Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-04-12
Dastardly Conduct of Federal
Officials. -

SOh0ssSt FfOeE0I
Officials.
From. the Boston Irapeller we get the
particulars of the arrest of Mr.. r. B. San
born, at Concord, Mass, on writ from he
Harper Ferry Committee Of the Senate,
Some halt. dozen government officials
went at night 10 Mr, Sanborn's house, rang
his bell, and on Mr.. s. coming to the door,
one of then handed Mr.. S. decoy letter,
which read thus:
aSR:-The bearer, worthy young man,
solicits your aid in procuring employment.
Help him if you can. BUFFUM.
Saugus, April 1, 1860"
Having fully identified their man, by his
receiving the letter and opening it, the
chief officer called up Eve assistants and,
seizing Sanborn, put handouts on him
and hustled him towards a carriage. He
resisted, broke the carriage door, and be-
fore they could get off with their prisoner,
writ of Habeas Corpus took him out of
the hands of the officers, and the result Of
that we had BY telegraph.
The account of the affair says:
Mr.. Sanbern's sister resisted to the ex-
tent Of her power. When they got him to
the door the sister ceased her resistance
and screamed at the top of her voice and
alarmed the neighbors, q score of whom
were soon on the spot. By the time they
got there Sanborn had been dragged into
the middle of the street, without bis hat
and in his stocking feet. Sanborn at this
,,o;pt hold mn h;c ,oopooIad b,nJ, .,,o- -.
head, and shaking them said: "Citizens,
look and see what the United States SEN
ate have done for me-" His remarks made
great sensation among the crowd, and
matters began to look squally for the q.
s. officers. In the meantime messenger
was dispatched to ring the bells, and soon
they were pealing out the alarm upon the
evening air. The crowd was momentarialy
increasing. lsr
Mr.. Sanborn's sister, seeing the crowd
surrounding the officers and her brother, and
that she could do no more service there,
seized the whip from the carriage and began
belaboring the horses,in good earnest, but
one of the men took the whip from her
She then jumped into the carriage to pre-
vent her brother being put into it, but she
was taken out with more force than polite
ness, having her clothes torn in the strug-
gle.
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 aud
arousing citizens. Men rushed TO the scene
with clenched fists, some of which contain
ed effective weapons. - ao
The women, ike the mothers of yore,
were foremost in the fray, and by every
possible means worried the officers. Miss
Sanborn seized an officer by his beard and
compelled him to relinquish his hold of
Mr.. Sanborn. Miss Ann Whiting, daught-
or of Colonel Whiting, approached officer
Tarleton, raised his hat, and looking him
steadily in the face, said, "Let me see what
kind of looking man you are. You may
come here again some day, and l shall
want to know your r.sl lf IS "a f
Mr.. George L. Prescott seized the arm
of an officer, beneath the coat sleeve Of
which s'billy" was concealed, and held on
to it until Mr.. Sanborn was released.
Nothing but the assurance that writ
would soon be obtained and Mr.. Sanborn
released in legal way, prevented the ex-
asperated citizens from punmeling the Of
fcers and reseuing the prisoner. ~ ad, 3,
- The citizens generally, without distinc-
ton of party, united in sympathizing with
Mr.. Sanborn. But three men were found
who defended the course of the officers,
and one of them was Postmaster, an an
other an officer in the Custom House. The
latter was roughly handled in the melee by
George Howard, Town Clerk, who laid the
democratic official on his back in ditch.
We cannot imagine why Federal officials
do not serve their writs as State officers do.
1t seems to be part of the nature of many
of Buehanan's hirelings to- sneak around
like clothes-lins thieves; do their work in
the dark and then do it by exercise of brute
force. The people wish the Harper's Fer
ry Investigating Committee, aud every
other Investigating Committee, to probe
all the outrages committed at Harper S
Ferry and Washington, to the bottom, and
no forcible resistance and no opposition
save such as is according TO LAWS 10 be
apprebended, save from Mr.. Buchanan and
some of his office holders. All the people
ask is that light may be, thrown upon the
doings in the White House, and the doings
in the log houses among the mountains
near Harper's Ferry. q bs-rb yiao ] d
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