The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 2

esire to call Be of long patiently in who bring from anger in any wise self deny A re not these the hateful features of slavery lf the slave should marry while you Your greatly mul en in godly to Hirn who and it is putting the child in a way to reciprocate kindness when perhaps the infirmi ties of age may render parents incapable of pro viding for themselves ftUThere are already some notable instances of the advantages of such a course one of which I cannot well forbear mentioning for your encour agemenuQlsaac Glasgow a colored gentle man was put when a lad to a scythe maker and blackeniilha kind man in Smithfield I Here he served aMailhful which he once observed tonne laying his hand upon his breast had bedti a great satisfaction to him to the present time7 He became an excellent work and at1 the expiration "ofhis apprenticeship commanded high and being prudent of his earnings soon found himself iu a situation to marry land to set up business for himselfl He purchased a valuabla water privilegefin Griswold Ct where he has built several housesand for manyyears carried outhe axe and scythe making business and of later time the making of implements for the whale fishery has sustained a good moral character wherever known and is particularly noted for his punctu ality in fulfilling his contracts He lives in good style has reared up a respectable family of chil dren his worthy wife taking a conspicuous part in the management of them and of the household concerns Two' of his daughters exemplary young women were scholars at the noted Can terbury school! He is possessed of a handsome property and his business is still in successful op rat ion Besides his forges he has a valuable grist mill with two runs of stones a saw mill turning shop and wheelwright and employs a number of men and "apprentices through the year And in these arduous employments no ar dent spirits are used He is now about sixty years of age enjoys good health! is comely and Engaging in his person and manners and a be liever in the Christian religion I have partakbn several'times of the bounty of his have lodged under his roof where neatness kindnass and hospitality wore agreeably combined Now go ye dear people and do likewise with your children and may the benedictions of heaven rest on you and on them ROWLAND GREENE PLAINIELD Ct' that case MrsHoward a resident in the Island of sachusetts if persuasion should fail by the cogent aid vuoa and the supposed owner of the boy rancisco of the whip or bv her return tn the writ PYnrneclv ir wx uiwVkllUlvU nvna IQUlvI I Vi BIwTUl il Via" DIM" a BlftvUill III Ing him aaa slave The boyOirVcing examined by here he must of course be separated from 'tho wife DECISION JUDGE SHAW As we understand this case we see nothing to irritate or alarm the South Nearly all perhaps all tire free States hove Jaws which prohibit a from carrying his slave into the Statehnd there retaining it as property Snch laws are nql only admissible but proper and necessary in States that do not tolerate slavery If southern ers could remove into Indiana and carry their ne groes with them and hold them under the laws of the United States as property by merely profess ing to be citizens of South Carolina or Georgia how couldlthe Legislature of Indiana prevent that State froui becoming in time a slave State? But the constitution or lawsof the United States will not justify afoouthern man in acting thus and we are therefore unable tn perceiye why the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has been so bitterly and harshly condemned If the institution of slavery in the South is too sacred to be discussed it seems to us there can be no harm in considering the constitution and local laws of the free States too sacred to be openly violated Loufonfo (Ky) Adv I DECISIVE ACTION To the Editor of the Liberator Dear Sir The churchy of Christ the freed men of the Lord' have too long slumbered over the sin of slavery The church is comparatively awake to the welfare of the heathen fa away while the death groans of the slave are but a re posing lullaby 5 Many a minister many young men and many churches are sighing over the distant fields of idolatry and superstition whose hearts have nev er been touched by theft heaven piercing cry of the benighted and lacerated bondman God for bid that I should utter a word to suppress the sympathies and liberalities of any toward the hea then But I hesitate not a rnoment to say that that individual who'longs and pants for some dis tant Burman or Siam station forgetful and ne glectful of the miseries of home possesses false zeal If there is a seed plat for gospel enterprise under heaven it is in Christian America If tlfere is a neglected and abused people on the globe they are to be found in the Indian and the slave The one thrust far away bylaw the other thrust underfoot by law the one cheated and legally robbed of every civil right the other stolen legally chained sold whipped and incar cerated in a moral sepulchre And every effort which conveys any promise of efficiency in reliev ing the slave from bis bondage is looked upon even by the church