The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-24

of the confederacy of certain unaliena- ble rights, secured to them by the reyeS lution which separated us from Great Britain, and by the constitution of the United States, under the provisions of which they are entitled to uninterrupted intercourse with all parts ofthe Urion! This is a fair illustration of what would be the facts of the South Carolina doc Urine, which is alike at variance with the permanancy of the confcderacy and the rights Of the individual members of it.
 Si,Euiar Case.-A case of rather sill- guiarkind has occurred in South lare- lima, growing out of the power vested in its Chief Magistrate to commute the punishment of capital offence. "A man named Jeremiah Smith, for crime conn mltted, was sentenced to death in 1891, but was pardoncoby the Governor on condition ef suffering a.n Imprisonment, three months, and then leaving the state, never to return to it. After undergo ing the imprisonment, Smith left South Carolina and settled in North Carolina, near the line of the two states. He was blacksmith, and in 1926, the people of a neighborhood in South Carolina, wanting one of his trade, induced this man by their persuasions, to move into their settlement, assuring him he would not be n any danger, and lis aii;sss,; ,sl- duct since his conditional pardon would make his residence among them saf = It appears that he lived unmolestcd in South Carolina in 1926 and lS27, until one of his .seighbors, with whom i;e had a fight, informed Governor Miller Of Smiths being ntheStatc, whenthe Gov- Iernor issued his proclamation offering U reward for his apprehension. Smith in
 the mean while had returned 10 North Carolina, where he was pursued by l the person with whom he had a.Gghtand
 two or three others, seized and brought. without any legal authority, into South Carolina, and on the affidavit of orc ozf the captors, committed toprison. Having been brought before Cham cellor HarpeE on writ of Habeas Cor pus, it was urged against his discharge,
 that although his arrest in North Caro-
 lima was without authority, yet his de-
 tention in South Carolina was Iawful-- that not having complied, with the con-
 ditions of his pardon, Smith was com
 victed fclon, unpardoned and unpunish.
 ed, and ought not to be again let loosc
 upon the community, no matter how iI- regularly he had been brought within the jurisdiction of South Carolina.
 Among other arguments used by the Icounsel of the prisoner it was contend led, that having become citizen of N. Carolina, he had as such, rights under the Constitution of the United States, of which no inferior tribunal could de- privc hint that clause of the Consti- tuition declares, that"the citizens ofeacl. State, shall be entitled to all the immu- mites of citizens in the Several States That as citizen of North Carolina, ho had right to come into South Car olina, and that in this character l,e came pure into the sister statc-he had not become a citizen in North Carolina upon conditions, as the Constitution makes none. It was contended that the pardon could not affect constitutional rights, and when they came in conflict the conditions of the pardon must yield to the rights which the prisoner had as. quired as citizen oi North Carolina.
 The Chancellor decided against tsis tt.iisz release of the prisoner. and remanded him to jail. His case which has excit- led good deal of interest, is to be again urged on the motion to pass upon liit1, sentence of death. South. Recorder.
 Eheyidan hes said--Give nc the liberty of the press, and will give to tile minister venal house of pcers--I will give him . corrupt and seSvile house of commons---1 will give him full swing of the patronage lof his of6ce--+T will give him the whole host of ministerial infuenceI will give him alI the power that place can confer upon him, | to purchase up submission, and overaw9 Resistance; and yet, armed with the Hber- ity of the press, will go forth 10 sn6s1k :. :. i him undisms ed; will attack with fj5sA lmightier engine tine mighty fabric he bes E !raised; will sIlake down from ifs he;rkf corruption, and busy t beneath the ruin o1s the abuses t was meant to stsltex.