Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-02
Another National Victim.

| Another human being has been branded as
chattel by U. S. Commissioner, Ingraham, of
Philadelphia, and sent by national agent and
ct tho national expense to a Baltimore jail, to
await purchaser from the southern market.
The proceedings in the case were lawyer-like,
and without flaw, and the evidence direct and
undcniablc and the man was given up. Moth
ing could save him. We have hero good ex-
hibition of the only protection government af-
fords to personal freedom.
The government permits the right of every
human being to liberty, to be called into ques-
lion, and the only hope Of escape is through
some flaw in the indictment, some legal inform
atty. The republic Of New Granada have no.
bly, declared that human beings claimed as
slaves are free, not only on their own soil, but
also on that of their ncighbors, the Pcruvians,
Z" because they are o,B' .tcliow beings" A most
valid reason, but one that this nation denies.
She has prescribed the forms by which immor-
tai mon may be transmitted to merchandise, and
the only preventive a legal tcchnicality. No
cry of fcitizenship-no plea of justice or human
ity, is of any avail.
The report Of the case, says the Pcnnsylva-
MIA Freeman, was furnished or the daily pa
pcrs, by Mr.. Webb, and may be relied upon as
substantially correct. We give the report allu-
ded to below.
TUESDAY, July %.
U. s. CoMmssIoNER's OrFIcE.-Beiore
Commissioner Edward ID. lngraham.-Yes-
icrday afternoon, n coored man named
-
years of age, was brought from the Lnncas-
ter county Jail, where he had been serving
ont a sentence of three months for larceny,
in the custody af Constable John Agen, of
Third Ward, Southwark. lie is said to be-
long to VIM. NJ. Risteau, of Baltimore, Md,
from whom it is alleged be absconded a
year ago last June. Before his conviction
for larceny had been residing at Column
bia, Pa. The master obtained information
of his conviction, and on Saturday night last
in company with constable AgeI, who bad
n warrant for the arrest of the fugitive grant
ed by Commissioner Ingraham, proceeded
to Lancaster. The term of Imprisonment of
the alleged fugitive expired on Saturday night,
at IL o'clock. A few minutes before that
hour, the master and constable Agen went
TO the jail and paid the fine and cost of
court in the suit and at ~ o'clock arrested
the slave in the prison, and in the morning
started for Philadelphia, where the arrived
at about o'clock yesterday afternoon. A
committee of the Abolition Society were in
waiting at the Office of A. T.. Roberts U. S.
Marshal, having probably obtained intelli-
gence by telegraph from Lancaster, of the
arrest. This committee is the most perse-
vering set of men we have ever met with,
aud they never leave any thing undone to
secure the liberty of Il fugitive slave. Be-
fore the hour of 4 o'clock arrived, which was
fixed for hearing, this committee had OBJ
tained habeas corpus from Judge Grier, of
the w. S. Circuit Court, TO have the body of
the alleged slave before him at 10 O'clock
this morning. The Commissioner remarked
that the habeas corpus did not act as a SUI
| perscdeas, and that he was prepared to hear
the case; but as the counsel had left the
room with the impression that the case
would not be heard until this morning, the
case was postponed. The slave was kept
in the marshaPs Office all night
At 10 clock this morning, the hearing OF
the habeas corpus was had before Judge
Grier. ID. p. Brown and Il. p. Kane apear-
ed for the allcgad fugitive, and II. NJ. Lee and
Bennett for the master.
X. NJ. Lee presented TO the Court the re-
turns of Marshal Roberts, stating the all-
thorty upon which he held the prisoner,
and asked to he permitted to make out his
case before the Commissioner, with a view
of his being given into the custody of his
| master.
Judge Grier said that he had issued the
babeas corpus merely for the purpose of as
certaining whether the warrant under which
the fugitive was held was legal in its char
acter. 1t was not in the nature of Il certi-
orari, to remove the proceedings from an
| other body competent 10 give hearing, nor
would he allow himself 10 be made com
| nittng magistrate at the whm and caprice
Of every body.
ID. p. Brown, for the prisoner contended
that the habeas corpus superseded the war
rant of the Commissioner, but was willing,
if the Judge thought otherwise, TO withdraw
the habeas corpus without argument, pre-
fcrring 10 have decision OH point so i'm
| portamt, at some othe time when there should
be more leisure for deiberation.
Mr.. Lee thought il would be wrong TO with
draw the case from the Commissioner, as it
would be casting an impuintion upon him.
lie asksd, therefore that the prisoner be re-
manded to the custody of the Marshal with
view of his being heard before the Commits
sioner.
MIR. Brown replied, that to settle the matter
he would withdraw the hNbeas corpus.
Judge Grier said, that the prisoner had
never been taken out of the hands of the
Commissioner, his purpose in granting the
writ of habeas corpus being merely for the
purpose of examining its validity. lie then
endorsed the writ, REMINDING the prisoner
to the custody of the Marshal, the habeas
corpus having been Withdrawn, and further
proceedings waived under it,
Commissioner Ingraham then took his seat
to hear the case.
Mr. Lee offered the proceedings had be-
fore Judge Heath, Of Baltimore county, Nd,
which, after some conversation between
counsel, was heard. They set forth that the