The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-18
,EXTRADITION OF
NECROYSOUCHT.
North Carolina Authorities Max.
ing Effort 10 Deport Negro
From Canada.
APPEAL is MADE TO THE
IMMIGRATION MINISTER
Negro Population of Toronto Is
Demanding That He Be
Allowed 10 Remain.
lax 1h. A,,oelated Prs.,l

TORONTO. ont. Jan. 17.--Time-
yellowed documents OF "slave trade"
days today were being thumbed indus
triously by Canadian officials in their
search for precedent in international
law upon which TO decide the case OF
Matthew Bullock. American negro,
whose deportation on charge of in
citing to riot is demanded by North
Carolina authorities.
In delving into the ancient court
records, the Canadian barristers have
found at least one historical near-par-
allel to the Bullock case-that OF an
American negro slave, ono Anderson,
whose extradition was demanded on
the ground that he had slain his mas
ter, an Ohioian named Diggs.
Bu1locks cause is being pleaded by
Canadian members of his own race,
and by public officials who demand
that the negro be given every advan-
tage of the immigration laws and the
international courts, in order that Cam
ada may continue his haven from
North Carolina authorities. Ander-
sons case was pleaded by Abraham
Lincoln, then president OF the United
states, and by British aboiitionists,
who based their defense OF the negro
on the ground that mo slave can re-
main one when he touches British
soil"
In 1882 American authorities de-
manded Andersons extradition on the
ground that he escaped from bondage
In ohio and, when about TO be recap
tured, had murdered his master. Diggs.
When the negro was caught in Can
ada the old fugitive slave law" still
was i'm effect. But the ashes of the
British abolition agitation were still
hot. and sentiment In favor OF the ne
nro's claim to Canada as a haven Of
refuge ran strong.
Then President Lincoln signed the
emancipation proclamation striking of
the shacixlos q all American slaves. But
although IL strengthened British senti-
ment in favor OF Anderson. President
Iincoln's act did not affect the Ash
Burton treaty OF 1ss2 under which Great
Britain. including Canada agreed with
the United States 20 surrender reciprocal
" an persons charged with grave non
political offenses. IL was under this
treaty that American officials pressed
their demands for Anderson's extradi-
tion.
Preliminary trial OF Anderson was held
at Toronto. Two OF the three justices
decided against him and eventually the
trial was carried TO England on an ap-
peal.
Here the abolitionists stepped in with
their plea that mo slave remains one
when he touches British SOIL. and An
derson was set free.
Canadian officials do not believe that
the Anderson case viii govern the out
come of the proceedings against Bullock,
although they point to 1t as another not
able instance where all the resources Of
British law, combined with a wave of
public sentiment, were invoked by the
spectacle OF an American negro seeking
haven i'm the land across the border.
Bullock was arrested at Hamilton. on
tarlo, charged with having instigated a
riot in North Carolina, alleged by Amer
lean officials to have crossed the border
IN March. 1921, to evadA trial, he already
has been examined by the immigration
officer at Hamilton and ordered deported,
hut has appealed to the minister of inn
migration.
In the meantime the negro population
of Toronto IN demanding that Bullock be
to remain In Canada and former
Mayor Church Of Toronto has wired
Premier King not TO allow the negro to
he ''railroaded" out Of the country with
out fair trial