Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-20
miscellaneous Gun1marp.

AFTER SLICE OF MExIco.-The President lie
casting an 'eye Of thoughtfulness" las Cushing
has it, towards Mexico. One of the Democratic
letter writers at Washington says:
THE next great question will be the Mexican
question. General Gushing has sounded the cry
in his Richmond speech and South Carolina letter.
The General thinks the time has gone by for the
purchase of Cuba. lie asks, why should Spain
sell Cuba 1t is her most valuable possession
Would we sci! Georgia or Pennsylvania Certain.
ly not. The next demonstration will DO upon the
land of Cortez. The pear is ripe, and ready to
fall nay, is falling. Shall we not catch and eat
it?"
the following we have a practical illustration Of
the fact that slavery exists North as well as South.
The colured mans right to The soil is no better pro-
tected in Minnesota than in Alabama.
ANOTHER "DRED' CAsE.-From the Lake City
Tribune, published in Wabashaw County, Mime
sofa, and abb edited by Rev. ID. G. Sterry and A..
A. Norwood, Esq. it appears that there lives a
man, but n few miles from Lake City, known as
bred Nelson-a black man outside, but whittier in.
SIDE than many who sneer at u black skin and wink
at black hearts and deeds, who went there two years
ago and made a claim on the HalfBree Tract and has
made several hundred dollars worth Of improve
ments on the place, and in doing SO expended
nearly his all. Months ago, somebody, with q
heart a good deal blacker than Dred's skin, scrip.
pied" ~the,poor, defenceless black man, and center.
ed" his land ut the u, S. Land Office. Under
the recent act of Congress. permitting actual set
tiers on that tract TO prove up their pre-emptions,
and enter their land, poor bred Nelson sent his
declaratory statement to the U. s. Land O~fice'for
that district. 1t was returned of course no
blame to the local land officers. with the state
ment that it would not be received. inGsmuch as the
N data tore nf nnr land boJ AL - II
his skin was a little too dark, and it would not
please the lords of the lash if he were allowed the
privileges of a man. And now poor bred has no
remedy-no help. lie is stripped, robbed Of his
all and left to perish. white men are not bound
to respect any rights which he may claim"
Verify, thIs is severity and wickcdness. A
righteous God will not fail to visit upon the author
of such injustice q just retribution. If there be q
hell for the wicked, let the trainers aud supporters
of such an infamous law, together with the villain
who plundered the poor man Of his hume, receive
the warmest attention Of their father-the Devil.
Can Democracy hold up its head and look such
facts in the face, and ask Northern freemen to sus.
tain such an unjust policy Chicago Democrat.
How THE DRIED ScoTr DECISION WORKS IN ALA.
BANA.-A gentleman who resided n long time in
Mobile, Alabama, and owned large estates there.
afterwards moved to New Orleans, and finally
went to France with his family and there died.
Before his death he conveyed to his children his
property in Alabama by deed. He did this to avoid
any Of the difficulties that sometimes attend wills,
and supposed he had secured his property to his
children beyond Il peradventure, but the Courts at
Mobile have decided that the deeds are void be-
cause the children are within three degrees Of AT.
rican decent, and because they were not born in
Alabama, but in New Orleans, while the father
J was residing there.
We take the following from the decision of the
Court, as given by Chancellor Reyes, and reported
in the Mobile Times:
Every peeson born without The jurisdiction of
a State is an alien to that State, unless such person
come within some exception to the general rule
The natives Of Louisiana would, therefore, all be
aliens to this State but for the Constitution of the
U. States. lt does not give privileges and immu-
mites in the State of Alabama to any of the inhab.
itants of Louisiana, except citizens of the United
States. Negroes are not, and cannot become citi-
zens Of the United States. bred Scott VS.. Sanford.
l9 How, 1893. The fact that free negroes owe al.
legiance to their native State, or to the Federal
Government, cannot affect the question of State
alienage in another State.
The general rule is that aliens may take land
and hold it and enjoy 1t until Office found but that
is true only of aliens who are not forbidden by the
policy of the State to become inhabitants of it.
The defendants named are free negroes and aliens,
and they cannot ZONE to this State without viola
ting oT public policy, and they could not remain
in it without being guilty of a felony. Those per-
oOb NV uLh tohU p1 CaubOl tuhC US
preSenti by deed-for the latter mode of convey.
ance is a substitute for the former. But, indepen.
IDENTIFY Of that technical rule, it would be idle to
argue that n class of persons may become the own
els OF our lands, when our laws punish inhabitan.
cy by them as q felony and still more idle would
it be to argue that though they cannot occupy our
lands themselves, yet they may hold them by
! agents and receive the profits through the hands
of our citizens"
The vote on the question of calling n convention
to revise the Constitution of New York stands for
lO7 ,63S against 1898 majority against 81
, 1875.
The foil official vote of New York State, for Gov.
ernor, stands thus: .
Morgan, Rep, 247, 1928 Parker. Dem, $50, 344
Burrows. Am, COSTS Gerrit Smith, Alb, 1888
Morgan over Parker, l7,487.
The State canvass can vary this but a few votes.
The aggregate vote is 544, 780. Last year it was
but 439 7S9. Increase, l04, 99l, or nearly 20 per
cent, The republican minority of 1S, O57 last year
is converted into a republican majority of nearly
equal amount this year.
CAPTURE OF SLAvERs. Another SLAYER has been
captured on the coast Of Cuba. The barque Venus
formerly sailing under the Mexican flag, was taken
by n Spanish war steamer a few days since. OF
Moro Castle. with nearly six hundred negroes on
board. The barque Ketch Brothers, captured on
the coast Of Africa, arrived at Charleston on
Wednesday morning. She was formerly owned
in Charleston, but was sold to parties in Havana.
Madame Pfeider, the traveller, 10 dead.