St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-04-19


tive of the United States and the ex-
ccutivc officers of that Commonwealth.
AS to the last point taken, the Court
was not prepared to say that the Sen
ate could not have its precepts served
outside Of the District of Columbia.
On the third point, that the Ser
geant-at-Arms could not dcpute his
authority to other persons, there was
no doubt, and all the Court were
agreed that he had no such authority.
4 warrant of this sort must be limit
ed to the person to whom it is given
by the Senate. H aTa" . g.
The order of the Court was that
Sanborn be discharged. The rendi-
ton of the decision called forth demon
STATIONS of applause, which was
speedily checked. The court room
was thronged Sanborn left with his
friends for home.
Mr.. Sanborn makes the following
lowing additional statement in regard
to the arrest:
81 at first offered no resistance, but
when the handouts were put on re.
fused to 60, not having heard any
warrant, or seen any signatures, or
been told the names of the officers, or
the nature of my offence, so far as
can recollect. When they dragged
me into the open air, without allow
ing me to put on my boots. overcoat
or hat, l called murder and resisted
with my feet as well as could with
four stout men holding me. They
dragged me to the carriage, which
had been brought up by a fifth or sixth
confederate, and attempted to put me
in. broke the side of the carriage
with my feet, and my sister selling
one Of the ruffians, they dropped me
on my feet again. Again they tried
to put me in, but my sister whipped
the horses, which started and foilcd
them again. They We're still strug-
Cling with me and her five men
against a man and a woman, when
the neighbors came running to my
aid. The rufiians still attempted to
kidnap me, but they soon found they
were overpowered then, and not I'M
til then, did they read their warrant
in the street, by the light of a lantern,
while l stood handcnffed and hall
clothed in their hands. This must
have been fifteen minutes after my
first seizure"
While the writ of habeas corpus was
being prepared, the crowd stood round
the officers and gave vent to their feel
ings in Kisses, groans, &c, calls more
emphatic than complimentary, such
as these are the men who struck
down Charles Sumner" &c. One OF
the officers turned round and made
some kind of a threat to a bystander,
when he was Immediately seized by
the waist and pitched headlong into a
sandbank, and Immediately half doz-
en- men were piled on top Of him.
In the meantime some of the citi-
zcns had applied to Justice Ball for
warrant to arrest the United States
officers for assault and battery.
The warrant was issued, but be-
fore it could be got ready to be
served, the officers took to their car.
rage and fled, and were pursued to
the town of Lexington, but they were
subsequently arrested, and on the 9th
inst, Silas Carlton, Deputy Sergeant
at-at-Arms of the United States Sem
ate, Watson Freeman, Jr., Deputy
United States Marshal, and Messrs.
Hallidge and Tarlton, appeared before
Justice Ball, at Concord, charged with
assault and attempt to kindnap Frank
b. Sanborn. They waived an exam
ination and gave bail in $4,000 each
to appear for trial at the next term of
the Supreme Court.
1t is said that with two exceptions,
the postmaster and custom house
officer, the Democrats entered most
heartily into the spirit Of the people
Of the town. All were indignant at
the manner in which the arrest had
been made.
The feeling manifested by the liber-
.y-loving citizens of Concord, when
Inc intelligence of the arrest reached
hem, was akin to the spirit displayed
~ their patriotic forefathcrs in ear
Ter times.
The boys in Mr.. Sanborn's school,
seeing the peril in which their beloved
mentor was placed, acted as scouts,
and ran hastily from house to house,
ringing door bells and arousing citi-
zens. Men rushed to the scene with
clinched fists, some of which con-
tanned effective weapons.
The women as Of yore were foremost
in the fray, and by every possible
means worried the officers. Miss San
born seized an officer by the beard
and compelled him to relinquish his
hold Of Mr.. Sanborn Miss Ann Whit
ing, daughter Of Colonel Whiting, APP
preached officer Tarleton, raised his
hat, and looking him steadily in the
face, said, "Let me- see what kind Of
a looking man you are. You may
come here again some day and ! shall
want to know you'll"
Mr. George l.. Prescott seized the
arm Of an officer, beneath the coat