New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12

When the Constitution of the State Of Illinois
was last revised, those humble creatures of the
Southern slsyebreeders, who desecrate the name OF
Democrats. caused to be inserted into il clause
requiring the Legislature to pass laws prohibiting
the immigration of negroes or muattOes into the
State. In execution Of this provision the same
class Of beings at the session Of 1853, placed on
the statute-boOk of the State the following dis
graceful enactment:
"Ifsny mulaito bond free sh. HEREAFTER come
into h. State aud remain ten days. vita hs intention d Is.
guilty II high i'due ard for the hr't onense '1s De-
county where said mgsto may Dc
found 1.-THE said negro OF m9att9 shall D. found
guilty and the fine assessed be NOT paid forthwith shall Be the
duty Of said said mustto 70 the Gus
tody Of the Sheriff Of said county or Otherwise keep nm nst 81
nea proceed TO said negro mula;to 70 who
will pay said fine and or the shortest time and the said
work for and serve out said time &c
The pretense for the enactment of this barbsrous
statute which marks restitution OF humanity but
step or two short of cannibalism, was the danger
that without it the State might be oyerrun with
free negroes 1t was in vain that the opponents
Of this most disgraceful ena ctment showed by the
census returns, that throughout the southern por-
ton of the State where this terror of free negroes
chiefly prevailed, they were decreasing at rate
which would soon cause them TO disappear alto
eether 1t was predetermined that the general
humiliation Of the Free States, in the enactment of
the Fugitive Slave Act, should be followed up by
special humiliation on the part Of Illinos--doubtess
by way of recommending Arnold Douglass to the
special favor of the slaveholders-and accordingly
one John A. Logan, one of Douglass special pohtl-
cal friends. and notorious leader of the sham De-
mocrscy of Illinois, introduced and engineered
through the Legislature the above detestable enact
ment The first attempt to put it in force lately
occurred in ST. Clair County, at the City OF Belle
Vile. short distance east Of st. Louis, when the
following notice was posted in " three public
places, according to the acquisitions OF the statute
STATE OF ILLINOIS, St. Clair county,.'.
"A LEGAL NOTICE.-Whereas, Jackson
GY hednsn. rnuatto On the 7th Of April, d. 1857,
~ ~ lr.gned Justice Of the Peace for said county aud
IL was tined - jury Of twelve men who found nan guilty
of high mdemeanor an al r.t oHense hned hun IN the
sum Of S-agrecabe the pror9n; Of the Act OF February
r. 1853 prevent the immigration OF oesiVs' VI IL
Redn an for the amount q and suit which has
not been paid whrreuPon h, was PLACID in the custody OF t
with q. i. required b law.
This notice that, az O'Clock IN
the 18th DAY April 1857 ONCE in B'!evie IN 'ad
county will proceed to sell Of public auction tue seIcs 9i
the said jackson Redmsn person or persons who WIN
pay the shortest tneeccOrdn9 " the
provisions Of the act aforesaid.
" Posted this 9th day Of April, A. d. lss7
CASPER THIELL, Justice Of the Peace
The sale, however, did not take place. The late
Lieutenant Governor of the State, Mr. G.. Koerner,
anxious to throw a vail as far as possible, over 30
dsgraceful an exposure came forward and paid
out Of his own pocket the fine and costs, amount
ing in the whole to $62 80; and that put stop to
further proceedings. We trust this spot of Egyp.
tian dirt and darkness-this yOmit of PrO.Slayery
drunkenness and debauchery, defing the statutes
of Illinois-nOw that public attention has been
thus c4ed to it, will not long be permitted to dis
grace her free soil and to pOute her free air; but
that an early opportunity will be found to sweep
away not only this but every other fragment of her
black code, and along with them the Chinese pro-
vision in her new Constitution under which Slavery
and the Saye-Trade have been attempted to DC re-
established. This duty is the more incumbent
upon them when even such rabd PrO-S!avery
journal as The Missouri Republican lends its aid to
hold up the black code of Illinois, and the recent
attempted proceedings under it, TO merted Obloquy
and contempt.