The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-06-28

EQUITY IN VRGNIA.-The Richmond En-
quirer furnishes the following statement:
"Eliza Crawford and five children, colored,
suing for their freedom. The case was decided
in favor of the plaintiffs; the-evidence being
full and complete that the chief plaintiff Eliza,
was born of a white woman of Georgia. She
is now about thirty-five years of age, and has
been in slavery between fifteen and twenty
| years. Her appearance indicates that her father
was mixture of African and Indian She is
now the mother of six children, all of whom
were plaintiffs, except the eldest, who never be-
longed to defendant, and who, it is said. will
now be set at liberty without resistance There
was no evidence, however, to show that the de-
PENDANT was in any way privy to, or accounta-
BILE for, the injustice done the plaintiffs"
The condition Of the mother is inherited by
the children in all the slave States This rule,
being for the benefit of the owners of slaves.
of course will not be formally violated by them,
especially as instances like the above are so
rare as to offer little temptation to the cupidity
of the possessors of such property" Although
it is confessed that Eliza Crawford has been in
bondage between fifteen and twenty years, and
her children all their lives, it does not appear
that the thought has entered the mind of any
one, that she and they are entitled to any indem-
I nifty for these years of toll and degradation.
| They who ensaved her would not have done so
without profit, and they are permitted to retain
the fruits of her labor. And yet, for the resto-
ration of these people to their God-given liber-
ty, we are expected to sing peans to the justice
and magnanimity of the legal tribunals of the
| slave States.
| DIsCHARGED.-HarrietB arritt, Fanny Smith,
| Isaac Goodwin, and j. W. Thomas, who were
in jail for being in the State without license,
were whipped and discharged.-S. Louis MIR
| rOr.
Shame on Missouri. whipped and dis
| charged" for the crime of being free men and
women Chicago Journal
If these free negroes had gone to Illinois, and
the laws of that State had been executed, they
would have been sold for the crime of being
free men and women. - Louisville Journal.
| And if sold into Kentucky, and any white
man had been suspected of helping them out of
bondage, he would have been pursued and kill
ed by some rufian constable, aided by crowd
of citizens.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT NIAGARA FALLs-A
man went over the American Falls on the
morning of the 23d instant. He was in the act
of landing skiff just above the rapids, when
he was carried away by the current, and the
boat capsized. His name is unknown, but he
is supposed to have been on his way from Can
ada with vegetables.
THE SCHUYLER FRAUD.-We learn that in
| a.
of Judge Bosworth, in the case of the Mechan
les Bank against the New Haven Railroad
Company, holding said company responsible
for the Schuyler over-issues of fraudulent stock,
| has been confirmed.
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN MISSISSIPPI
The Holly Springs (Mississippi) Times states
that Professor Charles s. Brown, of Pontotoc
Male Academy, in that neighborhood, was way
laid and killed on the It'll instant, by youth
named John f. Ray, whose younger brother
Professor Brown had punished in school, If
Professor Brown was Northern man, the Rich
mond Examiner and other journals of its kin
dred will no doubt again exult
A CONVERT TO PROSLAvERYIsM! - There
was once at Jonesborough, in East Tennessee,
parson known by the name of Brownlow, who
was somewhat remarkable on account of his
strong Anti-Slavery sentiments, and his indie
| pendent annunciation Of them. In those DAYS.
we are assured, very general confidence was re-
posed IN this reverned parsonage; and he pos
slby was honest. But, if so, can it be possible
that he Is the same Parson Brownlow who is
now the very Scorn OF shareholders themselves,
| because alike of his lowly crouching to the
slave power, and his braggart denunciation and
| threatening of those who think and feel as he
did in the days of his integrity? We quote a
| specimen of his recent funkeyism:
"The true-hearted citizens of East Tennessee
and property holders ought to enter into leagues.
and whip, black, and ride on a rail, irrespective
otage, calling, family, association, every preach
er, citizen, or traveller, who dares to utter one
word In opposition to Slavery, or who is found
in possession OF an Abolition document. These
are our sentiments, and we are willing and
ready to help others to carry them out"
Dix & Edwards, 10 Park Place New York.
have sent us the July part of " Dickens House,
hold Words, which affords both recreation and
instruction for every intelligent mind, and is
worthy place upon the centre-table of every
family. The first half of the story of "Mother
and Stepmother" is contained in this part.
YANKEE NoTIoNs IN FOREIGN LAYDs-The
Maine Law" is an important subject of discus
sion in the newspapers and in public meetings
in various parts of England. 1t is called indif-
ferently by this title and that of the "Prohibi-
tory Law" and it finds able advocates in every
position of life. We read that on the 3Oth of
May meeting of the members of the United
Kingdom Alliance was held in the large room
of Exeter Hail. there being between four and
five thousand persons present
The Earl of Harrington moved
That it is neither right nor polite for the
State to afford legal protection and sanction to
any traffic or system that tends to increase crime,
to waste the national resources, to corrupt the
social habits and to destroy the health and lives
of the people. That the traffic in Intoxicating
liquors, as common beverages, is inimical to the
true interests of individuals, and destructive of
the order and welfare of society," and ought there
fore to be prohibited"
Mr.. Foster, publican, moved the following
amendment, amid great tumult-
"That this meeting fully recognising the ad-
vantages of temperance, and regarding it as
a moral and religious duty which should be in.
culcated by argument and upheld by example,
is of opinion that any attempt to enforce it by
enacting prohibitory laws is unwise and impoi-
itic, calculated to be productive of great incon-
venience, and an unjustifable interference with