The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-16

ment, established to ''perpetuate liberty" in
to huge slave machine, driving. whipping
or selling slaves, al over the land, except
where some benignanhpower has stayed It's
course.
In the first great case on record, the SOM
erset case, HowelPs State Trials, Lord Mans
field declared that slavery is of such a nature.
that it is incapable of being introduced on any
reasons, moral or political, but only by posi-
tive law, and it is SO odous that nothing can
he suffered to support 1t tut positiee lac"
This ruling has been recognized as authority
all over this country
Chief Justice Marshall, in the of the
Antelope 10, Wheaton, says of slavery: That
it is contrary to the law Of nature will scarcely
be denied That every man has a natural
right to the fruits OF his own labor is admitted,
and that no otherp person can rightfully deprive
him Of these fruits. and appropriate them
against his will. seems to- be the necessary
result of that admission"
The Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case
of Lunsford Y Coquillon II Martin, decides;
The relation of owner and slave is. in the
States of the Union III which il has legal ex-
istence creature Of the municipal law
La the case of Simmons, Washington's 5
c. c. Reps, it was held by Judge Washing
ton, of the same State as Judge Kane, that
the constitution and laws of the United States
apply only 10 fugiaoes. escaping from one
Safe and fleeing into another. and not to the
case of slave voluntarily brought by his
master"
In Louisiana it Las been decided in the
case of Marie Louise Marot ex. el. 8 Curry s
louisiana R. 473.
The fact of slave being taken to the king
dom of France or other country, by the own
er, where slavery or involuntary servitude is
not tolerated operates on the condition of the
slave and produces Immediate emancipation.
Where slave becomes free by the laws of
another country or state to which he is taken
by the owner, 1t is not in the power of the lat
ter ever again to reduce him 10 slavery"
In Kentucky, RaLkn Ly dia Marshall.
the Court says, Slavery is sanctioned by the
laws OF this State; but we consider this a ri ght
existing by positus Tar of a municipal char
acter, without foundation in the law of nature.
Judge MLean. higher authority than
Judge Kane, says in the ease of Jones Van
zandt, M'Lean's Rep:
Slavery is local in its character. 1t de-
pends on the municipal law Of the State where
it is established And if a person held in
slavery go beyond the jurisdiction where he
is SO held, and into another sovereignty where
slavery Is NOT tolerated, he becomes free
In Massachusetts, in the case of Common
wealth V Aves, g Pickering, Chief Justice
Shaw, in regard to this very point, THAT the
right of property follows the person and
where by the law of place, personal prop
erty; by the comfy G: nations, it must be
deemed propertynat n thls were true, IN the
II Is ah,.fil2elf the argument employs it, if
slavery exists anywhere. and if by the laws
of any place a property be acquired in
slaves the law of slavery must extend to eve
ry place where such slaves may be carried
The maxim, therefore, and the argument can
apply only to those commodities which are
everywhere, and by all nations. treated and
deemed subjects OF property. But it is no,
speaking with strict accuracy to say, that
property can be acquired in human beings, by
local laws. Each state may, for its own con-
venence, declare that slaves shall be deemed
property, and that the relations and laws of
personal chattels shall be deemed to apply to
them; as for instance, that they may be
bought and sold, delivered attached, levied
upon. that trespass will lie for an injury done
to them, or trover for converting them. But
it would be perversion of terms to say
that such local laws do in fact make them per-
sonal property generally; they can only de-
termine, that the same rules Of law shall ap-
ply to them as are applicable to property, and
this effect will follow only 50 far as such laws
proprio rtgore can operate"
INTOLERANCE OF RoMASIsN.-Da before
Yesterday, says the Cleveland Morning Ex
press, an instance Of an aggravated character
came eff in this city, which shows the iatoler-
ance of Romanism too palpably for US TO pass
it over in silence.
An Irish Girl, about twenty years Of age,