Slave Case

- Pour fiue lookiriL welldreased coloree! men recently called for auppcr at the tavern in Portersville, 33 miles from Pittsburgh. Befo re thoy hadtdonO eat mg, six bioodhounds of slavery came in and bound them band and foot, threatening instant death if tbey resisted. The abolition. Í9t8 gathered togethcr, and aBked wha,tauthority they had for doing these things?- All they could show was an advertisement offering gUOO reward for the upprehension of four runauay siaves, named Alfred,Hudolph, Israel and Es9cx. Two abolitionists went to Prospect village, eix miles distant, to procure a warrant for the arrest of thehounds, as kidnappers. Four of them were arrcsted the next morning, and the six hun- iers, tlieir four prisoners, and about thirty labulitionists, some on horseback, soms; in carriages and (ome on foot, commenced the six miles joorney. The Sijuire decided that tlie airest and confineraent of tho colored men was Ilegal. lo lesa llian a minuto the horrors of iuimediats emancipation vere displayed: thecords t-re removed from their hands and feet, and they were on their return to Porlersville.and are uow underQueen Victoria's proteetiun.. The Squire was of opinión that a clear case of kidnapping could not bemade out againslthe prisoners, ovving totho public marnier in tvhich they had fallen upon their victirns. They were accordmgly dismissed, and they liasleted away from the unpropitious neighborhood, with sliamsand niortification.0LrTho Ciinion (Ohio) Couuty Repubhcan says:- "The existence of sjavery at tlic Capítol of tliis Union is a dainning stain tó our Nas tional esciitcheon.atul sheuld be ipedaway. Tbal m;in wbo vvill support thu exi6lenco of slavery in ide District of Columbio, is un. enemy to fus counlry, her inslitutionp, and a!l mankind." Yel said, Mr Repablican. We likeyotw spirit. Bul do you consider wfiom you are thus eeusuring? Do not the entire Congres sional deleg'ation of your State most emphatically sicpport sl&very n that District?Have any of them ever made a motior for ts abolition? Does ït not exist by thei" sanction from day to day? Did you or did you not vote for and advocate he election of I souie of these "eoemies of their country"? f you support them. khowiog their sentiimcnta, and they 6upport 6lavery at Washington, are not yon aleo "an .enerny toyour ountry? You know that "consistency is a evvel." Do you possess it in this mattei-7