The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-10
TO BE CONTINUED.
ttR o0Rs MS SPEECH IN THE CONNOLLY
u CASE.

TO BE CONTINUED.
" MS SPEECH IN THE CONNOLLY
CASE.
j innati papers of Saturday week
{ , reports of the speech of Hon.
{ win on the l4th ult., in the case of
J Connolly, charged with harboring
q es, before the U. s. CouSt-Hon.
4 lit presiding. We subjoin q few
:; .ich will be read with interest:
own that residence, by the consent
q, Or, of even an hour, in free State,
a ge free, without any adjudication.
= cessary result of the principle that
5 ;es have right to protect them.
a Of the competition of slave labor.
It If this Slate have always considered
q zee an act of msnumission.
ls f the decisions, this comfy, as it is
e. p Story's Conflict on this point, is
h neither created nor promulgated
Is slative department. Such comfy
}, .xtended may be found in the stat.
!, sisted already that the uniform au-
II she courts in Kentucky, for sixty
q hat the voluntary return of slave
! en- sent by bis master to free State
g ice him to Slavery. Now, if there
9 comfy to be extended, as is claim.
q 81 found in the statutes of Kentucky,
IL ,he decisions. The gentleman who
/, prosecution has failed to show any
!, and ask your honor to apply
c lie to the case.
Ii what is the law of this State, but
rough to refresh our memories. Col.
ted, if l recollect rightly, that his
i was here a hundred times during
I this prior to June 18th, 1857. Now,
of April, 1857, law was passed
. :, Legislature, which denounees the
. false Imprisonment and kidnapping
a one who shall endeavor to remove
pm this State against hie will, or
| sere in involuntary servitude. (The
i d. Your Honor shall see that the
I iy excludes the case of the fugitive
Y But it declares that a slave, here
b ;ter's consent, shall be taken as q
: proposition which no one can con.
ow, Col. Withers permitted his slave
/. 10 this State several times during the
) f that law. And l wish TO know if
/ can hold that q man so sent was
q as slave, and, at the same time,
) >tizen of Ohio who acts in accord.
! he law, but did not know the de-
Ben. Munroe? Acting under these
{ ;, is my client to be indicted and
{ a felon, because he does not know
neighboring State ? Why, that
{ lire that citizen of Ohio should
e laws Of Kentucky, and the laws OF
States. The learned District At.
( .supposing that your Honor did not
1, Nv OF Kentucky, got a young lawyer,
ioung man, year old in his pro
told you, that he might from his
! ,ense it. Now, what your Honor
! from this young man. is my eli
to know under penalties Laugh
| aw as sent from Washington, and
/ gn by my friend. / know of no one
rom l should more willingly learn
they are to be hung up, like Calig
Oh that they can't be read, than my
prosecutor, whom / shall have te
the unwilling agent in the enforce
q Is law.
the law in Ohio, Mr.. Corwin read
t. % Rep, 622, the syllabus of the csse
I n rs. Poindexter ct al.
y ..lnued:
| is point arising under the law or
indictment is based, that seems tt
4 ,ur Honor's duty to discharge the
X The indictment reads that Connolly
! !, &c, so as then and there to preren
& very and arrest. The clause undel
2 indictment is very properly drawn il
\ section of the Fugitive Slave Act
1 Or will fndthe act in all the books
b is printing. Mr.. Corwin read the
/, ich concludes with declaring thar thu
boring and coucealing, 30 as to pre-
scovery, shall pay ST. 600 to the own
3 slave lost as a foresaid.
D ,twas also raised by Judge Stallo.
q nm resumed The gentleman though
I other day, to advert to the circum
/, der which the law was made.
q can know them better than myself
Is passed in September, 1850. Con
q been in session from the middle o
~ Is December, in anxious deliberation
il had made herself q State. Utal
> Mexico were awaiting Territorial
0 ats. For nearly eleven months the,
: under the simple law of militar,
{ and Southern men, seeing that Cali
\ likely to come ia as q free State
\ I'D be Northern gain, were deter
/ ave an equivalent concession.
{ ugitive Slave Law was made with tn,
i no negro could run away withou
Z int.
yes this law do7 In the first place, i
/ the appointees of court judges T.
i between master and slave. In tn,
!; sections it is provided that the mar
! J, upon a warrant being issued b,
" young gentleman, Mr.. Newhall
led at the surgical operation in tn
vine Broadhurst, when his wound
,ded to here-it was more that thai
justice-immediately serve it, undo
Of $1,000. lO.her sections were re
last section it provided, that an,
, can ait down before any court ii
b md swear that he has lost q blacl
(: certain marks upon him-his nos
ally fat, his shins having an UNUSUAL
/, cumber curve, or any other mark b
descendants of Ham can be distin
/ and having sworn to this, with n
! ss-exsmine him or detect his perjur
mits it, the court sets its broad seal I
!. comes to Cincinnati, appears befor