Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-08-21
Lucy CraWfOrd'S Case.

When we announced the fact that the Jury
in the case of Lucy Crawford, a petitioner
for freedom, Us. Hope IL. Slater and others.
had brought in a verdict in her favor, we sup
posed the end of the matter had been made
known. But Wi were mistaken. The grasp
of Lucy's former owner, Mrs. Scott, proved
to be death-like-fo it was really her contest
in the name of Slater. A motion for a new
trial was made, and after being delayed from
day 10 day, was finally argued on Tuesday,
before their Honors, Judges Brice, Nesbitt,
and Worthington, of Baltimore city court, by
Charles H.. Pitts, Esq, for the claimant, and
James Nj. Buchanan, Esq, for the petition
er. The court, after considerable delibera-
ton, refused to grant a new trial-to their
credit let the fact be recorded This ends
the matter definitely, so far as Lucy is con-
cerned-she being set at large-but it does
not end the difficulty. Slater will now de-
mand the refnndment of some four or five
hundred dollars, paid by him for Lucy, to
Mrs. Scott; and, if we may judge by her te-
naeity in the proceedings so far, she will
ss4Ssf herself to be sued for tho money. If
so, then will come an interesting war between
STAKEHOLDER and slavedealer, in which Greek
will meet Greek" We shall have an eye to
the result.
Tit termination of the case of petition for
freedom under notice-a result over which
every just and merciful man should rejoice
has made the Shareholders of Prince
Georges county furious, as the tone of the
of their morth-piece, the Upper
Marlboro Gazette, plainly shows. The ed
itor thus vents his rage-or rather that of his
masters and mlstresSeS, uttered through him.
Just hear him:
"The general satisfaction which the Sun
says was expressed on hearing the verdict,
was but another evidence of the growing dis
position on the part of many Baltimoreans to
wrest from the stakeholder, by every means
in their power, their slave property. Some
decided measures must be taken TO check this
unfair and dangerous spirit. The rerdict in
this case can only hare proceeded from Il spir-
IL Of abOAtieHism, for it is to be presumed the
court better understood the law than the ju-
~. 1t is, in fact, nothing but a judicial rob-
berry, and we hope some steps will be taken
by the next General Assembly to remove the
trial of such causes from the City Court,
where Baltimore city jurors are empanneled,
to Baltimore County Court, where %juries
from the COUNTY have to act. In this way the
slave holders of the state will get rid of that
| spirit of abolitionism which is more likely to
be found in the city than in the county of Bal
timore. Indeed in our opinion, IN NO
CASE OF PETITION FOR FREEDOM
OUGHT A JURY TRIAL TO BE GRAN
TED (!!) The court alone should decide
upon the evidence and the law. They are
not so apt to be tinctured with a feeling which
is at war with the interests OF the slavehold,
er, and which, wherever it is found to exist,
will he sure to be employed in prostrating
! slavery in the state"
Now there are some encouraging admis
sions in that paragraph--some reason in its
madness. 1t would afford a text for columns
of comment; but, meeting our eve, as it does
after om paper is nearly made up, we mus
content ourself with only a remark or two
First of all, See tie spirit Of Slavery in tn
desire 10 deny the poor petitioner for Greedon
a jury triat-a process which is, doubtless
never in the way of despotism, in Prince
Georges!
Thankful are we for the +" feeling" com
planned of in the last sentence of the above
iendish paragraph! 1t WILL be sure to b.
employed In 'prostrating slavery in the state
and that in a mode which every body bu
the small band of ultraists for whom tn,
Gazette speaks, will applaud as perfectly
fair, and as gloriously benefci to our slave
ry-cursed state at large, while just to the en-
shaved. Heaven speed the growth Of thi
feeling, until it shall have s%upplanted ever,
vestige of its opposite, which, having one
secured for itself unbridled sway over tn
colored man, and robbed him of the %preciou
jury trial, would aim to deprive the whit
man also of his rights, whenever those right
happened to conflict with the peculiar intel
ests of these iustice-delying u%ltraists. See
ing this, non-slaveholding white men, nee
we ask you which side you will take in tn
!, coming contest? Surely not. Rally, ther
with us in our great moral warfare, and wit
the advocates of Constitutional Reform, an