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New Jersey Slave Case

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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We are sorry to leárn tiiat the jddges of the New Jersey Supreme Court have decided the great' case Which we haVc lleretofore mentionedi in which Alvan'SteWart made á powérful eflbrt, agninsi Liberty, thereby cohfirming-the law of Slavery as it existed prior to the new cbhstitution of 1844. The decisión waá cohtrolled' by Assodate Judges Ñevinsy Carpcntcr and Kandolph- the Chief Justice dissenííing.Anotherset of Judges would havedecided difieren ily- so the decisión only shovs the átale of the public nvind: in that quarler. The judges acknowledged ihaf tfite sanre points liad been decided differently in Massachusetts añj Virginia- nnd so, with adverse precederfts, they chose,doughface like, to' yield to the claims and practico of the south. Nothing at all was deemed due to the spirit of freedorn and humanity! - Ohio American. 05== The Southern patriarchs linvc a world of trouble with their property which runs away whenever it takes a notion, and, "astonishing to say - "without any provocalion" The Port Tobasco Tirnes thus laments over the state of things existing in its vic'nity:"Lost Saturday niglu or early Sunday mol'ning, some seventy or eighty, ai.d norhnps more, as it is irrtpössible to ascertain the correct numbcr, negroès absconded from ihis vicinity, They went without any provocation, and on the part of their ownefs, the least suspicion. - Thero is, from what We leafn, not the leat doubt but this move has been sometime breking, and it appeafs up to the time of some of them lea ving their masers' ptemises on Suturdny afternoon, (heir usual iiolidny- Mlicy had not the remotest idea of running away at the time they did. A. gentlnmnfi residing about six miles from tliis villagc, hnd every necro on his place except two of the gang. This is the second gang llint ha lelt this couUty wilhin a few weeks, nhd we fear if some mode is not fallen upon to put n Btop o it, our pïnnters will have a begcarly number to gather their crops.- There seems to be a sfrange dttd singular spirit come over this portion of out population of late."We are somewhfít ctfi'ious to knaw tvlmt "mode wilt líe fallen upoti to ptft a Stop to" this modo oí" emigration. The losscs of these modern Abrahams aftf considerable- say eiííty ncgroes nt once, al $700=!5(í,OOa. Supposc halfofthem (o been re-captured n Mííryland, slill léav íí loss of 28,000, bcsides the one vho sió bo liung for snnppiug his plstol, níid eight tthtf were bndly oündecí. A few more Saturdny's work liktí th!s, and the 'entlciríen oí ïhat vieimty may strip off their and da tlíelf otf H harvesting.07a Wc lcarn from the A. S. Standard, .that after Jonallian Walker had been imprisoned nearly eleven months, most of which time he was heavíly iroïïed, put in the pülory.fmed,& brrnnded nthe right hand, public sentiment set in íavorably to him, and on trial under flio socond inictment for "stcnling" three slaves, allt.ougl) fuund guilty, be was fined but $5,0J) for each slavo. The United States Jiarj&aH ivho brandcd Walker was namei Eleaezer Dorr, and is a nat ve of iMaiue. Walker is about to pubüsh íi naa-aie-f Utu captivity among these Anwieao Acerinas. The sla ves who wei esHüifed wkU Walker we re return? ed tcilveir naa&iem. Oue of them was aftenro-ríí .wspricoaed on a charge oí iheft, and to eseape to vengeance of iiis roaster, iye eGKK&'uted sicide.Uoix. Chas;. Miner,' Whig M. C. from Fennsylvaciïu M&s writieo a leíter lo someboóy, iryingio -sHor tlte Whigs that there s a great .SL-uve Pover at ílie Soul !i ivhieh has posseseian f tüe Presideiicy, and disposes of 'ti at ïts pleasore. He refera to prospeetive noeiination of Silas Wrígbt by i-lie Democrate, and declares he eannol escape Üie general ostracism of Northern mea. We commend the foliowiog paragraph to those Whig, papers tvhoinlend to have Judge McLean for their catididate. tf we can believc JVIr. Miner, Mr. McLean canflot hope to be more successful than the other Northern caudidates have been. We are glad lo see the Whigs wnking up to the ascendency of the Slave Power. One more defeat will convince every skeptic among Ihem of its predomina ieeu"Let no Northern gentleman, whose star mrxy now appear to be ascending to the zenith, fondly imagino that tlie sun will stand still n Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of Ajaion to ligltt bioi to victory. If Sergeant Tilgham and lngersoll- King and Clinton, Hunttngton, Ellsworth, Wolcott, the Adams, ötis, and Webster, Woodbury, Van Buren, BtU chañan and Cass, and other distinguished men of the North, were unable to bear up against this under current, let no one now hopo ta be more euecessful."Qr Mr. Shnnalitin, of Casa County, bns wrilten a leticr to Senator Portcr to know il he will becomo the Whig candkïato for Gov ernor. Mr. P. declines the lionor in favor of somc other VVhig to whoir. ho eays it is by far more eminenlly due. Ainong other things, ■the Senator says: "That ihis couloat will resolt trinmphantly to the Wliigs, Í ennnot permit myself to doubt." A ?ood deal raay depend tipon the inouning to beaitached to the word 'triuniphuntly. ' (ET The Marshall Statesinan is out for Jogcph II. Williams of St. Joseph, for Whig candidatc for Governoi'. He was ihe tost Whig candidaic for Coiigrces in the S'ecyud.

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