Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-27
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Dangerous Conflict Between the
State and Federal Authorities of
New York.

There has arisen a most important case, which
threatens to embroil the State and Federal Gov
ernment in collision in New York The case is
this: Col. Burke, the commander of Fort La
fyette refuses obedience to the wrts of the State
Courts of New York. He repulsed the Sheriff
of Kings county by military force He declared
that he would not obey and respect the laws He
is acting under general instructions, will be
seen by the following from the New York cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun:
provost Marshal Nugent has received in
structions from Washington not to make returns
hereafter to writs of habeas corpus Issued bv
State judges, further than to state i'm a respectful
manner that such writs must be obtained from
Judges of the United States Cour s, when the
United States is a party to the proceedings"
The State authorities are now called upon to
maintain their jurisdiction. The Kings County
case before alluded to is thus progressing:
APPLICATION FOR THE REMOVAL OF A SHERIFF.
Another step has been taken by the counsel
in the matter of the Baltimore Police Commits
sioners. The Sheriff of Kings County having
certified that he was unable to serve the writ Of
attachment issued by the County Judge against
Colonel Burke (for dsobedience to a writ of ha-
beas corpus), the counsel for the political pris-
oners have now appealed to Governor Seymour
to remove the Sheriff They take the ground, it
is understood that the Sheriff can have sufficient
military force, If he chooses to call for 1t, to cap
ture Fort Lafayette and enforce the State laws ;
that the law itself contemplates no such coutin-
gency as successful resistance to its authority.
"The charges against the Sheriff, duly verified,
were presented to Governor Seymour, at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, in this city, on Friday, the 10th
inst. The Governor took them and promised an
early action upon them. Ii is confidently be-
leved by the complainants that the Kings county
Sheriff will be removed and a new one appointed,
who will call to his aid all the military power of
the State in the effort to enforce its ws"-fNew
York Herald, July l3.
We have little doubt that the Kings county
Sheriff will be removed and nex one appointed,
who will enforce the State laws, if he has to call
out the whole force of Brooklyn for that purpose.
If that is not sufficient, Governor Seymour is
pledged by his message to employ the whole mill
tary force ofthe State to that object Col. Burke
and all Federal officers are as much bound to obey
the laws of the State of New York as the New
York rioters are. There can be no distinction
of persons. The position of the Federal Gov
ernment destroyed all State rights and State laws,
and tramples them in the dust. 1t is a striking
evidence OF the short sighted folly of the author
tiles at Washington that they should thus seek to
destroy the rights of States, which their main
support in this struggle. What possible good can
be effected by collisions with the State authorities
and State coarts? How much better to obey
them cheerfully and with alacrity, and thus avoid
tho most dangerous complication? We speak
now as n matter of policy alone, but how much
higher is the dictate of principle to that endl