Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-24
Jerry PHINNEY-

Of the kidnsppers OF Jerry Phinney, has been
adverse to the demand. The court commenced
an investigation of the case on the 10th inst,
and gave its decision on the l2th. Evidence
was introduced to show that Phinney was the
slave OF Mrs. Long, and that he had been Ia
a person to whom she had hired him. Charles
S. Morehead, the council Of Forbes and Ar
mitige, contended that as Phinney was a
slave, and as his clients were armed with
proper authority for his arrest, they had been
guilty Of no Illegal act in e%ffecting it. VIM.
Johnston, on behalf Of the State Of Ohio, ar.
gued that although Phinney had been a slave,
yet as he had been hired 10 AIlgair, and by
him taken into Chic, he did not therefore es-
cape from his mistress, he having been freed
by the act of his proprietor in bringing him
to Ohio; that Forbes and Armitage having
taken him in violation Of law, were kidnap-
pcrs, and Should be delivered up to the au-
| thorities ofthis State.
Judge Brown decided that as Phinney was
taken 10 Ohio by Allgair, without the consent
or knowledge of his mistress, he still re.
manned her property, and that VIXEN he after
wards left Kentucky, he left as an escaping
slave. The Judge therefore directed that the
Sheriff certify TO the Governor Of Kentucky,
that the circumstances Of the case did not jug
tify the issuing Of warrant, for the delivery Of
Eorboe ,nJ AraiV.ro m Tho onopf af Obto
Who anticipated a different result! Not
those who are acquainted with the history of
an,i-slavery effort--not those who have be-
held the might of the slave power, and wit
messed its many triumphs-whc have seen it
trampling under foot every principle of JUS
tice, dashing to pieces the rights Of the white,
as we'll as those Of the colored man. 1t takes
a vast deal of schooling TO teach the North
that it is utterly hopeless for her to expect
anything but injury and insult at the hands
of the South, so long as she dares advocate a
single principle of freedom, or utter the lowest
whisper against the "peculiar institution"
But the dullest scholar will learn in time; and
we have hope that after a few more northern
citizens have been murdered, a few more inn
prisoned and branded, q few more scores Of
them kidnapped, and the various other out
RACES to which northerners have been subject
ed repeated a few more times, she will be-
come bold enough to ask, What means
these things :"
In relation to Jerry Phinney, it is true that
Kentuckians originated the plot which result
ed in a successful attempt to kidnap him, but
the citizens Of Ohio furnished the facilities,
and invited the outrage, not in his case alone,
but In that of every one upon whom the
Black Laws operate. Let the guilt be placed
where it belongs; let the people Of Ohio be
made t, feel that if men can be stolen from
their soil with IMMUNITY, 1t is because they
tsiN il 10 be so.
There was nothing connected with the ex-
animation Of this case before the Ky. court,
that was more despicable than the fulsome
eulogy pronounced by Johnston upon the peo-
pie of Ky. Here is a single sentence which
will give an idea of the cringing, fawning
spirit of this representative of Ohio:
"He came here on the present occasion,
feeling a strong and confident assurance, that
no where on earth wo uld the ashes of the
d cad or the rights of the living be more sa'
credly respected, or more conscientiously pre-
served, than on the soil and in the courts o
Kentucky"
If Johnston really believes what he said
we would advise him 10 never again set foo
in Ohio, but spend the remainder of his day
in that State where no Committee of sixty
ever violates the freedom Of the press, where
no courts ever justify mobocracy, and wher
the rights of her slaves are "sacredly re
spected and conscientiously preserved
Here is another sentence which has conside
rable manifestation of vanity in it.
"He would eel it a duty, which he woul'
execute with the l~iveliest pleasure, to tel
: them (the Ohio authorilies) that he had dis
cussed the subject of slavery in the capito
Of Kentucky, with boldness and safety, sui
, rounded by Shareholders who treated hin
. with tho utmost consideration and respect.
r He discuss the subject of slavery in a slave
holding State! We don't believe he dare d
it at home, say nothing of Kentucky.
PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE.
The United States Gazette gives the fol
lowing account of the manner-i in which ce,
tain candidates for Eldership and Deaconshi