The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-12-12

pected thai the alleged fugityes would be con-
| fined in jssl until they should have time TO pro-
cure proof Of their freedom if any such proof
existed
This morning took m the Pitsllvg Morning
Pow, and in the telegraph news from Louisville
appeared the following:
"LouISvLrLE NoremLT 20
"The three fugitive slaves arrested and con-
! fined at New Albany, were brought to this city
by the United State Marshal for Indiana, and
delivered up 10 their owner, citizen Of Arkan-
sas. The thing was done very secretly. A law
yer was consulted TO examine the owners papers,
who considered the title good, and trial on the
part Of the slaves useless. Gentlemen who saw
them say the mother and grandson are perfectly
white, and the mother has little Indian blood in
herr
| This, then, is the dsaoRRiem of this case under
the operation of law which Southern men say
must be neither repealed nor modified except upon
the condition of a dissolution of the Union.
do not know that | can add any comments,
giving additional force to the feelings that must
arise in every manly bosom upon the perussl Of
the foregoing statement; if | do, they will be
simple additional fGos, tending to show what is
| really involved in the statement
| 1. The statement Of the case is made up from
| Southern testimony. the two FIRST paragraphs
being cut from tie Weekly I.ouisville Ion rnal of
the Goth Of November, and the third from a tele-
graphic despatch from the place where the fugi
tves were given up there is therefore no taiat
| Of dbOi9ioNDm' in the statement Of facts
2 Every one must that the practical value
Of the writ Of k05s0S corpus and the trial by jury
is totally destroyed by the operation Of this law
1t is folly to talk about the fugitives suing for
their freedom in Arkansas. con the side of the
oppressor there is powerp lie can, when the
shackes are once around their limbs send the
grandmother TO Louisiana the mother to Geor-
gia, and the child TO South Carolina. If they
then should once open their mouths about their
rights TO freedom" what shall restrain the
owner from using sufficient punishment to teach
them their place. He has EIGHS to sp'Sy th.,B
nd lbiWm 10 accomplish has object or to confue
them where he may choose II not allowed time
or opportunity TO procure evidence in free State,
lt!1" +'%'on. eryseq. Ted 80 y al9ys St. =
3. These persons were consigned to hopeless
slavery entirely by er parte evidence Their
being claimed as slaves, and being further charged
with the crime of having Il minute but utterly i'm
perceptible trace Of African blood in their veins,
incapacitated them from giving evidence as against
a white man. The affidavit of the master is proof
sufficient TO consign the alleged fugitiyes to sla-
very IL they had been charged with murder,
they would have a right to trial by jury but
being charged as "fuguiues from slauery" they are
without trial consigned to worse punishment
than that which attaches to the crime Of murder
for slavery involves not only the degradation and
suffering of the present generation, but all that
may come after them.
A. These persons were either entitled to their
freedom or they were slaves. If the first suppo-
sition be true, the transaction is disgrace to the
land we live in. II the second it shows the ex-
qusite perfection to which practical amagama-
tion is carried in some Of the Southern States.
| Facts like this should make Southerner blush
whenever the word amalgamation is used as an
argument against the Anti-Slavery men of the
| free States
Moreover, these white slaves are compelled to
| live in q state of fornication and concubinage Jy
lar, or marry some one of well-dehned negro
blood, except they can find other slaves as white
az themselves These are the only three alterna-
tives left to them, upon the superstition that they
are subject TO the usual passions OF humanity.
g. These facts are published in the two Wing
presses in Louisville without word of comment,
| either for or against the transaction The Demo-
cratic paper had two heartless paragraphs, show
ing decided sympathy with the claimant, but not
a word for the alleged fugitives.
AMERICAN CITIZEN.