Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-16
Prom the Missouri Democrat.
THE DOY TRIAL.

ST. JosEfi, Mo-, June ~, soy.
The boy trial is closed, and DR.. J bn boy found
guilty, and sentenced to FIVE years in the pen;ton-
tiary. To say that such q finding OF The jury is
an Outrage, and in open violation OF the evidence
in the case, is only q mild expression of the feel
irgs Of every unprecedented and right-mindod man
who attended the former or the present trial.
The following I clip from tho Journal of this
city:
1.-THE State had from the Court an instruction
which it had not at the previous trial. 1t was in
that the jury might infer guilt from cir
This, together with Dogs confess
sion while imprisoned in Weston, to wit: 1ha,
he believed that he was serving both the laws of
God and his country when engaged in assisting
slaves in making their escape from their masters,
and that be had been engaged in The business be-
fore, and If acquitted he would engage in it again
with more energy than ever, also a memoranda of
a survey for an u. G.. Il. r., found on his per-
son, and other circumstances elected from witues-
ses when coming into conjunction with thu above
instances, was considered too strong eEidence for
the jury to find a verdict of a~cqui,tal.
I'VE learn, however, that q lapse of thirty
days will take place before the sentence will be pu,
NN'''b ObiNb ilnc IL DTl6OneT
will. probably, make an attempt to have the deci-
sion reversed by tho Supreme Court"
The testimony is, in amount, the samo, only
Mayor Wood was present. His testimony was
more favorable than his ~statemen, read before
Yet, the Judge makes the above new ruling and
here, permit me to say, that while | denounce the
above new instruction of the Judge, | will say
that all his decisions, instructions and rulings be-
fore, were strictly impartial. The belief of boy,
and his statements Of what he had done and would
do, made use of to convict him, we're given az tes-
timony by a man who. in the honest belief of all
the reporters in the former trial; perjured himself
he only being able to remember parts of what
boy said and all those portions Of Doy's remarks
strongly against him. AT this trial he was conve-
niently absent, and his testimony, as printed in
one OF the newspapers, used the version used be-
ing meagre and not showing his many inconsis-
tencies and contradictions. l think the counsel
for the defense made an error in agreeing to re-
ceive the report Of his testimony, as offered for
none Of the evidence was taken down BY a thor
ougbly skilled reporter.
The memoranda" spoken of in the above ex-
tract, was not proven to be Dogs, nor was there
anything in it that should properly have inAuen-
ced a jury.
The charge against Dr.. boy was, that he entic-
ed the slave Dick from the state of Missouri. The
evidence failed to show that DR., boy was erer in the
state of Missouri while it conclusively proved
that the boy Dick left Missouri 10Th a pass from
os master, allowing him to do SO, and that Jno.
boy never saw him until after he reached Law
renee.
Further comment 10 unnecessary the whole
transaction is o libel upon the freedom of an
American citizen; in open violation of justice, and
only paralleled by the English state trials in Ire
land.
If the Supreme Court Of Missouri does no
grant a new trial, they deserve the execIation O
every honest heart and unprejudiced man, but
cannot think the highest court of any State could
DO guilty of 80 great injustice as to refuse a new
trial, with the features Of this case fairly before
them.
Had the same force Of reporters been present in
the court room, as on the former trial, / do not be-
lieve he would have been convicted, nor that the
judge would have granted the new instruction.
But we oil felt confident that he would be &C
Quilted, as there was less excitement than before.
The result plainly shows that oven slavery, in
her strongholds, fears the free press
of the country.
The citizens of Kansas feel justly indignant,
and if boy goes to Jefferson City, slave property
on the border will be more unsafe than ever. This
trial, if adverse in lite results, will breed more
Underground Railroads than the mere sight OF
slavery could in ten years. The river here is high,
and lie rising slowly. Yours, 4.