the Courts for it Is the impression that
he is safe in their So the chances are that
Mr.. Sergeant McNair will go back with flea in
his ear if he ventures into Massachusetts upon an
errand of the sort now said TO be contemplated.
1t is certainly to be hoped, however, that the
Senate of the United States will dec inc to make
any further efforts to arrest unwilling witnesses. 1t
is time for the minority to enter their protest against
these proceedings. The Senate may bave the right
which 1t claims but it is not compelled to exercise
ifs night, and good sense and prudence would seem
to dictate the propriety of forbearsnee hereafter.
Nobody doubts that the inquiry 10 q humbug-a
ridicuous contemplate humbug 1t was started
upon the superstition that John Brown had
lccompGces throughout the North who were
identified with the Republican organization.
This idea has been abandoned long ago.
Dr. S. G. Howe, Mr.. j. A. Andrew, and others,
II The radical Republican sort have been summoned
% Washington and examined but no evidence tend
Dg to inplicste them or any other Republicans has
20 obey, viz: Mr.. SanbOrn, Mr.. Redpath, and Mr..
John Brown, jr., not Republicans, in any party
sense of the word though they may occasionally
have voted for Republican candidates. SO there is
no pretence that the investigation can be OF any
further partizan use, and it never had any other
than q partizan purpose. If pursued il will be for
purposes of aggravation, and insult, aud violence
Let the majority of the Senate acknowledge its
mstahc by silently dropping the subject and 90
about the business of legislation If il makes any
further attempts to summon witnesses, the people
will begin 10 inquire with some earneslness why the
late Governor of Virginia is not also summoned.
be processes to know more about the " raid" than
anybody else. Why is not his knowledge forced
out Of him Is it to be kept till October or Novem-
Der, and then TO be realed upon the stump, with
exagferations, and fictitious parra-
tiyes, in the usual style of the rage of A scomac
The account which was sent TO the New-YOrk
press of the legislative proceedings relative TO the
SanbOrn arrest, did injustice 10 the House of
1t is true that the resolve author.
zing the Attorney General to appear ia the case
was "laid upon the table," but not until after the
legal question had been decided by the Supreme
Court, and there was no necessity for legislative
The test question was upon granting
cave to Mr.. Brown of Concord to introduce the
resolve, and upon this the vote was, Yeas, 142; !
Nays, 20. In view of these procee lings, TIE
Boston Courier begs leave TO record its deliberate
70 and solemn protest. To which, as far as L
Know, there is not the slightest objection. 1t is,
however, unfortunate that the Legislature has adj
ourbed so the protest cannot be entered upon the
Ournal of the House. Doubtless succeeding Legis-
atures will make a note of it, and govern them
selves accordingly
Nothing startling occurred during the last days Of
he Legislative session. Governor Banks vetoed
he bill allowing the people Of CharlestOwn b. take
water from Mystic Pond and has thus entitled him
elf otbe everlasting gratitude of Mr. Everett, who
WINS some property in Medford, which was likely
o be injured in value if the project had been
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