The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

might again rivet upon a fellow-man the chains
he had nobly succeeded in shaking off. The chase
Was over the open fields, and when, in the long
run) there Was but a single fence between ANDER-
SON and nicicis, the hitter, stick in hand, leapt
the fence and intercepted the flight. The
desire to be free—that holy and irrepressible in-
stinct which heaven planted in man's breast, was
dominant, and ANDERSON felt as every man
ought to feel that, rather than return to
bondage and stripes, it was his bounden and
sacred ditty to vindicate his manly birthright,
and secure his oWn eniancipation, if he could do
so by any effort of strength, and by any means
within lii`s reach: Aceohlitigl; it is said that he
lifted upon biGUEs and killed him. This is said
to have occurred in Howard County, in the State
of Missouri, so long ago as the year 1853. By
this and other desperate adventures, poor
ANDERSON ultimately succeeded in achieving his
liberty. He and his wife, having once set foot
dri anadibi soil; Chid lOok back uPon
baffled pursuers with a calm and satisfied smile.
And now, after husband and wife have enjoyed
the sweets of a free home for seven years, he has
been seized and found liable, by British judges, to
be sent back to certain slavery, if not equally
certain death. The poor captive looked anxiously
around upon the court as if he would have appealed
to the hearts of British freemen to help him out of
the meshes of an unjust, if not an unjustly inter-
. preted, but apparently convinced that their
sympathy; hoWever warm, could not avail him,
we are told that he turned his gaie upon the
judges, and listened attentively and intelligently;
a deep sigh oillY no* arid again hedifin6 iiP His
broad and Manly chest. 'these sighs were not
heaved in vain. They were heard in heaven—
they are re-echoed on earth and a deep response
from every English heart loudly demands that
this British freeman cannot, dare not, shall not;
iio restored to a statd of hdrrid liondage tinder the
iirelefided sanction of _itny flritish laW adthinis-
tered bY British jUdgcs: Ire:Cannot recognise as
British 1,4 enaetnierity li.c4eVer Worded at
sanctioned, which might be employed to convert
into goods and chattels millions of human beings.

We have no inclination, and it seems to us as
little to the purpose, to enter into a legal argu-
ment as to the construction and effect that might
be given to the wording of treaties and statutes
supposed to bear Upon and regulate the question
of 6.-.triclition of h'eeniati front Canadian
*ho, in defence of his liberty, slew his fiendish
pursuer. Whutercr such an [la inay be called- in
the United States whether manslaughter,
murder, or aught else—British law can only
recognise it as a perfcetly justifiable act, and not
such tht ebb as ought to plate its author in the
CategorY Oferithinctls_*honi e Linde to eto slur-
render to the piper foreign authorities. In our
eyes ANDERSON has committed no offence. Why,
then, should he be treated as if he had ? If,
according to the strict letter of any existing
treaty or statute, such treatment appears to be
permissable, we can only say of it that, being
contrary to the fUndathental principles and spirit
Of ail laty and ekin4 as itdmitiistered by
Britain; such z; treaty Or itiltiltb l ile`Cesiiiili;
mill mitt f•i
mitt d 6 ma°. As we have said,
however, the matter must, in all likelihood,
come before the Privy Council. Let the people
of England who have tasted of, and daily enjoy,
the blesings of freedorri; see to it; without delay,
thdt tlleie arise tin thistalce in this Matters
Let petitions to the Privy Council be got up
everywhere, and let everybody sign one on behalf
of poor ANDERSON and the hundreds of fugitives
in Canada, whose liberties are equally at stake
with his. Let no effort be spared until the
decision of the queen's Bedell at Toronto has
been reversal; aiid until theie fen-laid fidt the
barest shadow of a dour, as to the impossibility
of any British law lending countenance, encou-
ragement, or protection to the accursed system of
American Slavery. Let us thus again emphatically
declare to the United States, and to the world, that
Wel -111,64.773 Mid ttio pdr9tiit of firinitrieSs are tlit
heaven-born arid inalienable rights of eierY
honeit Mari; *hritetet may be the Colour or coriF;
piejcion of his sitih; tirltj thdt 1d treaty or
statute shall any subject of the British CL'ro,,+ti
ever be placed helplessly at the mercy of the
polluted man-stealer of the Southern States of
the American Republic.