Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-11-14
THE CONSUL AT HAVANA


Havana, is one of the most contemtible acts q
! Mr.. Fillmore's contemplate administration
! Mr.. Owen undoubtedly did not do what an Amer
| lean Consul ought to have done in behalf ofhi
| unfortunate, though not gulltless coantrymen
doomed to sharp and sudden death in the cit,
where he alone represented their nation. II,
stood aloof with culpable Indifference while fft,
Americans were, put to death in a foreign land
when, if he could not have averted their fate. h
could at least have rendered them all and com
fort in their last extremity. But len i mot be for
gotten that Mr.. Owen acted cub strict c]nf0rn,
ity to his instructions from the Government |
is the President who should be held responsible
for his conduct. And vet that very President
in obedience to popular cIamor, and 10 FilibuSte,
Indignation, has dismissed him with disgrace
from his office, simply far carrying ont has o1ct
instructions. What could be more cowardlv arc
contemplate
And who has been appointed in his place p.
A Southerner, of course, for the consulate at
Havana is too important to be intrusicd to any
one not a STAKEHOLDER. Mr. Owen was Geor.
gan. General Campbell who proceeded him,
was Il South Caroinian by birth, and citizen
ofAabama by residence. The Cousu appoint
ed in place of MIR. Owen is Judge Snarkry 0!
Mississippi, who, before the Compromise meas
ures were passed, was a Secessionist, and at1er-
,cardS became "Unionst;' Verify he hath his
reward. The Cleveland True Democrat thus
describes him. Read it, Free .SQlcrs. and BE-
hold the man whom Mr.. Fillmore has sent to
represent the nation at Havana Boston COM
m01itcoaYh
Judge Sharkey is learned man. He is alike
popular and able, aud holds the public opinion of
Mississippi, as much under his control as any
tE.r in hnt Al,
inct of Human Rights, or whatevertouches them
he is cold as the marble, and as unrelen;ing in
his purpose to shackle and keep shackccd, the
dowulrodcn as he is fixed in hi. cndeayor to up
hold "hI~ caste, and every policy which will give
il strength at the South and IN the Nation. Mr.
Calhoun was not more iron-wlcd than he, in
these respects; and set and as was the Carroll
man. he was not as merCl!esS as is the Mosissip-
plan.
The Courts of Mississippi like the Courts of all
the Slave States, had held Slavery to be found
ed in wrong and maintained without exec ption.
the old civil rule "oncc free, always free" Judge
Sharkey, the Chlct Justice of the high Court of
Errors and Appeals OF that State, set himself to
work, deliberately, to change this common orin-
ion and give new legal maxim to the South
more in consonanCe with Savcholdinr interests.
An act of the Legislature of Mississippi was
passed for the purpose, and mainly, We believe
through his ln-trumontaHty, which forLds in
that Commonwealth the emancipation of slave
Soon after the passage of this act Of the Miss
Ssippl Legislature, a case came before the learn
ed and hunaHe SmAEKEY, Chirf Justice of the
High Court of Eros and Appeals in the State
OF N Mississippi, the details OF which, in the day OF
il, made the very blood of generous shareholders
run cold with horror. The story, "outsde" OF
the court was thus told.
Elisha BraZPa!le, u planter Of Jefferson coun
Y, taken sick, and As he lay oppressed with
Il IoathCSome disease, slave ct his bright mul-
latto qHadroon, nursed him, and as vas be-
lieved, through her nursing, saved him from
death. He was man of feeling. He did noi
forget her kindness, and soon alter bore her to
this State, Ohiol and here educated her Her
progress was rapid, and. when he visited her a.
gain he determined to make her his wiie. lie
made, or caused to be made, deed OF emauci-
patton, and had it recorded, both in OHIO and in
the State of Mississippi. Lawyers iii both States
said she was saic-tree-and no power in the
South could touch her or her offspring. aud more
especially, as the barbarous statute was passed
after BraZealle had set her free
AIR. Brazeale returned to Mississippi and had
r a son. But after sr"e years he slcken-
IA died LEAVING NIil, in which he recitcd
.cd of an,o.tipation, declared his intention
L, and devise all of his properly to his
eknowlcdged him in the will to br such.
Be poor and distant relation in North Car
whom he did moi know, and lor whom he
did not care) hearing OF his death, came on to
Mississippi and claimed the properly, thus de-
vseI to his son. They instituted suit tor its re-
covery, and the case (>ee il reported in Towards
Mississippi Reports, , vol. f. &37) came before
Judge Sharkey. our now Consul to Havana
decided H. and in that decision DECLARED TIE
ACT OF EMANCIPATION IAN OFFENCE AGAINST
MORALITY, PERNICIoUS AND DETEsTAELE As AN
EXAM LIE" SET ASIDE THE WILL. GAVE THE
PROPERTY Of BRAZEALLE To HI, DISTANT RE-
LATIoNs. AND MADE HIS OWN son, AND HIS WIFE,
THAT son ; MOTHER, THEIR sLoVEs
We quote part of his decision
The state of the case shows conclusvely
that the contract had origin in an offence against
morality, pornlcious and detcStablc as an example
Bat above all, it seems to have been planned and
executed with fixed design to eyade the rigor
Of the laws of this State
The acts of the party in going TO Ohio with
the slaves and there executing the deed, and his
immediate return with them TO this State, point
with unerring certainty to his purpose and object.
The laws of this State cannot BE- thus deraud-
ed Of their operation by one Of her own ci'i-
ZenS
The consequence is, thatthe negroes, John Mon
roe, and his mother, still slaves, and part OF
th" estate of Elisha BrozeaIle.
Joan Monroe being "a Save, cannottake the prop
erty devised and apprchond Il Is equally
clear, that It cannot DE heii III trust tor him
Ii We reach The records, we shall lind III them
no more damuable Inhuuanlty, nor such lnhn-
manity, in any tyrants courts ia all chrls'enaom.
There is nothing like IT, arbarous as Is the Slave
Code, IN all the slave South. Aud vet the man
whose position and power enables hm thus 10
crush the free, with one fell swoop To con>lgn
mother and son into perpetual slavery, against
every well known principle ct law; and under
circumstances which should shock every sense
OF justice or feeling. where such sense IS at ali
a'iye-this Chief Justice of the High Count Of
Errors and Appeals of the State of Mississippi,
Mr.. Sharkey, is appointed BY Willard Fillmore,
10 tbe important postof Consul q Hir4a4.
San ArFAIR-BEwARE OF TTyPAYEIyG -
the l7gh inst, at Ouumnwa, in Iowa, sad ~
mination was given 10 what was intended a
customary pastime at a wedding party. \ Mr.
Ralston and Miss Woods had been just married
when party of CaJhumpians, with horns, bells
and other instruments used by charIvarl>ts, sur
rounded the house where the wedding party was
assembled and commenced their Aldtous sounds
ofreyeiry The bridegroom and MS father came
out and commenced throwing stones al the char
ivaris's when some one outside discharged a
gun, the contents Of which shot Mr. Ralston 10