Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-13
TAE KIDNAPPING CASE IN %PITTsBURG

MS CASE vi HAN'ff"S
decided. The Jury it will be recollectcd. found a
verdict of guilty, but a motion for q new trial. is yet
pondine. The lawyers arc leaving no effort untried
20 secure Shaw's release on some legal %technie'
nlity. They will continue to work for him till
he has exhausted his blood money, in paying them
for presenting and urging legal bubbles. A mo-
ton for a new trial was argued before the court
last week, hut the judge has not yet rendered his
decision. During the trial, one of the jury was
taken sick, when, by the consent Of all parties the
trial proceeded with the remaining eleven. Shaw
now claims that though he consented to this arr
rangement. it was wrong. This was urged win
other reasons for q new trial.
The Pittsburg Gazette speaks with decision,
against permitting the kidnapper to escape. 1t
says:
"The new turn that this case has taken in court
excites a good deal of attention in this community.
Taking tho evidence and carefully weighing 1t,
we are prepared to say that a more dastardly case
Of man stealing cannot be found on record there
are no epithets that will fifty characterize the pro-
ceedings Of this Shaw, as they were brought out
in evidence before the jury, but infamous ana ola-
bolical. Let Alabama and all the other delightful
sisterhood that live and thrive on stolen labor, de
fend their protege here if they want to, ana de-
pounce the 'fanaticism" of a community that Is
indignant and outraged when it Bees a white
man, watching from day to day an individual who
is laboring honestly at his occupation, watching
him as a serpent watches to strike Here he pro-
poses to get him into Virginia, to gag him, to rope
him, spirit him away and make S5OO on his sinews
.epd his blood Now he follows him to one place,
now to another, and at last finds his chance to
bounce on him and deliver him over to the dealer
in human flesh He comes back here the watch.
'er, the close'scented hourd, the careful dealer in
human bones, returns to this city, but cannot avoid
Boosting on the cars, as he returns, of the valor-
.ous exploit | Well! Alabama ought to look out
for so faithful q creature She ought to watch
with interest the valorous movements to get this
fellow out of the hands of Justice. She ought to
send q man here to pat him on the head and say
'"good dog" in behalf of the sovereign State of AL
ALBANIA, which just now is intending to dissolve the
Union, unless Shaw is released.
The lawyers may raise as many bubbles as they
can invent ; doubtless the Court will settle as to
their weight. but the great fact remains behind,
clearly proved and established before q jury, that
this Shaw yelpod on the track of an honest man,
as free in the eyes Of the law as any man in Pitts
burg, spirited that man away, and sold him into
lifelong, hopeless Slavery. That stands and will
stand until disproved.
The verdict entered and enrolled, q new trial is
demanded, in part on the ground that there were
in the box but eleven jurors, although the prisoner
OF the time consented to and asked for the trial by
the eleven men. 1t is by no means an uncommon
proceeding in cases Of trials Of misdemeanor.-
More importance is justly attached to trials of cas-.
es where life depends upon the verdict, as in the
cases Of Cancemi, nNewY ~ork-wherc all the worst
rogues escape-and as far as we are able to learn,
also in the cases which were cited before the Court
on Saturday. In the District Court of this county
we are cognizant of one case, at least, within the
past week, tried by eleven jurors by consent of par
ties, and the lawyer against whom the verdict bore
said not a word about his having done wrong in
'consenting as he did, nor Of taking the advantage
of that wrong, after the verdict was rendered.
In fact the case of eleven jurors sitting on tri-
ais is of very frequent, we had almost said of week
" occurrence in that Court. The parties agree to
i, beforehand, and in full view Of all the facts, and
there is and end to it.
We hope and trust that the good, wholesome,
sound, public sentiment Of this community will be
grati6ed in its attempt, in spite Of all the bubbles
of the law, to frown down any other plot like that
of Shaw's. The safety of our citizens demands it.
Who can tell but he may be the next victim,-
What man, white or black, lfor Ferris was a viii
ter and better looking man than Shaw ISL can say,
when he goes out in the morning, that some hound
may not seize him, gag him, and convey him into
lifelong bondage in the next twenty'four hours =?
The thing has been done here once We trust that
the perpetrator of the deed may not have an oppor-
tunity soon to repeat it"
Rev, Dr.. Lord, Of Buffalo, has left his church
for o few months to 90 South for his health. lie
goes to Mobile, and will FIJI temporarily the pulpit
left vacan. by the death of tho Rev. DR.. Mande'
Vile.
This Rev. DR.. Lord is the anne Divine who
preached in 1852 in favor Of submission to the
Fugitive Slave Law teaching that whoever re-
and bringeth upon himself damnation." No dan.
ger of his being lynehed in Mobile for an aboli'
zionist, if they do drive off booksellers for corrupt
ing the morals of slave'drivers by selling to them
Frederick Douglass Narrative. DIR. Lord will no
doubt have o rich and edifying spiritual time in
communion with that Methodist brother in the
ministry who secured the l%ynching Of tho book
seller.
They'll seize OH Tony blythe wool
And pull for heavenly Union.
CONSOLIDATING THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hammond