Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-04-16
THE PECULIAR INsTITUTI0N-eAsE OF
G. SHAW.

Our readers ars all familiar with this name Il
is q name venerated in Tuscumba, Alabama tho
name of patriot who has been suffering. in jail,9
to use the language Of Mr.. Swartzwelder, "for
having acted in accordance with the constitution
and the laws" II will be remembered that Shaw
was tried in our Court last year for having kidnap.
ped and sold into slavery in Alabama, man
hom every body supposed to be white, NAMED g..
W. Ferris. On the second morning of the trial;
one of the jurors was taken suddenly sick. Mr..
Swartzweder for the defence declared his willing.
ness to 60 through the trial with eleven iurors.
The eleven jurors gave in verdict against Shaw,
whereupon MIR. Swartzwelder moved for NEW
trial. on the ground that the man was tried BY On.
ly eleven jurors. In lengthy opinion, the Cobrs
granted a trial for that reason alone, and yes
terday the new trial came j. M. Krkpat.
rick and Mr.. Collier appeared for tho Common:
wealth, and NJ. Swartzwelder, Esq, for the de,
fence. At the time Of the first trial we published
the testimony in extenso. 1t is not necessary 10
republish is. We shall, however, refer to few
points in yesterdays evidence. 'sH
GRAND ArsrAKf.
The wife of Ferris was in court with her child.
She is very respectable looking white woman;
is peculiarly fair, its hair golden yellow, hang.
ing in ringlsts about its neck. 1t played about
the floor of the Court room all yesterday as limo.
cent as if it were not the child Of slare. now
doomed to life Of unrequitted toll On the stand
she testified that she married Ferris, in this city,
six years ago, and never knew he was a muatto
until she saw it stated in the newspapers that her
child is four years DID, and that she has not seen
her husband for about two years. Surely tha. 10
bringing slavery pretty we'll home to us, when
slaves are found who cannot be distinguished from
white men This was Mrs. Ferris mistake.
A SLAVE HOLDER ON THE STAND
A great deal of testimony was adduced for the
prosecution, which was the same as that brought
up on the first trial. That side rested, and Mr.
Swartzweldor opened for the defence. which he
grounded upon the fact he proposed to prove, viz
that Ferris was not free mulatto," 1.-THE words
in the statute but slave. To prove this, he plas.
ed upon the stand
Mr.. Miles Owen, of Memphis, Tennessee He
was asked if he knew whether or not Ferris was
slave, when Mr.. kirkpatrick objected, and ap.
penled to the ruling of Judge M'ClurS at The first
trial to show that the defence must prove that ALI
ALBANIA is slave State either by an expert, we'll
authenticated statute establishing slavery in that
State, or some judicial recognition under ths
broad seal Of the State, that slavery exists there.
The Judge answered that We had nothing to do
with Alabama but simply to 6ud oat whether
Ferris was free man or slave.
Mr.. K was saying that Pennsylvania knew nd
such word in her courts as "slaye," when the
Judge cut him short by saying
II have not done speaking yet, If you please.
sir."
Mr.. X. begged pardon, and the judge having
finished speaking and decided the testimony Of
Owen admissible, he proceeded .s-a
The following is the testimony Of Mr.. Owons.
and shows HIM judge of white slaves. He les.
tilted ls.i usf ssdf
knew Ferris in Mississippi. Tennessee andSAi.
ALBANIA I owned him and ! owned his mother
sold Ferris to Geo. o. Ragland. of Alabama
inherited him by marriage, both him and his
mother knew from the public prints and hand.
bills that be had run away; have seen him since
his return to SLAVERY and know him to be the same
man l once owned aR su bio
Cross examined He wss Eve years old wbsn
married my wife ard came in possession of him;
his mother ~as tall fair, straigAtSsi'vd se~ss,