New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-05
KIDNAPPING IN INDIANA.

What IS called Democracy IN Indiana b
about as much like genuine Democracy ~ the
Rebel President is like tue illustriOus patriot
whose memory lie insults by usurping bic ,
name. Not content with positive disloyalH,
close alliance with Southern treason, and &C.
tive aid to armed Rebellion, it offers to IL
masters the meaner service which in the SouA
itself only bloodhounds perform, but which
Northern Democrats BY legal or illegal methods
since 1850 have especially delighted to render.
Rendtions under the infamous Fugitive Slave
Act of the Compromise Year were always 70.
garded as one sure method OF appeaslng tho
South and saving the Union. Since the Union
has been shattered in pieces, and slave hunts
according to law can hardly be expected 10
restore what they were not efficient to save. Q
more potent remedy it Is thought may b
found in the practice of kidnapping The
latest cases within our knowledge occurred in
Evansville, town on the banks Of the Ohio.
in the southwest corner Of Indiana.
The business of stealing free blacks and sell.
ing them into slavery has been pursued in that
town for weeks and months past in the most
open aud shameless way. Negroes, whom no
body ever pretended to claim As slaves have
been seized in the streets, on steamers. Ia
bouses. and without the fmsiest pretenss Of
legal proce.s have been taken across the river
into Kentucky, there to be cold for the in
teyest Of whom it might concern. The Eran'
rifle Daily Journal asserts that even oihcsn q
the town chosen 10 enforce the laws, have
been accomplces in these crimss-crimes whose
least wickedness is that they are utterly lilo
gal.
The instances related 10 The JOr7sa arc Of
peculiar atrocity. Seventy-6ve blacks were
brought from Missouri, through Illinois, 10
Indiana, and shipped from Evansville, 10 tbt
night, to Kentucky. They might have been
slaves twenty times over in Missouri, but they
became free by law the moment they werv
taken into a Free State. To send them agais
into Slavery was legally US well as morally
kidnapping. Another case was that Of Negro.
formerly belonging to Rebel officer, who was
captured by Gen. Curtis aud put to work On
the Government Notifications. He was finally
released at Cairo, made his way to Evansville,
was there entrapped on board steamer. at.
tempted to escape. was stopped and mercilessly
beaten by the Evansville officers, then carried
over the river to Owensboro, and into hope
less bondage. Worst Of all, negro who
served with the Union forces under Col. Foster
ast Fail in Kentucky as 4 guide, and gave
master was guerrilla in the Rebel service,
was seized in the day time, while at work. by
NO white vagabonds. in order to be carried
INTO Kentucky aud sold on speculation. Fer
i'm, as for the others, these was no refuge OF
ielp.
Similnr transactions, says lie Joaraai occur
almost daily, yet in a community which Gale
tsef Christian there ID no compassion, no
ustice, 40 protection for the negro. There
ire laws against kidnapping, but they find 10
upport in tho pablo sentiment or that part Of
he s.ate, and arc practically imperative.
There ara courts, but they recognize in tho
blacks no rights which white men arc bound
% respect. There are pulpits,. but the religion
Iation of negroes. There is at least ono
newspaper, The Journal, which eXpeses aud
lenounces these crimes, ba, secms to %
,owerless TO prevent them.
1t nsed not amaze anybody to find these prae-
zeal Illustrations Of Democratic principles Id
hat section of Indiana. 1t was Ia Newburg'
, town adjoining Evansville, that Democrats
wed ast year, base enough TO guide lTosA
orce that crossed the rive? to murder and ro''
md IN the same. town thai Democratic july
screened their accOmplceS by disagresus~
in tie face of the clearsst evidence Oh IIe'
guilt. The 0Sly difference between tsiS
mocracy and the treason which hides Us OIL
under the same name nearer home is tna' QUO
is holder than the othsr and exhibits moro
complete Development of thu ideas An1 pu''
poses which arc cOnMon 10 both.