The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-11
The Slave Orc In New YORK..

We continue from the New York Journal of Com
'erce the report of the slave case in the supero,
":"a-. New FORK. The proceedings on Monday
will be to have been Of affecting character
In SUPERIOR Monday-Before Judge
PAyNE.-ln our second edition of Saturday we
reported the arrest of eight slaves belonging to Mr.
and Mrs. Lennon, of Virginia, who were stopped
in this city through the fundamentally of the Abo
litionsts, while in transitu for Texas, where their
owners were going to permanently reside. At
the request of counsel for claimants the examina.
ton of the case was adjourned to this day.
This case. stripped Of it's legal technicalites pre-
sens one Of extreme hardship to the owners of the
slaves. Their ownership is not denied. And il
| also appears that these slaves, consisting Of two
| women of adult age, lad sixteen or seventeen
years old and five children, of from one to four
years old, are almost the sole and only property
the claimants possess. $50.
Mr.. Lennon :s past the middle age of life, and
his dress and appearance bespeak him to be man
who has been and | still struggling with poverty.
His wife, were was she dressed in fashionable at
tire would be considered splendid woman, also
bears in her dress the same marks Of comparative
poverty as does her husband, but not in her man.
ners, which are every way lady like.
AZ neither Of them seemed TO have acquired
those "higher law notions that property which
they obtained honestly and honorably, according
to the laws of the State in which they lived, could
be legally pounced upon and taken from them
while conveying it from one part OF the United
States to another, they naturally feel indignant at
what seems to them utter breach of the nation
a compact. And their indignation is rendered
still more keen and sensitive by the prospect of ut
ter and extreme poverty which the loss Of this pro-
perty must entail upon them Mr.. Lennon, when
informed Of the possible if not probable loss of his
slaves, cried like n child, and his affliction So
wrought upon the good feelings of Mr.. Culver, a
thorough aboli'ienist and counsel for the slaves.
that, in order to make compromise between what
he considered the slaves rights and the utter desti
tuition which their being ct at liberty must bring
upon the owners he askcd counsel for the claimant
,L,t Al. a
the claimants did not. however feel authorized to
enter into any stipulation at this 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 indi.
cative OF mother to her children than mistress to
her slaves, thus addressed them: "Have ever i'll.
treated you? Have you not drank from the same
cup, and eat from the same bowl with myself?
Have not taken the came of your children as
If they were my own? Did not give up all that
possessed in my native land, in order that you and
might 60 to another where we could be more
comfortable and happy? Did you ever refuse to
come along with me until you were prompted to
do so3' ....
One Of the colored women affected by the
address of her mistress that the tears rolled down
her cheeks and the other colored woman com.
menced making reply, when white and black,
Abolitonists in the same breath, told her to make
no answer.
When the judge came into court, counsel for the
claimants asked for adjournment until this day,
on Tue ground tDat IL WAS q case winch snOuId De
fully investigated; and also that the short time
which interviewed from Saturday to this day did not
enable his clients to be prepared to dscuss IT, An
other counsel, Mr.. Clinton, had also been since
gagged in the case, md in order that he might have
time to examine IL, counsel moved to adjourn to
this day. Besides which, the only property his
clients had was in these slaves, and il of vital
iml ortance to them that the should be delibe-
ratsly examined before IL disposed Of. He
also wished to postpone the examination In order
TO put in an amended return.
Mr. Clinton, also Of counsel for the claimants,
said, in eeconding the motion of his associate, he
thought il proper TO remark that the case only in.
volved questions Of law, and none of fact. He had
not ns yet had an opportunity to look at the hnbeas
corpus the return to it, But from what he heard
from his associate he believed that this would
present question entirely new regarded the
law Of this State and that of the United States
He therefore thought that ample time should be
given to examine it, particularly could
suffer from IL but his clients
Counsel for the slaves, Mr.. Culver, said he wished
TO be courteous to counsel for the claimant but be
opposed even to adjournment Saturday,
because these men were illegally held in custody,
and II had been already decided in another State
that under such circumstances they should be libc
ra ted ipsanter.
The Judge said he did not consider a further adj
journment necessary, but he was DESTROYS TO give
that they might have no reason TO complain. He
would therefore adjourn the examna ton un I'll four
O'Clock day.
a GALLANT WHIo.-Thc following bet was made
few days before the "Presidential election be.
tween Wing and Democrat at Philadelphia: The
loser TO purchase saw, and carry into the chamber
of the winner, half cord Of good hickory wood;
sawing to commence at O'Clock p. m. in front
Of the house. The loser fully int nds to pay the
field Scott; and large number of his political
and personal friends will be present to encourage