The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-02-02
DIdn't Make Out a Case.


and are much better observed in the North
thar in the South; and that greater
respect exists in the minds of Northern peo-
pie for the rights of the South than mani
tests itself in the South for the rights of our
section"
Amongst other instances we mentioned |
the arrest and rendition of the fugitive wo- |
man Lucy at Cleveland, o., to her owners |
the Messrs Goshorn, of Western Virginia.
We showed that here was a case where a
slave escaped and fed to city in the very
heart of the most extreme anti-slavery re-
gion in the Union, and yet was given up
almost for the asking to her owners.
The vincennes Sun, Democratic paper,
does not take our arguments as conclusive.
The editor differs from US, as witness the
following:
Not too fast friend. To be sure the IA
natics of Cleveland had the good sense, in
this instance, to overcome their natural dis
nosition to thwart the execution of the
law. but how was it with their allies in the
towns along the route through which this
slave passed on her way home? The abo-
litionists, black and white, assembled in
great force at Lima-drew up in line on
each side of the road, armed with deadly
weapons, prepared to take the girl by force,
and were only prevented by a ruse of the
conductor from making an attack on the
train. Some of the disappointed rescuers,
it is said. even fred their guns at the re-
treating train, but fortunately no one was
injured.
And vet, in the face of these facts, the
Evansville paper has the effrontery to cite
this case as showing what a "great degree
of respect exists in the North for the rights
of the South''-how anxious his friends in
Northern Ohio are to see the laws enforced
A choice illustration, truly
The Vincennes editor acknowledges that
the fanatics of Cleveland Gas he calls
them) respected the law, but says resist
ance was threatened at Lima. Resistance of
formidable character was threatened and
but for the fact that the rioters were foiled
by the presence of mind and GOODNESS of the
conductor in running his train past the sta
ton without stopping, bloody fight would
probably have occurred between the rioters
and the special force of the U. S. Marshal,
who were we'll armed. But the Sun mis-
states the fact when it says that the per-
sons engaged in this threatened re-
sistance were both white and black.
They were all blacks; the account by the
Cleveland Plaindeaer-a Democratic paper
so states. No white men were concerned
in this lawless demonstration. On the con-
trary the Messrs. Goshorn have published
card in the Cleveland Herald Republican,
warmly acknowledging the uniform courte-
sy they received from the citizens of Cleve-
land.
Moreover, the blacks engaged in the at
tempt to rescue a0iH be punished The au-
thorities are now engaged in ferreting out
those who participated, in order that the
majesty of the law may be INDICATED.
Let Us ask the Sun editor a question:
According to your bred Scott creed, ne
gro is not a citizen of the United States
Why then hold the white citizens of this
country responsible for their lawlessness.-
You can't say with justice that the peo-
pie Of the North disregard the Fugitive
Slave Law because thirty or forty negroes
attempt q rescue of one of their own blood
in her return journey to bondage Your
argument is utterly without reason.
But, besides the defense we have given
above to the Suns accusation, we are able
to disprove the charge of disregard of fed
eral law against the Republicans by para
graph appearing as editorial in the same
number of the Sun from which we clip the
above extract:
s. NJ Booth, the negro thief and higher
law disciple of Seward, is now an inmate of
the Jail at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daily
companion of burglars and other criminals.
His mind is said to be giving way and his
clothes sadly need the hand of the tailor.
He is a graduate of Yale College, and at one
time was regarded as one of the most bril-
liant young men of the Northwest but a
disregard of law and the ordinary decencies
of life have brought him to his present con-
dition.
We ask Mr.. Green what has brought this
man to his acknowledged deplorable coudi-
tom Nothing else than his rebellion
against the Fugitive Slave Law, and his
prompt and condign punishment by the au-
thorities in the State of Wisconsin-one of
the most decided Republican States in the
Union, having given Lincoln Sc, ITO votes
out of 1872, $50, or 2o,O4O over all other can
didatesl Is the Sun satisfied with this in
dicatien- of Republican loyalty to National
obligations
B@On the 2!st inst Hon. W. E. Niblack
presented to the House of Representatives
the resolutions adopted at the working men s
meeting in this city on the 18th inst. and
endorsed them in full. The resolutions
were laid on the table and ordered to be
printed
EG-The Madison Daily Banner Ia aper
that used to be familiar to us as an old Wing
paper after having suspended three or four
has haap