New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-05

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taken in already, We must decline {" be caught
second time BY any such chah.
The object sought to be secured BY the State OF
yirQinia in the Lennon case, is nothing less than
to convert the City of New-York into grand
depot for the domestic slave-trade-a business IN
which the State Of Virginia has such deep STAKE
ard interest. The business in most other branches
Of traffic, whether the goods disposed OF be OF do
mestc or foreign orgir already center' in this CITY,
Should the State of Virginia through the aid Of Dir.
O'COpor's purchased eloquence, and, as ne says
unpurcbasea opinions, succeed in getting
judgment in her favor We may expect to see also
the domestic slaye-trade which has hitherto mainly
ceLtered in Baltimore, Alexandria, Richmond and
New Orleans speedily establishing its headquarters
here. That such is the extent Of the object aimed
at, is fully apparent from the printed points sub
mitted by Mr. OConor to the Court. The third Of
these points is as follows:
"The State OF Sew.York restrain citsen Of the
Uud States from e.oe.by ps,ns r9ush h'r territory vita
his slaves other property on lawful visit - State where
Slavery 10 allowed BY law
Ard in exposition Of this general doctrine we
fLd among others, the following propositions, sus-
tained or seemingly sustained, by great array Of
cited cases:
u. and among the and with the Indian
'trb.s.' (Contt. $, art J. sec 8, Ubd -
s.te eons.,uonay en.ct reputation 81 eo"~ees be-
tween the STATE, .hfhsr ID Genres; n h.; Exercised the same
AT all events States have reserved the right 10
A II. .d 1o9 s9 % S
ss9s Of s1c1ye pGer s SSssS Of s be-
tween citizens of different States well as between them
and .P. Of S Se ,na eaa e
the citizens Of other States for passing through he territories
w their property nor can any State interrupt or disturb them
IN such passage"
It is perfectly obvious that the right claimed in
these propositions is not merely the simple right of
passage or transit through our city and Shte It is
the commercial right of translt-the right of
making this city depot for the sale and dstrbu-
tion Of slave merchandise; and we are free to con-
fess that if men, women and children are to be held
as property within the State of New-York, and
recognized ss property at all, we do not see how
this consequence can be avoided. If Mr. OConor
and his clients are entitled to anything n this case,
they would seem to be entitled to all tina. they ask.
OF course, if the City Of New. York is to be con-
verted into grand depot for the domestic slave
trade, We must expect that business to be followed
and attended here by al its customary ard indeed
necessary incidents. As We have warehouses for
other kinds of merchandise, 80 We must expect TO
have slave.pens for the special custody of those
human cbattels, If not, indeed, to see our county
prisons, as is usual in the 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 slave pens, and from
these slavepens to the ships that carry them away,
repeating the scenes by which the City of Wash
neton used 10 be discraced, and which led to the
enactment Of the law prohibiting the slave trade
in the District Of Columbia-an act doubtless, in
Mr.. OCOnors opinion, atrOciOusly unconstitutional.
Of course too, BY way of facilitating the business,
We must have slave auction rooms and slave auction
blocks, or perhaps, as is usual at the South, the
area in front Of the City Hall may be appropriated
to that purpose. Some Of these negroes will be
certain to keep up their old habits of escaping
and running away, so thst in all probability there
will be occasion in the rural districts around New
York for the employment of several packs Of blood
hounds in the business Of hunting them up, while
now and then recovered runaway, or, the runaway
is not to be found, same slave man or woman, VINO
s supposed to know where be is, may be taken
behind some of cur rresby teran or other churches
to be logged, as in the case Of the piOus Colonel
Netherlapd of the Presbyterian Church Of Rogers
vile, Tennessee.
The owners of these slaves brought here for 'ale
and shipment, would doubtless be unwilling, while
they are detained here-which, in an unfayorable
state Of the market, might sometimes be for long
periods-to keep them entirely idle. They might
hire them out in gangs to work under the lash of an
overseer, on our wharyes, in digging cellars and
grading and sweeping streets underbdding for these
purposes cur resident white population, which they
might well afford to do, as all they would get IN
this way would be just so much pure gain.
All this might very much delight the hesrs Of
Mr.. O'Cenor and other gentlemen of his philan-
throplcal turn of mind, who regard it as duty
which white men owe 10 negroes TO hold them IN
slavery and force them to work. Il might DO bis
heart good as he passed to Court with his briefs In
bis pocket to hear the lash in the hands Of some
benevolent white man resoundng over the head
and ears of some negro for that negros good.
Every chained gang Of slaves thst be met on his
way might seem to him only fresh evidence of
the zeal and energy with which white philanthropy
of the OConor school-was fulfilling its mis-
sion of outy toward the negroes. IL be
happened 10 pass slave auction he would
doubtless step in to get little more re-
freshment Of the same sort. There are. it
nay be, quite number of persons among US to
whom the converting New York into a depot for
The domestic slaye trade might seem 10 De q very