Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-06-09
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The Trainer Case.

Inc 1EaAANE OASc'
On Tuesday, 9Th inst, the OF the child Jane
Trainer, was brought before Judge Barculo Of New
York, On motion for an injunction to restrain the
harriet, Rose Cooper Porter, from taking the chhd
out the State, and to show cause why she should
not deliver her to her father.
Judge Barcuo expressed his surprise that the
child had not been delivered up to her father on the
habeas corpus, and he wondered also that the father
or his friends did not take the child in presence Of
Jadge Duer.
The circumstances attending this Trainer case
have been the subject Of something than sur
prise persons less versed in the techncalties oil
law than Judge Barculo. They have been the sub
ject Of deep humiliation and burning Indignation
The humiliation has been caused by the idea that
Judge in free State could be found who would re-
fuse to deliver young gnl from the hands Of a no.
torous into the custody OF her own father
And the indignation has been produced by the fact
that Judge Duer prostituted the laws Of New York,
to sustain prostitute in the abduction Of a girl from
her natural guardian and pvotecior-her father.
In our 4ih of July orations, talk most eloquent
y Of the blessings Of law, which say lifts its
protecting shield over the serene brow of liberty
Law is blessing, and the gene,al opinion Of
kind is favorable to the idea that it is. But il laws
were TO be generally administered as Judge Duer
has applied the law of New York, in the Trainer
case, there would soon be a revolution in the public
sentiment in regard to the matter
A gill is taken from her father by woman Of
sy virtue, and is carried to New York roaae for
California. The father pursues the hag and over
takes her with his child in New York. He brings
her on a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Duer,
and asks him in the name of the laws of New York
to compel the harot TO restore to him his child
Judge Duer refuses to do so. He sustains the kid.
mapping srumpe he rejects the suit Of the asoniz.
ed father. The laws Of nature, of justice, and what
is technically called civil law, all repudiated by
Judge Duer. He turned codly away from the par
ent, and blandly informed the procuress that she
could keep the girl.
1t would, perhaps, be difficult for foreigner to
understand what motive the potent, grave and CON
servatiye judge had for his procedure in this case
bur who are well instructed in all the modes Of
Union saving, there is no difficulty in the matter
whatever. The harIot is a stakeholder; the father
is a OF color To compel a member OF the ON
nipoent aristocracy Of the South, albeit she is no
more virluous than Queen Chrlsiana Of Spain, to
deliver up girl to coored man, even though that
man is her father, would shake the foundations of
the Union and make universal hunkerdom qnake.-
The laws of nature, the laws OF the God of nature
and all other laws, civil and moral, have poor
chance to be respected when they come into COLI
sion with slavery, and when bunker has the pow
er to decide between them. We hope for the honor
of New York that Judge Barcuo viii restore the
child to her father, and partially wipe out the
disgrace entaed upon it by Judge Duer.