Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-24

stated, in his peculiarly polite manner, on the part
Of his friends, that they only maize any question of
lthe case, under the supposiiion that the girl would
prefer to 60 with her acquaintance to see her
mother and friends in Virginia but as she had
come into court and expressed her desire to remain,
they did not insist upon offering any obstruction
to her freedom.
"a great crowd OF colored men and women were
in attendance at the Court-Room, during the PEN
dcncy of the case, as might be expected; and the
freed girl seemed much astonished ut the greetings
she met, and the congratulations she received on
attaining the estate of a free woman.
W rejoice always at the rescue of q human
being from the prison-bousc of bondage. We re-
rejoice that in this case it was made to appear that
the time has come when no prctenco will be set up
in behalf Of the oppressor, in this class Of cases.
We trust, also. the precedent will do good, in MS
suriny timid Supreme Judges, and all others who
are afraid TO act for hecdom; for we will do
none tho injustice to believe that they can be in
different in q question of Freedom or Slavery"
The TiNID JrDoE-WBo 10 HE.-Good news we
have from Columbus, of the release of one slave
woman. The Rec. Mr.. Dennison, we dare say, will
give no thanks for tho event. Doubtless he will
deem it Il most unchristian act for this girl to for
sake her charge to secure her own freedom. But
the 'timid Supreme Judge" who would not issue
a writ of habeas corpus to release this young wo.
man from slavery, and to yindicatc the outraged
laws of his State, for which he is set as the special
defender-who lie he? Why did not the Culum.
bian give the name of the man so recreant to his
duty, to his State and to Freedom7 Is it possible
it can be Judge Swan. who was elected last fall
us the especial champion of freedom, ard who az
to rescue the Ohio judiciary fom the grasp of sla.
very? Whoever he is, he should be known.
Later accounts state that the Reverend Dennison,
the claimant of the girl, after her release arrived
in Columbus and held an interview with his late
chattel at the house of her guardian. Tho State
Journal says of the Interview:
"Mr. Dennison told the girl that he had conc
for the purpose of taking her home with him il
she wished to return but MS she was in u free
State, she had the liberty of going or remaining
at hcI option. The girl, after delibcrating about a
minute. said she should prefer remaining in a free
State. rather than return to Slavery. Mr.. Denui
son bade her good bye-shOok hands with her and
parted. evidently much grieved at the loss of a ia
vorite servant. The girl is now in the employ o.
DF. COul'eI, at whose mouse sic Will uUuDtCSS meC
with the kindcst treatment"
AT Cincinnati, also, two casos of q similar char
acter were tried on the 10th inst, one before Judg,
Carter, of the Court Of Common Pleas, and n sec
ond before Judges Spencer and Storcr Of the Su
perior Court. The former was the case of a girl sale
to be detained MS y slave by John Johnson, at til,
Walnut-St. House. Upon the return Of the writ anC
the production of the girl it was asccrtained by hcl
answers to tho Undergraduates Of the Court
that tho application was made without her knowl
edge and consent, and upon her expressing n wisI
to go with her master, she was permitted SO to do
and the writ dismissed. She was a bright mulat
to, ahont twelve years old, and Mr.. Johnson, will
her, was on his way from Natchez to California
where he said he intended she should be free i
size desired it.
In the second case, tho writ of HaJeds Corpu
was issued on the petition of Henry B.. Blackwell
in favor of two mon, Alfred and Emanuel. VIII,
were claimed as slaves by Baldwin IIarle. IL
claimed that they were his slaves by the laws o
Kentucky. and that he was removing with them t
Missouri. They arrived at Cincinnati ON tn
packet Dover, and were there transferred, by walk
ing along the bank of the river. to the steamboa
Jacob Strader, from whence they were taken b.
the Sheriff.
Simon p. Chase, with Messrs. Walker, Jollift
$ and Judge Stallo, appeared TO defend the two co
ored men and Messrs. Sullivan and Case wer
4 the advocates of the slave claimant. They COT
c tended that the Ohio river was q public highway
e subject to the concurrent jurisdiction of the State
t upon its borders; that the mutual right to the us
and navigation of the river, by the citizens Of tn
II several States, carried with it the right to the us
If of the shores of the river for purposes incident
. navigation, and to possess and control their slave
n while so navigating the river, and making use
h its banks solely and lesitimately in the course
such navigation, and urged that as we'll upon pri,
# ciples of comfy between States, as upon rights
/. navigation, that the RESI- ondent was entitled
make such use as he had done of the Ohio shor
without f~orfeiting the right of property in the n
groes.
Judge Stallo, on the part Of the %relator, followe
f. Mr.. Sullivan, and insisted that rs by tho law
h Ohio slavery could not exist, any voluntary brin
= ing of a slave by his master into Ohio. worked h
emancipation. AS To tho doctrine of the right
transit and of navigation, and the use Of the banl
% Of navisable streams, he insisted that its only u,
was to allow to citizens of other States such us
and the enjoyment of such rights in Ohio, as IL
% citizens of Ohio themselves enjoyed. This do
trine did not permit citizens of other States
"a bring with them and exercise rights inimical al
contrary to the laws of Ohio.
The case was still further argued on Friday, ar
IS until five o'clock on Saturday. when Judge Stor
, ordered that the colored men should be kept. by ii
Sheriff in some safe and comfortable place Of CO
1. f%n"ment, but not with criminals in Jail, until We
nesday, when he would deliver his written decisi,
in the case.
- KIDNAPPERS IN PHILADELPHIA.
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