Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-17

passing through her territories with their property
nor can any State interrupt disturb them in such
passage"
1t is perfectly obvious that the right claimed in
there. propositions is not merely the simple right Of
passage or transit through our city and Statc il is
the commercial right Of transt-the right of making
thiS4ity depot for the sale and distribution oi
slave merchandise and we are free to confess that
if men, women and children are TO be held as
property within the State of Newt York. and re-
cognizcd us property at ALL we do not see how this
consequence can be avoided. If MIR. O'Conor and
his clients entitled to nything in this case they
would seem to be entitled to all they ask.
OF course, if the city of New York is to be CON
verted into grand depot for tho domestic slave
trade, we must expect that business to be followed
and attended here by all its customary and indeed
necessary incidents. As we have warehouses for
other kinds Of merchandise. SO we must expect to
have slave-pens for tho especial custody Of those
human chattcs, if not, indeed to see our county
prisons, usual in She Slave States converted to
this private use. We must expect to see gangs of
men, women and children chained together and
driven through streets from the ships that bring
them here for sale to these slaye.pens, and from
these slayeIens to the ships that carry them away
repeating the scenes by which the City of Wash.
inSton used to be disgraced, and which led to the
enactment of the law prohibiting the slave-trade in
tho District of Columbia--an act doubtless in
Mr.. OCOnOr's opinion, atroCiously nnconstitution-
al. OF course, too, by the way Of facilitating the
business, VIC must have slave auction rooms and
slave auction blocks, or perhaps, usual Mt the
South, the area in front of the City Hall may be
appropriated to that purpose. Some of these ne
groes will be certain to keep up their old habits Of
escaping and running away, so that in all proba.
bility there will be occasion in the rural districts
around New York for the employment of several
packs OF bloodnOunds in the bushes of hunting
them up, while now and then recovered runaway
or il the runaway is not found, some slave man or
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be taken behind some of presby yterian or other
churches to be fogged, as in in the Of the pi-
Gus Colonel Ne;hellan Of the Presbyterian Church
of Rogersvllc, Tennessee.
Tie owners of these slaves, brought here for
sale and shipment would doubtless be unwilling,
while they are detained here-whicb, in an unlav-
orable state of the market might perhaps be for
long periods-to keep them entirely idle They
might hire them out in gangs, to work under the
lash Of oycrseer, on our wharfs, in digging Gel
lars and grading and sweeping streets, underbid,
ding for these purposes resident white popula-
ton, which they might well afford to do, all they
would ret in this way would be pure gain.
All this might very much delight the heart Of
Mr. OConor and other gentlemen of his philan-
thropcal turn of mind, who regard 1T as duty
which white men owe to negroes to held them IN
Slavery and force them to work. 1t might do his
heart good as he passed to Court with his briefs
in his pockets to hear the lash in the hands of
some benevolent white man resounding over the
head and ears Of negro for that neGro's good.
Every chained gang OK slaves that he met on his
way might seem to him only fresh evidence of
the zeal and energy with which white philanthro-
py--of the O'Conor school--was fulfilling its mis-
sion of duty toward the negroes. If he happened
to pass slave auction he would doubtless step IN
to get little more refreshment Of the same sort.
There are, it may be, quite number of persons
among us to whom the converting New York into
depot for the domestic slavetrade might seem to
be very good thing, or at all events, thing not
to be alarmed at. Should our Court of Appeals
decide the Lennon case in accordance with the
views and wishes of Mr. O'Conor and his clients,
we may as WELL all of u.s. whether we like it or not
make up our minds to that branch of traffic in
troduced among us.