The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-01
THE wuEELER SLAVE CASE.


THE WHEELER SLAVE CASE.
The New York Evening Post-which, like the other
gans Of antislayery anacism have become
ally neapactated either perceive the truth
where negro is coneerned-in commenting what
said IL Judge Kane decision takes care of course
10 be dsngenuous and dsort and pervert the rules of
law in obedience to the theory OF its school, which is
sacrifice constitutions, laws public peace individual truth
honor thing to blind negro MANIA senseess and
supersous the etshworship of its dolzed Africans
tfasey assumes that Judge Kane has decided in Wheel
ers case some new interpretations of law in contradic
ton Of the assumed doctrine that slavery exists only by
TIE municipal lsv of given State proceeds these
false premises to quote aganstus what it mistakenly pre-
tends il the authority of southern and other urss taken
from Goodes American Slave Code and Wheelers
Law 81 slavery" We have followed the Post into those
books and in doing have encountered the
gent proof OF the apparent inability of the aboltionists
either to think to read and quote canddly any
question affecting the constitutional rights the southern
States.
IN remarks upon Judge Kanes decision we stated
what supposed to be hela precisely is laid down
in the books referred by the Evening Post which books
are however misquoted by the Post rather mis-
quoted from Wheeler by Goodell the immediate authority
of the Post
Thus Goodel that in the Louisiana of Marie
Louise Marot (not Marriott the Post has t) Judge
Mathews said, Being free moment IN France not
IN he poor Of her former 10 reduce her again
slo5ery' Judge Mathews did not this, anything like
it, The pretended quotation is gross Justification of his
declaration, which was in the following words:
1t stated the bar and denied that person
claiming her immediate emancipation taken by her
owners France country whose institutions do oer
and
placed by them under the direction Of hair
his art Did she not become free France Being brought
from foreign country into the United States, is she free
according the prouisions Of lars enacted by
These questions tohicA oU but deem
remand the cause order that they may be
put in train for solution"
The Post and Goode its authority blunder this whole
matter fer they refer to Wheeler p 1885, in support of
the pretended declaration of Judge Mathews On looking
into Wheeler p 1885, it will be found that the case there
is Lunsford Coqnion which has nothing TO do with
Judge Mathews" with France but in which Judge
Martin decides according the head note follows:
"If the ora slave her from Kentucky to
Ohio, anno a,oraadi, she becomes free ipso facto."
That is the whole question in the which the Post
citesnanely whether the with the slave or
the slave from slave State free State to RESIDE
in the latter whether for longer shorter time The
rule held in all the southern States is fully stated by
}.
373:
In Louisiana it has been held that if person with
slave goes State to where it is declared
slavery shall not exist for short time the slave
ipo tao becomes free, and will be adudgcd and
sidered afterwards in all other States; and a person
moving Kentucky Ohio to reside his slaves thereby
became free, and were SO held in Louisiana"
But the decided by Judge Kane of resi-
denca for day It was mere transit Whether such
transit Of citizen of North Carolina with his slave through
Pennsylvania has the effect Of emancpating the slave
Ponds in the first instance the laws of Pennsylvania
and beyond that the constitution Of the United States
Judge Kane ruled that such transit protected both
The constitution of the United States and the laws Of Penn
syvana and the Posts authorities corroborate this
decisions for in Wheeers Law Of Slavery find reported
the Pennsylvania of Butler al Delapane refer
ring Sergeant Rawles Reports volume p 37s in the
following words
Held by the court Duncan, T., that the soourning Of
master citizen of another State, with his slave in this
State at different times, will entite such slave free
DOM unless there FINE a
here retaining of the slave for six monthsuness per-
haps in the of fraudulent removal backwards and
Forwards g8
So that upon examination of the Posts authorities,
it fully appears that if mes have changed since Jeer
son President and Marshall Chief Justice the
Post AYERS that change consists not in any new nepre
ttons Of law" by Judge Kane but in the systematic vo
of all law and the breaking down Of all the ancient
landmarks Of truth and Of right by that wild phrensy of
negro alteration and negro doatry which in these times
peryer the Judgment and corrupts the moral of
many otherwise intelligent and upright persons in the
northern States.