Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-12
SLAVE CASES.

The LENNON CASE DECIDED.-The Supreme
Court of New York has given q decision in the eel
ebTated Lennon Case, affirming the original de-
cision Of Judge Payne, which declared the slave,
free. Thus the Supreme Court of New York does
not recognize Judge Taney's law, as supreme in
that State.
A FUGITIvE SLAVE CASE IN BRooKLYN.-A man,
nearly white, owned as a slave by a planter in
Georgia, arrived at the port of New York on Sat.
urday last, in the steamship Florida, fro Savan.
nah. The captain was not aware that he was on
board until he was several days out. and on his ar.
rival in New York secured the services of two pc.
licemen, who took the man (who is called John
Smith TO the house of Thomas McNulty, at Red
Hook Point, where he was guarded night and day
by four persons employed for that purpose. The
fact became known to Mr.. Lewis Tappan. wh) ap.
piled to Judge Culver of the Brooklyn City Court
for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted
Constable Oliver served the writ, and brought the
fugitive before the Judge, at his house in Williams
burgh where the case was disposed of, and it is I'm,
derstood that he was discharged. 1t is also IN.
derstood that an action will be commenced agains,
those who retained Smith in their custody. Smith
was to have embarked for Georgia yesterday. |,
is not probable that be went in that direction.-N
Y. Tribune.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, Dec. Sd.
We published about two weeks since, a state
ment that two colored men mad been induced &c
leave Geneva, N. York, where they were living,
with the promise of liberal wages to work in a no
tel at Columbus that one of the men, named Dan,
iel Price, got of the cars at the Carlisle station,
and finding that he had passed Columbus, suspect
ed that he was being kidnapped, and refusing to
get upon the train again. When the man who was
with him attempted TO force him upon the platform
no knocked the white fellow down, and made his
escape, and has not since been seen.
The other boy. whose name is John Hite, also
from Geneva, remained on board the cars, still De-
lieving that the men were acting in good faith and
that everything would be satisfactory. With this
belief he came to this city, with the two men, but
where he has been taken from here, we do not learn
bu, facts which have recently been developed show
that instead of being a fugitive slave, he was free
and lead TO the supposition that he has been sue
cessfully kidnapped, and probably sold into slavery
A letter from a gentleman in Washington pretty
clearly establishes the fact that the father of thu
boy, Jesse Hite, now in the employ of Hon. 5. F
Hinton, was manumittsd in Washington City, il
l848, by David A.. Hall, Esq. His son, therefore
who has thus been carried into slavery, was free.
Who the two men were that had the two boys il
charge, it is not yet ascertained, but an effort ha
been made to ferret them out, and bring them t.
Justice. With this view, some friends of the ne
groes pro:ured a requisiti0n from the Governor o
New York, and au officer arrived in this city from
that State. yesterday, in pursuit Of the kidnapper
and the negroes. lhe search Tor both Will be pros
ecuted with vigor. That y foul wrong has beef
committed. is qnite evident, and the friends of hu
manity and justice should lend their aid in detect
ing the perpetrators. II the boys were fugitiv
slaves it would be quite a different affair, but the
we're undoubtedly free, and therefore entitled t
the protection of our laws. We trust every pos
sible facility will be afforded the New York Office
in his search.
A subsequent number of the Gazette states tina
the boy who escaped from the cars has been foun
at Columbus whittier he escaped on foot after ge
ting out Of the hands Of the kidnappers. The CT
zette adds: 81.
"The other boy, Daniel Hite, was brought to thi
city, conveyed across the river to CoyiDgton, an
from there shipped down the river and sold I'M