New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-23

TIE RECENT SLAVE CAsE.-The card Of Mr..
VIM. Parker, the agent who reclaimed Henry
Long, published in the Richmond papers, and re-
published in NewYork.) contains the following
paragraph;
"The opposition and delay caused by The generous
swearing OF Mr. jay and certain OF his dementeS coatu
tors should perhaps rather excite our pity Than our ndg
nation, evncDg as does the Intensity OF Their moral
blindness and stupidity Mr. White, Ills believed tooA no
part In this foul proceeding"
AS Mr.. Parker processes 10 speak from personal
knowledge and makes this statement under bis
own signature, and is certified by one of the Rich
m0nd editors 10 be a respectable person, IL may
be proper 10 correct one two of its errors Ia fact
Mr. Jay was not witness in the case, nor made
any affidavit in the progress OF 1t, nor did any
swearing generous" or otherwise. The writs
of kGbeGs corpus were obtained for the purpose OF
testing the oonstitutonAlity of the law, and the
validity OF the claimant proceedings before Mr..
Hall Those proceedings, the counsel for the de
tense early advised the claimant 20 be invalid,
and as be virtually admitted the fact after eight
days had elapsed by disseminating the suit before
MIR. Hail, and Recommending 1t before Judge Jud-
son, that delay is properly attributable 70 his orig
inal mistake and his hardness in correcting it.
Before Judge Judson, the proceedings were de-
lSyed not by the defense, but by the Judges Ill
ness, and the witnesses who appeared for Long,
and testified TO having known him in New York,
evidently swore 10 the best of their knowledge
and belief which in the case Of one of them, was
Longs possession. bearing date IN January 2
ls4s. Ii their mistake admitting them to have
been mistaken in regardto the time proved the
intensity of their morsl blindness and stupidity
the same remark would be equally applicable to
DR. Parker, who in his affidavit before Mr.. Hall
swore that Long escaped about the month Of
January, ls4s, and in the affidavit for the second
warrant swore that he escaped in December, ls4S
In this City and StSte, where the counsel for the
defense are known a. imputation Of foul proceed.
ing on their part. would sufficiently refute itself
To persons at a distance ready TO believe any
Islander against men, bold enough TO defend an al.
legged fugitive, in the face Of an excited public
opinion, il may be well to say that the defense
was in all respects conducted with perfect fair
ness and courtesy and that the Judge, in remand
ing the fugitive, bore testimony 20 the order and
propriety which bad marked the conduct of all
persons attending the Court, including the colored
friends Of Long and when DR.. Parker, to secure
the services of the Marshal at the expense of the
Treasury Of the United States, in returning TO
Richmond, made an affidavit that there was rea-
son 10 believe that Long would be rescued by
force before be could be carried beyond the limits
OF this State the Judge voluntarily declared bis
entire concurrence in the opinion expressed by
M. jay that nothing had occurred in the course
OF the trlai or the behavior ofthe people to war
shtsaen oeheL Evening Post.