The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-11-11
THE DAILY DISPATCH,

The SLAVE CASE IN New YoRK.-In our
paper Of Monday we published an account OF
the arrest of eight slaves belonging to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lennon, Of Virginia, who were stopped
in New York through the instrumentali,y Of the
aboIitionists, while in uansi,u for Texas. The
case having been adjourned over to Monday
the Journal Of Commerce reports II as follows:
This case, stripped of its legal technicalites,
presents one of extreme hardship 10 the owners
of the slaves Their ownership IL not d. med
And il also appears that these slaves, consist
ing of two " omen Of adult age, lad sixteen
or seventeen wears old, and five children, OF
from one 10 four years, are almost the sole and
only property the claimant possesses.
Mr.. Lennon is past the middle age OF lie,
and his dress and appearance bespeak nm 10
be a man who has been and is still struggling
with poverty. His wife, who, vas she dressed
in fashionable attire, would be considered a
splepdid woman, also bears IN her dress the
same marks Of comparative poverty as does
her husband but not in her manners, which are
very lady like.
As neither Of them seemed to have acquired
those higher law' notions tina, property
which they obtained honestly and honorabIy
according TO the laws of the State in which
they lived, could be legally bounced upon and
taken from them while conveying ii from one
part of the United States 10 another, they ma
lurally feel indignant at what seems TO them,
an utter breach Of the national compact. And
their Indignation is rendered still more Keen
and sensitive by the prospect OF utter and ex-
IRENE poverty, which the loss OF this property
FAUST entnil Upon them. MIR. Lennon, when
informed of the possible, ii not probable, loss
Of his slaves, cried like child, and his Attic
ton so wrought upon the good feelings OF Mr..
r. oh ahnliippiSt pt cnupSal for
the slaves, that, in order to make a compro-
mise between what he considered the slaves
rights, and the utter deslituton which their be-
ing set at liberty must bring upon the owners,
he asked counsel for the claimant at what
price thy would sell them. Counsel for the
claimant did not, however, feel authorised TO
enter into any stipulation at this stage OF the
case.
When the slaves were brought into court,
Mrs. Lennon went to where they were sitting,
and in tone and manner, highly excited, but
more indicative of mother 10 her children than
q mistress TO her slaves, thus addressed them
Have | ever ill-treated you Have you not
drank from the same cup, and eat from the same
bowl with myself? Have not taken the same
care of your children as if they were my own?
Did not give up all possessed in my native
land, in order that you and 1 might go TO ano
ther, where we could be more comfortable and
HdpVy biu cFCi fcluSS " dlOuS
with me, until you were prompted TO do sou
One of the coiored women was SO affected
by the address Of her mistress, that the tears
rolled down her cheeks, and the other woman
commenced making reply, when white and
black abolitionist, in the same breath, told her
10 make no answer.
When the Judge came into Court, counsel
for the claimants asked for an adjournment until
this day.
Mr.. Clinton, also of counsel for the claim
ants, said, in seconding the motion Of his asso
cia,es, he thought it proper to remark that the
case only involved questions of law, and none
ofiact.
Counsel for the slaves, Mr.. Culver, said he
wished to be courteous to counsel for claim
ant, but he was opposed even to adjournment
on Saturday, because these Ilen were illegal
ly held in custody, and it had been already
decided in another State, that under such
circumstances they should be liberated insian
ter.
The Judge said he did not consider further
adjournment necessary, but he was DESTROYS TO
give sufficient time to the respec tive parties in
order that they mi ght have no reason TO com
plain. He would therefore adjourn the exam-
patton until four o'clock to-day.