The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-01

William Jonos--The CoIored Prisoner.
This man is row confined IN jail at
Washington, on suspicion OF being slave,
and having an owner somewhere The
Globe, at Washington, recently sent out
the following advertisement.
NoTICE,-Was committed 10 The iajl
of Washington County, D. c., on the II
Dec. 1913, a negro man, who calls him
self William Jones. He is a very dark
muIatto, about feet Ct inches high and
between "a and 25 years of age; had on,
when committed blue cas3iuel paula,oons
and light linsey roundaborts. He saws
be is free. Lives, when al home, IN
Richmond County, Va He has scar
on lhe outside of the RICH! arm, between
the elbow and the wrist He Says the
last person he lived with was M. Daw-
SOD, who keeps IA tavern about three mi Is
This side of Richmond. He also saws
that Mr.. John Farrall and Tho. HoDn.ts.
Farmers in the same neighborhood Of Mr..
Ddwson) know him. He says he was
brought here by Capt. Fugitr, ho runs
a vesse and lives about the Navy Yard.
The owner or owners of the above
described negro man are hereby required
TO come forward, prove him, and lake
him away, or he will be sold Tor his
prison and other expenses, as the law
directs. ROB HALL, for
A. HUNTER, Marshal.
On the 28th of Dec. last, Joshua r.
Giddings, of Ohio, rose in C,neress, and
presented petition from Mr. Jones, sat
ing that he was a free eitiEea of the U.
States that while enjoying his bithright
OF rerdom, he was forciby sejzed, with
out the accusation of crime. put into the
prison, and was 10 be sold to pay his jul
tees, unless an owner should come and
claim him. He presented that he had no
owner but his GJd. and tha; it was hard
to be imprisoned without any fault, and
then sold to pay his jaII fees and appeal
I'd TO Congress, which has exclusive lee.
lsIalon in the d strict, to give him pro.
lection. This petition was the occasion
OF warm debate in The House of Rep
resenlatives, on a motion of Mr.. Giddnes
TO refer it TO a select committee OF five.
and of Mr.. Broadhead, to refer it to the
committee on the Judiciary. Mr.. Dlvis,
al N.ANt- ,,rly
speech; declaring that the North were
not and could not be aboIitionisis; tina; if
slavery were done away, the North would
be flooded by black population, and that
in case such an event should happen, he
should 60 for dissolution of the Unon
Thus he loves his counlrv, and human
freedom! Rather than have three aud a
half millions set free from the bio, diest
bondage on earth, 10 90 where Interest or
choice might lead them, he would have
them remain in chains, till another TouS-
saint L Overture shall arise to pr ocIaim
freedom TO his race by a baptism OF blood
There Is one sentiment expressed by
Mr.. Davis, which goes even bevond anv
we have heard from toe most 'aualcai
of The 'ulraists'
"Mr. DIS own individual opinion was,
that slavery could not exist 10 this Ds-
trict that the moment this Disrrt came
within the jurisdiction of this Govern
meUt, that Instant, by the operation o iav,
slavery was at an end here; for be held
that there were illustrations to the Consi.
tuition OF the country, and that while Con-
greSs could no. make king /, could not
make slave. His opinion was also that
slavery could not exist IN the Territories
under the Government OF this count, Y. 90
matter whence or how they were aoquir-
ed that the instant the territory became
the territory of the United States, that
slavery ceased therein
AS an opiate to qoiet the North, the
subject was referred 10 a committee, so
that some facts will be given in reference
to the saleabIlity OF a man, upon the pre-
sumption Of his being a slave, for The
purpose of paying his Jail fees. II is
thought The matter will end in a repeal Of
this most wicked slave law.
E. X. Arery,-The report, that this
man confessed, upon his death bed, the
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