It will be seen by the further proceedings in this case, which we publish in another column, that Deputy marshals Jenkins and Crozier were discharged from the arrest on the warrant of Esq. Burrows, by his Honor Judge Grier. In our humble opinion, the Judge performed his duty in doing this; and we believe his view on the legal points involved, will be supported and vindicated by the more able portions of the legal profession in the country.
    We do not like all that Judge Grier says pending the hearing before him. We cannot perceive wherein Esq. Burrows, was in the least in fault. The warrant, of course was demanded of him upon the oath of a person, that an attempt had been made by the defendants to kill a certain person therein named; and the Justice, upon such a charge, was in duty bound to issue the warrant. Judge Grier, ought not to have let his indignation towards Gildersleeve, the person who instituted the proceedings by swearing out the warrant, extend to the magistrate.
    We cannot censure the Judge for feeling indignant about the prosecution. When we reflect, that the proceedings to arrest the "Fugitive" had terminated in the negro getting off first best, accomplishing his liberty with less injuries than he had inflicted upon his persecutors and making a final escape by the "under ground rail road! (undoubtedly) beyond the St. Lawrence; we cannot but look upon the attempt to manufacture abolition capital out of a criminal proceeding against the U. S. Officers, as a purely fanatical piece of folly. When has the effort been made, to capture a runaway slave in the Free States East of the Ohio since the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law; but similar conduct, to the proceedings against the officers in this case, was manifested in each case, by the abolitionists and other haters of our Constitution and Laws? And in many cases actual resistance was opposed to the execution of the law, by this class of treasonable men, forcibly aiding the escape of the Fugitive.
    The object of this resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law, is apparent:--seeking only to render it odious, and create schemes, to operate the severance of the Union. Is it love for Freedom?--Sympathy for the Slave, that actuates the nullifiers of our National harmony and prosperity, to play the Tory and the Traitor in our midst. Was it sympathy for Bill Thomas, in the present case, that resulted in the ridiculous and crazy prosecution against Marshal Wyncoop and his Deputies? What need of such morbid sympathy for Bill Thomas? What of his later history? Sold in Virginia, by the administrator of an Estate, to a gentleman of Georgia, and purchased by his present owner at the Nigger's own importunity, to save him from the Rice fields bordering upon the land of Magnolias and Everglades. Entrusted with his master's property and confidence, and acknowledging his kindness, he took advantage of his trust, and moved towards the North-facing Compass, under the seductive attraction of the Abolition Magnet. Where is the sympathy for the owner, for his loss of fifteen hundred dollars? Surely not from him whose wealth, in part, has been derived from the labor and muscle of slaves, and the profit all snugly secured. It is a notable fact however, that the man who daily feasts and riots upon the gains resulting from some special occupation from which he has retired, is often heard in loudest complaint against it? It is no more uncommon to find a loudmouthed ranter against Slavery, whose patrimony and means are the effects of the system, than to meet with a radical Temperance man, who wallows in the wealth and luxuries that his own, or his Father's old Sin-house amassed and procured for him.
    Why is it, that so many of the Whig party in the face of the labors of a CLAY, a TAYLOR and a WEBSTER, and of the hearty approval of the same by a FILLMORE, and by their darling old General Scott, so abominate the Fugitive Slave Law? We think we understand it. It is but an expedient, that, connected with the ultraism of Fred Douglas and Abby Kelly may eventually be brought to operate against the success of the Democratic Party. And, in this consists the honesty of these quasi Philanthropists.

Source:

Unknown, "The Wilkes-Barre Slave Case Again," The Luzerne Union, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wednesday, 19 October 1853, page 2, col. 7.