The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-03-29
Slave Case in Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati Columbian gives the facts O
the slave case which has been lately ON trial il
that city:
Two cOlored men, named Alfred Raney anC
Emanuel Points, have been the slaves of mar
who resided about three miles from Dover. Ken
lucky. He owed some three or four thousand
dollars to one Baldwin Haurl, of Missouri, who
took the slaves, it is said, at a valuation Of
l,4OO, according to the bill of sale, but with a
verbal contract that the said slaves should be
returned upon the repayment of the said assess
ed value.
The slaves were placed in charge of Stokes
Anderson and Paskett Anderson, as agents OF
Mr.. Haurl, and they brought them down from
Dover on the steamer kenton When the boat
reached here, last TUESDAY night, thew were
fastened together by a heavy trace chain locked
around their bodies, and were thus taken from
the steamer kenton and walked along the wharf
of our city to the steamer Jacob Strader, which
was to take them on.
This fact having leaked out, habeas corpus
was sued out against the captain OF the steam
er Jacob Straderv
At the hearing before Judge Spencer and
Judge Storer, 5. p. Chase appeared with Judge
Walker, and Messrs. Joliffe and Stallo. in be-
half of the colored men.
The evidence before the court sustained the
statement Of facts above given. On the 10th
INST, the case was argued by A. 0. Sullivan,
Esq, for the claimants, and by Judge Stallo.
for the negroes. Mr.. Sullivan admitted that
Slavery was an institution depending upon local
law, and that the presumption Of the law was
IN favor OF freedom but he contended that by
comfy IN the law of nations, IAN alien friend,
subject of foreign power, when he sOiourns
abroad, is allowed the rights and property of
his own land"
Judge Stallo made very brilliant argument
on the other side.
We have no report of the proceedings Of Sat.
urday, on which day it was expected that argu-
ments would be heard from Messrs. Walker.
Joliffe, and Hon. S. p Chase, for the slaves,
and L. Chambers, Esq, for the master. But
by telegraph, we learn that on the 2lst the two
negroes were brought into court when judge
Storer informed them that they were at liberty
to go free, but they preferred to return with
their master, and were at once conveyed across
the river without excitement.
The case is of great value, as sustaining the
doctrine laid down in the Lennon case in New
York, and in other cases, that slaves brought by
their masters into free States become free. un.
less they choose to return. An effort is to be
made to induce the Supreme Court ofthe United
States to overturn this law, and set up instead
OF 1t the universal law of slavery, but with the
signs, now in full view Of that tribunal, of spirit
on the part OF the State courts to maintain State
rights, it is likely that the effort will not be sue
cessful
Slave cases seem to be plenty in Ohio gener.
ally. A despatch from Cincinnati, dated the
10th, says:
1.-The Probate Court has issued an attach.
ment against the captain of the steamer Falls
City, who had nineteen slaves on board his boat,
on Sunday evening, at the upper falls, and who
prevented the Sheriff from examining the boat
until the slaves had been conveyed in yawl to
the Kentucky shore. "-BOston TclegrGph.