M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-02-23

NuS HIsl luelanCe, OF tne removal O.
the slave by his owner of obtaining
the certificate Of the Judge, or shal
"rescue or aid or abet in the rescue"
OF such slave from the Sheriff, Cousta
bic or claitpent OF "if two or moro
persons sIiaiE assemble, together with
intent to oHstr6rt, hinder, 0f interrupt
the Sheriff,op CONSTABLE 4ih the arrest
or the claimantih the removal Of' sucl
slave, "or make any movement OF
preparation therefor" the person Of
persons so offending shall be fined not
exceeding five hundred dollars, or i'm.
prlS6ned not exceeding sixty days in
the County Jail. The act further pro.
vides that if the claimant shall make
oath that he is not ready for trial, and
that the slave is his, and that he will
be able to prove the same satisfactori.
i ly, it shall be the duty of the Judge
to continue the hearing for period
not exceeding sixty days, and require
the slave to give bond in one thousand
dollars for his appearance, and in de-
fault thereof, to commit him to the
County Jail.
That if any person in this State shall
"counsel, advise or entice" from his
master, or shall "furnish money or
conveyance of any kind, or any other
facility, with intent and for the pur.
pose Of enabling such" slave ito es.
cape from or elu1e" his master, he
shall be fined any sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
in the county Jail not exceeding sixty
Gays, or both, at the discretion of the
court.
The act provides the same punish
ment for any person who shall give to
any slave false certificate of emanci-
patton, or who shall "harbor or con.
ceal" any slave who may come into
this State with the consent Of his mas
ter.
This act passed the House of Rep.
resentatives by a vote of-yeas SO,
nays Is. Among those voting tor the
bill, | find John w. Andrews, of
Franklin, Silas AxteIe, of Geauga !;
- Andrews, Of Lorain; Moses B..
Corwin, of Champaign; Walter Branch
and John @. Camp, of Huron; Geo.
Ii. Flood and Isaac Smucker, of Lick
ing; David Chambers and Charles B.
Goddard, OF Muskingum; P. p. Lowe,
IofM ontgomery; John Hunt, of War.
ren, and Joseph Kyle, of Green. The
bill passed the Senate by a vote Of
yeas 20, nays 10. Among those vot-
ing in the affirmative, | find the name
of Aaron Harlan, of Green, the dis.
gentleman who now repre-
sents that county on the floor of this
House.
Before the passage Of the bill in the
House, an amendment was offered
providing that the fugitive should
have the benefit Of a trial by jury, and
was voted down by--yeas 10, nays As.
Among those voting against the jury
clause in the House, | find all the
gentlemen whom | have named as w.
ting for the bill except Messrs. Brand,
Chambers and Hunt, but neither of
these gentlemen are recorded in the
negative.
A like amendment was offered to
the bill in the Senate, and voted down
by yeas 8, hays 26, and among those
recorded in tAe negative / find the
name of the gentleman from Greene.
Sir, this record shows where Ohio
stood twenty-one years ago, upon the
great question of loyalty to the Con.
stitution and the compromises on
whieh it was founded. bring for.
ward the names OF gentlemen whose
votes are recorded in favor Of this act,
not as reproach to them, but to show
that at that time, at least, they, and
tho great Wing party with which
most of them then acted, were sound
upon tho questions which now divide
the Democ ratio and Republican par
ties. Sir, appeal to the gentleman
from Greene to stand by his early rec.
ord and lend his vote and his influence
to prevent this General Assembly
from disgracing the statute book of
Ohio with the sectional and mischiev-
GUS Legislation with which we are now
threatened; to stand by what he de-
clared in 1889 to be his deliberate
conviction, that the Constitution can
only be sustained, as it was framed,
by spirit OF inst compromise" and
to perform that which he then declared
to be "the duty of those who reap the
largest measure of benefits conferred
by the CONSTITUTE on" namely, "to rec
ognize to their full extent the obliga-
tions which that instrument imposes"
| Go not ask him to co what he did
in 1889, to vote for law to give the
protection pledged by the Constitution
OF the United States to the Southern
States of this Union, for that is already
done by the act Of Congress, but to
join with those who recognise the OBJ
legations of that instrument, and vote
down these bills whose only object is
to nullify the Constitution and the