Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-10-02
No. 81

as having originated with and been carried
into effect by the citizens Of the non-slaye
h~oldlnggsstate, and that the slave has ac-
tually been lost to the owner owing to n
connlvance Of her officers, OF thse want If
sufficient and proper Legislation on the sub
Ject. This doctrine Of reprisals seems at
flrst blush like wal and disumon but if It
wears that aspect, the non-slaveholding
otates are to BE- charged as the authors Of
SO dlsagfceable an issue. We are seeking
only to protect and defend a fight g,Iaran.
tced to US by the constitution 10 which we
are all alike parties, and by which we are
all equally bound.
The question naturally arises here. are
there no laws in existence providing the
means whereby the injured party can OBJ
tam possession of bis property. There is
no doubt that regulations on the subject
exist, but let mc ask Of what 5aneft to tie
ciffzen, when he discovers that those ar.
pointed to execute them are prevented by
the violence or fraud Of the people Who
ought TO lend him their aid in CARRYING the
laws into effect7 Let us suppose a case
"a citizen of Ohio arrives in New. Orleans s
with a ilatboat loaded with the produce Of
Ills farm-a set of individuals combine to-
swindle him-they proceed by fair repre-.
sensations to obtain possession of his.
property, and by secret means dispose Of
1t IN snch u way that the poor man can
neither recover the price or the thing it.
selt-thc officers OF justice when applied
to remain inactive, or their action is rem
dered abortive by the hostile feelings of the
community, and by persons who coyertly
ASSIST the sw'ndlers in carrying out their
schemes. We may be- told that this is not
a case IN point, Or such as can ever occur
OF the abolltio1lists in cnticing off our slaves
IN any civilized community, and vet in the
instance supposed we have the very Gets
IRON their owners No people would
complain more loudly than these sancti-,
moatons defenders of what they miscall
human rights, if the rule of robbing, under
the guise Of p~Aaaathrophy, were applied
to themselves, and none would be more
apt TO use the means most effectuaI to
to remedy the mischief.
Ii you should, Mr.. Editor, think proper
to give place in your paper to the forego-f
ing remarks, |, may perhaps pursue the
subject a little further or some future oc-,
easfon. am, very respectfully, one of
your SUBSCRIBERS.
THE BR;rIsu EXPLORING EXPEDITION,
under Capt. Ross and Couzin, it is stated
in fhe English papers, succeeded in get
ting four degrees further South than either
the american or French discovery vessels,
and We're enabled to fix the exact position
OF the south and magnetic pole at about
100 miles distance from thence. Some
mistake, tie English account
says, appears TO have affected the e~aIcula.
tons OF the American ait%houglin the course
OF the voyage the English were enabled to
verify the correctness of many Of the spots.
laid down in the charts of the former; thew
also discovered one single error, viz: the
of water over a large space de-
scrlbed as land, and which the Erebus and
Terror actually sailed over for a very con
siderable distance, %leaviHs the land three
miles from the latitude laid down
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