Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-10

compact which binds his confederacy ,o7e,h.
cr. II she has stipulated ANYTHING in tta,
compact which limits her Otherwise plenary
power in regard TO the passage Of such y law
as tho act Of 1917. then Of course the Act Of
Assembly must yield 10 the aa-
thorily OF the Constitution of the Cnited
States. This RESTRAINT on the "plenaty author.
iy Of the State. il it exists at all, is 10 be
found in the third Section of the fourth Ar
ticle oi that instrument. which declares that
. no person held to service or labor in une
State, under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law OF
regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on
claiu. of the party to whom such service or
labor shall be due"
1t seems to me difficult to argue that this
section, which is a mere stimulation To sur.
render iugiiives from labor escaping from
Their owners in one State into another, has
any relevancy TO the right of a State 10 de-
clare iTee' slaves brought Voluntarily into her
territory by the owners. Where the master
Of his own motion brought his slave into a
tree State, the operation OF whose laws he is
bound TO know, wha, ground has he to com
plain if those laws give freed ON 10 his slavel
1t was his own act which has produced
the result, and for all the legal consequences
OF course he mus, respond. Has such a state
OF things anything in common with the case,
In which the slave has against the will, and
without the agency Of his master, fled from
his service in one State, and sought shelter
and protection in another This was the
case intended TO be provided for in the third
section Of the 9Th act of the Constitution of
the United States. And, undoubtedly, Penn
s%ylvania il bound to the faithful execution OF
| ihIa az of all ntbor nhliratinpa ;p,,oeoJ an
herself in becoming a party to the National
Union.
But when Pennsylvania stipulated with
her sister States to deliver up fugitives from
other States, and seeking shelter in her terri.
tories, she certainly never meant to deprive
herself OF the right pertaining TO every indie
pendent sovereignty 10 forbid the voluntary
inlrod uction of slaves into her territories by
their owners, under the penalty Of their be-
ing Immediately declared free. Such a re-
nunciaiion of her natural and inherent author
lily, as an independent State, can neither be
inferred from the letter nor spirit of the only
article of the national constitution relating to
the subject.
The case and principle seems clear. The
petitioner has been brought up by his master
into this State, where he has served him fol
some time. BY being thus brough, volunta'
rily into the State, the petitioner became ipsc
facto free. The right OF sojourners to retaiI
: their slaves for six months, given by the &C
. of 1850, having been expressly repealed b,
the act Of l947, the case stands on the com
mon law, and the general provisions 9th
. act of 1880, having been expressly repealed
by the act of lS47, which gives freedom 10
slave voluntarily brought by his master from
another State into this commonwealth.
The Court having heard the return and III.
a argument in the case, adjudged that Lewis
Pierce is at liberty to go where he p~leaSes.
SHocKING.-The Paris correspondent o
: the Boston Chronotype, says that Nj. Passy
> of Martinique, a cOiored man, has taken hi:
q seat in the French National Assembly,
Should not the American Government notice
this evident outrage upon our tastes anc
manners, and slur upon our Justice and rell'
gion, and demand instant reparatlon by The
French Republic! II is as bad as a direc
assertion that they know better the law o
5 nature, and what constitutes true Christian
Z ty and republicauism, and polite manners
$ than ourselves. This comes OF French In
fidelity and Catholicism, and Il cir old mo
e narchical notions. They need %eittlera cours
J. Of lectures from some Protestant divine, OF
"morals and Manners or such a drubbin!
q as we have given the Mexicans, to teacl
d them that we are not to be insulted before
the world with impunity. The Government
should despatch DR.. Dewey or Capt. Bragg
: on the mission. Or, perhaps, if the chWeI
I, at home can spare both, they should both @
one with his sermon and the other wit
his "grape,''-that the needed conversion
J might be the more speedy and thorough
; Pa. freeman.