Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-12-04

teftcen States Of The right to bring to New York
hat Il property in their own States even although
w., have no intention to become even temporari-
sn' :3t;geus of New York. 1t will do more to sep
20 North and South than any other event which
a. banpened since the birth of our confederation
and will open at once the gaping breach which has
L,t now with so much solicitude been closed
IA its influence will reach even beyond this, for
r. tLo citizens of a slave State, while continuing
.Lo;r allegiance to it, may be denied in one part
" tho Union the rights conferred by their own
sovereignty, recognized by the Constitution, and
Grned in spirit if not in letter by express legis-
,on Of Congress, the citizens of any State may
10" derived of any other rights when out of the
boundaries of their own State, according to the
lin or preiudice of that part of the country
Lrnuob which they may travel. One State may
~, One rioht. another another and thus split up
w. Cor faderat,on bv an infnity of little entering
wedges of pains and penalties
The New York Express speaks of it as follows
Tn :, AVE CAsE.--The voluntary introduction
- sIaves from Virginia, IN trdnSitu for Texas,
d;loloses to rs once more the antagonist elements
as n,r COMPLICATED form Of government, and the
,:as1,os and the danger under which that form
W. ,arernn,ent is always laboring. There is no
Ja,SJt If the right, ordinarily, Though Maine
u,aJo an exception in the Maine Liquor law of
a citizen of one State to transport his property
,brouoh another State; but a slave is a mixed en-
tity. part person and part property; and though
the properly part of him might be passed through
New York IN trdnSia, yet the person pant of him,
II is decided now, cannot be. The principle ad-
iudicated by Judge Payne is a very important one,
and one which, independent of the New York
statute upon the subject, might have admitted of
much doubt; but under that statute we do not see
how the case could be decided otherwise than he
decided it. The State Law undoubtedly intends
70 prohibit the introduction of slaves here under
any pretcnce, or in any form whatsoever; and this
being a voluntary introduction, from no imperious
oyerw helming necessity, it certainly comes within
the purview Of the Law.
The decision is of Importance to us on the At
hntic, but it is of more Importance on the Western
rivers, where free States as on the Ohio borders,
or slaves are constantly IN transitu from Virginia
via Cincinnati Louisville and the ports on the Hi
nois side Of the Mississippi. twas contended in
the case before us, we see, that it was a natural
course Of trade via Norfolk in the coastwise steam
crs to New York, thence to Texas; and it now I'M
doubtcdly, if we may be allowed so to speak, an
arifcialnatural course of trade that is to say, il
is the easiest way to get from Virginia to Texas
to come to New York. The Court, however de-
cdcd that under such a transit slaves thus intro
duccd become free. On the Western rivers, hun
drcds Of slaves are IN trdnSitu by the free States
and what effect such decision is likely to have
there time must determine, if the cases are made
and the decision is not reversed by any higher tri
buial.