The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-27

with e certain duties and rishfsi with
reference TO which II is supposed 10 te
entered into; but these are nee seBarily
inoomoatible with the nature OF slavery,
as the one cannot be discharged nor the
other be recognized without doing vio-
lence 10 the rights Of the owner In ev-
cry State where slavery exists, and the
question has been presented, II has so
been decided.
"lf the father and mother, being
slaves, are freed by the masters will, and
the father afterwards acquires property
The children cannot inherit his property.
"As necessary consequence tescheats
20 the State"
The marriage, then, Of slaves is mere
idle ceremony. Their children are ille-
ultimate, and have no rights, and even
freedom puts their ofspriDg In no better
condition.
No wonder, then, that we find such de-
cisions as the following
Alfred Va. The State Is George, 81
Mississippi Reports) in which it was
ruled that "adultery with q slaves wife
is no defence 20 a charge Of murder, and
that a slave indicted for the murder oil
bis oyerseer Introduce, as evidence
for his defence, upon trial for murder
in the first degree, the fact that the de-
ceased, a few hours before the killing,
bad forced the prisoners wife TO submit
TO his embraces, and that this had been
communicated 10 the prisoner before the
killing"
TRANSCRIPTION PROHIBITED.
Look, for instance, at the celebrated
Brasealle case, often cited, and reported
in "a Howard, Mississippi Reports, 937
There Elisha Braseslle, planter in Mis-
sissippi, was faithfully and successfully
nursed by a mulatto slave during a
dangerous and proracted illness. lie
afterwards took her 70 Ohio, had her
educated, and finally married her, having
first omaucipated her, by deed recorded
in OliO and Mississippi. lie returned
with her to the lAttr State, where she
gave birth 10 son. Up MIR. Braseslles
death his will was found, ia which he
ratified the deed of emancipation, and
devised all his property TO TINS son, whom
he acknowledged to be such. The will,
however, was successfully contested as
to the validity of the emancipation and
devise to he son, by some distant rels.
tons Of the tes'ator in North Carolina
Toe Judge, (Sharkey) in his opinion,
uses his language The state Of the
CAGE shows concluslvely that the contract
had lie origin In an offence ag Einst MR.
ality, perniciOus and detestable as an
example But, abOye all, 1t seems to have
been planned and executed with fixed
design to evade the rigor of the laws OF
this state. The acts of the part in
going TO OHIO with the slaves, and lAere
executing the deed, and his inla4cdiate
return with them to this State, point with
unerring certainty TO his purpose and
object. The laws of this state cannot
be thus defrauded of their operation by
one of our own oitizsns."
This meTciful judge gave no quarter To
the slaves. No time was Afforded TO APP
| ply TO the Legislature to sanction the
emancipation, but the greedy North
| Carolinians took the whole of the estate
and the mother and son were decreed, il
the language of the judge, "stiH slave
and part Of The estate OF Elisha BraSealie.'
Gan those who believe in an everything
and Ayenging Providence, wonder that q
nation which tolerates aud maintains
such iBiquity is devastated and scourged
by civil war