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Slave Case

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
October
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wc cut the following from the Chemung Whig, an onti-abolition paper of New York. A Slave Case. - There was a tremendous excitement in Albany, on Thursday last in consequence of the arrest of a sla ve, by her master. She was tried on Fridny,before Judge HiJton, who decided that she was at liberty to return with her niaster or remain at the North - in other words she was FREE. It is hnrdly necessary to add, that she determined to remain at the North. The Journal says she was cheered by a host of people, on leaving jail. The ground upon which this decisión was made. was that her master brought hertoihis state, and therefore she could not be considered a fugitivo from nnntUr toto, anA thai m consequence she was free. Thus has New York decided that Southrcns who travel with their slaves in this state, that their slaves are no longer slaves- but FREEMEN! No Slavery can exist in the 3tate of N. York. Hurrah, - a long and loud "Hurrah for the Iionie of the FREE and the land of the Brave."Qr" The correspondent of the Bangor Gazette writes frorn Balthnore, Sept. 2: This city at the present time is probably the mostinteresting spot in the United States, in relation to the great subject of slavery, and lts connecced - for I cnnnot say kindred - topios of colonization, aboliiion, and po on.- While our norlhem dough-faees are foldinf their hands and doing nothing, your great principies are silently but powcrfully infusing themselves int o the mass of the people here". Their minds are beginning to thmk, and their consciences to rebuke them. Siuce my last letter, on July 4th, some eventful moveoients have taken place. An inflnential methodist in conversalion with one of our editors, told him that the iden of cmancipation was becoming a popular one in this city and State! I told yon that the slave laws wcre becoming a dead letter. Now for the proof. Any person who spreads incendiary documents among the people of this State, is üable to go to the Peni'entiary for eighteen years. Wel], in spite of this insulting, audacious and despotic law, nbolition documents come into this State, from the North, and are read by the. people with eagerness. 'J'his has been the c.ise for the last seven vears, to my own personal knowledge. Again. Our owr. press teems weekly with genuine anti -slavery matter, and the people swallow it all down quietly."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News