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place of county tax......March 14, 1853 Cleveland and Toledo Railroad opened......1853 Railroad opened from Wheeling, Va., to Columbus, 137 miles......1854 Baldwin University opened at Berea......1856 Ohio State and Union Law School opened at Cleveland......1856 It is made a penitentiary offence to claim or hold slaves in the State, or to attempt to carry from the State as a slave any person of color......1857 Arrest and confinement in the county jail at Cleveland of Prof. Henry E. Peck, of Oberlin College, and others, under the fugitive slave law, for rescuing at Wellington the negro Little John, taken from Oberlin as a slave by a United States deputy marshal......Sept. 13, 1858 Indicted in the United States court......December, 1858 Bushnell, one of the rescuers, is found guilty in the federal court at Cleveland......April 15, 1859 Supreme Court of Ohio refuse Bushnell's application for a habeas corpus, the proceeding against him in the federal court not b