Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-10

were travelling, he was detained at Cambridge
in Guernesy County during which detention thi'
writ was issued and said boys were taken from
his custody.
W. II. Buchanan, John Furguson, and J. NJ.
Bushheld, Esqrs, we're counsel for the State and
and S. W. Whites W. II. Wagstan,and lI.J .Jewett,
Esqrs, COUNSEL for n. w. Graham, the Respon-
dent
The cause came ZIP for final hearing and dec-
sion on the 2lst Of Dec, 1854 Before the argu-
ment commenced, the counsel for Respondent
moved that the boys be brought into Court for
the purpose Of making their election to 60 with
| their masters, or remain, the decision Of which
motion was reserved ly the Judge till after the
argument of the case upon the main questions.
! All the questions involved in the case were
! fully and ably argued by Messrs Furguson and
Bushfed on behalf Of the State, and W. r.. Wag
staff and II. j. Jewett, on the part of The Re
suondent
Judge Deong, in deciding the case, held
lst. That the States of the American Union,
upon the subject of slavery, stand rs Independent
governments, each being sovereign within its own
limits, and subject to 10 CONTROL except that con-
templated hy the third clause Of the second see
tiOn, fourth article, of the Constitution of the
United States, by which person held to service
or labor in one State, under the laws thereof.
escaping into another State, shall not, in conse-
quence Of any law or regulation therein, lie dis
charged from such service or labour, but shall be
delivered up on claim of the party to whom the
Cd That tho relation Of master and slave does
not exist upon the principle Of natural and gener-
al right; that such relation is the creation OF
gostiye law, which is of no force beyond the ljm-
its and jurisdiction Of that State or country in
which it is enacted.
Sd. BY the sixth section of the thirteenth art-
Gle of tie Constitution of the State of Ohio. it is
declared that ''there shall he no slavery in this
State nor involuntary seryitudc unless for the
punishment Of crime" from which it follows that
slavery cannot exist in this State for a moment ::
and that when the person is not fugitive he and
his master stand as mar to man--that the master
has no power or authority to control him within,
or remove him without, the jurisdiction Of this
State
4th. ri at all persons v thin the limits of this
State even for the shortest period, become sub
eGt to the municipal laws, civil and criminal, are
entitled TO all the protection which these laws
afford, and this is the case be the person uhue or
Uach.
9TH. the third clause of the second section of
the fourth article of the Constitution of the United
States is the only authority for the restraint of
slave by his owner within this State, which, being
a provision denying general right, must be
strictly construed.
9Th. When slave is brought into this State
by his owners agent, the agent at the time pursu-
ing the general object Of the agency constituting
said clause of the Constitution of the United
States strictly, the slave cannot he declared a
matter but controlled by the agent in the further
ancc Of Lis agency; that if the agent in some
particular violates the instruction given to him
it becomes question between them, and not a
question under the said fugitive clanse.
18th. in cases where there is n conflict, the com
mon law yields to the statute, and they are both
superseded by constitutional law. Whatever may
be the common law upon the subject of the trdh
sit Of the property of the citizens Of one State
within tie jurisdiction and over the territory OF
another with reference to slave property, the
question is settled by the sixth section of the first
article of the Constitution of this State, most
clearly against such a right.
! Sth That to be protected, under the claim Of
necessity II dGvOlyes upon the Respondent to show
to the Court ;hat it was such necessity eEtirely
prercnted the Respondent from exercising any, eren
Iike siigltest r0liioR that such proof not being
made. his coming within the territorial limits Of
this State must be held to be roiHatafy.
| Whereupon the boys were pronounced to be free
from the control and power of Respondent.
The Judge was of opinion that they were too
young to make the election asked for by the Re
spondent's motion, and oyerruled the same,
Whereupon, on motion of the counsel for the
State, Dr. NJ. D. Baldrdge, of Sonecaville, was
appointed guardian fer the boys, who INN, ediatey
took them into his charge Cambridge Paper.
CAT HARpIN.-This is a Farm of 717 Acres
lying on Cat IIarpin River, Spotsyvania County
Va, upon which, it is believed, there is much
gold, as some beautiful specimens have been found
and it adJons, for more than a mile on the south
side, and directly in the range of the vein, the eel
ebrated Whitehall gold mine.-Price $4,000.
CLOVER GREEN This is a farm of 200
Acres, lying three miles southeast Of Cat Harpin.
Price, $4,000
MOUNT AIRY.-This is farm of sos Acres
having an excellent Grist Mill upon it, and about
three miles south of Clover Green. Price, $500.
Dwelling Houses, &c, are upon all these Farms
A., l., 4
information, may address w. II. POW ELL, Glover
Green, Spotsy lvania Co., Va.
We copy the above advertisement from the n. Y
Tribune, of the 23d inst.
Here are three large farms offered for sale at
prices which must amaze every one. just think OF
u farm improved with Dwelling house" and barn,
Tor by the ~" we understand barns, outhouses
offered for sale in Spotsylvania county, Virginia
mt So, 90 per acre Where is there nm improped
tdrm in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Wis
consiu, that could be bought for six dollars an
acre? This comes of making Virginia slave
breeding state Yet if we were young and devoted
to agriculture; we should propose instead of going
to the West to colonize Old Virginia with free la
borers from the North. With delicious climate
an accessible location abundant resources of fer
tiizaton within reach such farms are advertised
for sale at such ruinous prices, by the sweat of
free labor be made to bud and blossom as the rose.
,-Americda freeman.
NEGROES RErURNED.-The St. Louis Herald
states that four negroes, belonging TO Col V. L.
Bogy have voluntarily returned to their master,
being satisfied that Slavery preferable to Free
dom.
We have heard before Of oae instance in which a
fugitive returned from the North and threw him.
self upon the mercy of his master, making at the
same time bitter complaints of the cruelty Of the
abolitionists, and the hardships he had endured
but in little time he was again missing, and sew
orNl others with him. Col. Bogy had better keer
sharp lookout for those four negroes-M Minnesota
Republican.
The enormous quantity of forty-seyen million
gallons of whiskey rum, and brandy, and thirty
million gallons of strong beer were made in tn,
United States during the last year-being NOR,
more ,han three gallons apiece to every man, wo
man. child, and sucking baby, black and white, il
| the country.