Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-20
Slavery in Connecticut.
F,o6, ar Me- Hapeu Repia,.r

Slavery was "legalizel" in thi$Siate until the
year 1913! and within the me Gnry0 the present
generation slaves have 4bccn publicly sold nj the
whipping post III ths;yery cty--w ihin few rods
only Of Bev. DR.. Bacon's pulpit tits a.favorlte
saying OF the AbolitionistS that slavery can only
exist by "positve law" Slavery did exist nnvl,g
the people OF Connecticut long before II was 10 !
"ognsed BY ler "poSitivc law and also il died
o 1t long before her "posiivc law'' Aecnrei il
illegal. The State Of Cannccti ncntr cmanci-
pnted person born in Stuucry. She provided, il is
true, that alter a lutnre PERIOD he children or
slave parents should become free OH a,tivirg at
the age OF twenty-five yenrs--bmt all tho. born
before thatr riod, and tlus raised or acquir ed 10y
their masters, upon the faith Of her slave laws,
she refused TO elancipatc. And her laws even
forbade the masters 10 einanc,pate item, without
the consent of the town authorities. TheveIy acl
provlding for this prospective emancipation, recog
nlZed The .trghts" OF the owner and the .spuLiic
safety, the considerations why it was expedi-
enl TO Keep the Institution 'legalized" and pre-
vents us immaculate abolition. And SO il happened
that we find as late even as the census Of 1870 n
| number OF slaves, returned among the tnhabi-
lants OF Connecticut. And they irere slaves -
legalized slaYes-human" chattes," il you please,
WHO were liable 10 be levied upon and sold at the
pest. Where was all this viItuous Indignation al
"lcgnllzed slavery then? Whc.e then these puI-
PIT pohilclans, who are now upon the eve OF an
election seeking 10 excite the people OF Connect-
eutlnlo a frantic fury, because the South will not
10 what This Christian people Of Connecticut never
1id-abolish and destroy The mutual rights which
exist between The master aud slave. X
| We say that slavery was ..lega lied IN this State
until the year 1913; but the .hrgher law'' which
Daniel Webster spoke'of rs better than any Will
mot rroriso. in Utah and New NJ xico, aud which
all southern statesmen admit will forbid slavery
ever being egalized in Nebraska, had practical Ivy
abolished as general institution. II had ceased
10 be profitable. We. used it until we had worn
it clear out, and then became terrible anti slavery
men, an are now expected 10 so off into pl.iIan-
throplc Mysteries at the bare suspicion of any one
else being allowed 10 tolerate the institution.
But slavery not only existed upon the statute
book as LEI al relation until lS49, but within
thirty years It has existed in this very city vi New
Haven, as fact, and in its most striking form.-
| we have in our possession the documents con.
nected with the sale, on execution, Of two female
slaves (mother and lau. hteT,) at the sign post in
this city, by the constable OF the city, in the year
| 1928.
The New York Tribune is in the habit of re-
CALLING lis readers with exaggerated accounts oil
slave sales at the South. We give copy OF The
othcer's return on the execution referred 10, lha,
our superllne philanthropsts in this region may
see how long it is since they have become ..su
much hollier than those putIicans'' ut the South.
The execution dire cts the officer 10 mai Ike his levy
upon the goods and chattles'' of the defendant
and The Endorsement reads as follows:--