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| 354 THE UNDERGROUND RAIL BO AD. "The unwarrantable outrage committed last week, at Christiana, Lancaster county, is a foul stain upon the fair name and fame of our State. "We arc pleased to see that the officers of the Federal and State Governments are upon the tracks of those who were engaged in the riot, and that several arrests have been made. "\Ve do not wish to see the 'poor misled blacks who participated in the affair, suffer to any great extent, for they were but tools. The men who are really chargeable with treason against the United States Government, and with the death of Mr. Gorsuch, an estimable citizen of Maryland, are unquestionably white, with hearts black enough to incite them to the commission of auy crime equal in atrocity to that committed in Lancaster county. Pennsylvania has now but one course to pursue, and that is to aid, and warmly aid, the United States in bringing to condign punishment, eveiy man engaged in the riot. She owes it to herself and to the Union. Let her in this resolve, be just and fearless." From a leading neutral daily paper the following is taken: "One would euppose from the advice of forcible resistance, so familiarly given by the abolitionists, that they are quite unaware that there is any such crime as treason recognized by the Constitution, or punished with death by the laws of the United States. We would remind them, that not only is there such a crime, but that there is a solemn decision of tbe Supreme Court, that all who are concerned in a conspiracy which ripens into treason, whether prescut or absent from the scene of actual violence, are involved in the same liabilities as the immediate actors. If they engage in the conspiracy and stimulate the treason, they may keep their bodies from the affray without saving their necks from ti halter. It would be very much to the advantage of society, if an example could be made of gome of these persistent agitators, who excite the ignorant aud reckless to treasonable violence, from which they themselves shrink, but who are, not only in morals, but in law, equally guilty and equally amenable to punishment with the victims of their inflammatory counsels." A number of the most influential citizens represented the occurrence to the Governor as follows: "To the Governor of Pennsylvania: The undersigned, citizens of Pennsylvania, respectfully represent: That citizens of a neighboring State have been cruelly assassinated by a band of armed outlaws at a place not more than three hours' journey distant from the seat of Government and from the commercial metropolis of the State: That this insurrectionary movement in one of the most populous parts of the State has been so far successful as to overawe the local ministers of justice and paralyze the power of the law: That your memorialists are not aware that ' any military force' has been |