withi a most suspicious eye But that is not the worst There are not a few even of the professed teachers in Israel who claim the sanction of the Bible for the inhuman system of slavery Bad as slavery is there is something in such a plea more grossly outrageous to every feeling of a tender lieart than slavery What! men fend brethren that religion Avliich is the very breath of mercy is the devel opement of perfect love which proclaims peace on earth which reconciles man to man as well as man to God this religion affords thesanction of its approval to the vilest form which oppression has ever assumed and the direst evils which av arice and cruelty combined have ever inflicted Were an angel to make such a statement I should know he was a spirit from hell and unhesitating ly pronounce it i avfabrication of father of and suspect the utterer oftbeing ed into an angel of the better to Jbetray and deceive our souls A The churches can nd longer be innocent in su pine indifference' We are Christians in we must appear so in truth How selfish are our principles how distant from the benevolence of Christianity if we can be at ease when millions of our neighbors are despoiled of every hope of present and future blessedness must the curse of millions rest I longer on the churches of the saints'? Dear sir: I am directed by the church of which I tun paster to send you the Report oftheir com mittee on the subject of slavery which has been presented and harmoniously accepted and re quest for it an insertion in the Liberator It runs as follows A ''i: Dear Brethren and Sisters Your Committee appointed to prepare and present resolutions on the subject of slavery Report: 'That in our opinion the spirit of the goApel as inculcated by our Saviour Jesus Christ and his Apostles in no sense inculcates or justifies the enslaving of our fellofv beings but contrariwise marks it as a sin ofthe most flagrant epormity classing slave holders in the catalogue of the vilest criminals and denouncing them with the severest reproba Therefore recommend to consideration and adoption the fallowing Resolu tions 5 Resolved That the buying selling and hold ing human beings in bondage for the sake of gain or the giving or bequeathing of slaves to child ren or others as property is a vile infraction of the natural religious and inalienable rights of man Resolved That the great law of Christian kindness enjoining upon lis not to suffer in any wise sin to rest on a brother butto rebuke and restore him in the spirit of meekness calls upon us not tp seal our lips in silence for fear of of fending those on whom this crime is chargeable but affectionately and plainly to admonish and re buke them 1 1 Resolved That all ministers and church members who hold human beings inslavery arc in on opin ion unworthy of a place in the church of Christ and that we cannot injustice tooursense of Chris tian duty and obligation extend to them the hand4 fellowship as good minislerssahd worthy mem bers Resolved That while we will ever endeavor to cherish for our brethren who hold property ip human flesh the spirit of love and the spirit of prayer still we 'cannot lawfully or conscientious ly communicate with Ihemat the table of our gra cious Lord who died to' redeem souls of every kindred and tongue and people and nation in whom all the kindreds of the earth are blessed and in whom is neither Jew nor Greek Bar barian Scythian bond nor free? Resolved That for church members to endeav or to exclude colored persons from an? equal seal in the house of God or at the communion table 1 C'(5M A TO THE RIENDS Till? SLAVE 'Tfiertime is near at hanCwbea tb4 'citizens of Massac hqse its will be called upon to exercise their constitutional privilege ip an election the Electors 'ofPresident a Governor members of Coiigress anJ members of le'SlateLegislature' are to bexhosifn abolitionists no in' the results of this election A ''A The members of Congress who may be chosen will be called upon to act upon! the subject ot Sla very in the District of Columbia4 isj it not then all importaut that they should fe true and impar tial friends of Liberty Will it not be the ex treme of folly fur abolitionists to givd their vote to jnen kqown to be thoroughly opposed to' their wishes sending them to Congress with petitions in their pockets and only anxious to get rid of them as easily as possible A mockery like this might be' kept up until day and not a shackle of the captive be loosened by legislation and the maw market at I the shamblfJ for human flesh in the city of lhe Uqited States continue to beas itnow is the foulest abomination on the soil of Christen dom I A Governor is to be chosen And ire the opin ions and practice of this officer of no donscquence to abolitionists I 1 Demands have already been mace upon the Governor of a free State to deliver up a citizen of that State to the authorities of another as a criminal for denying the right of holding proper ly in man 1 Is therd no danger that demands lite this may find favor in the eyes of a Governor of Massa chusetts Gov Everett in his of last winter quoted against the abolitionists the opinion of William Sullivan that their discussion of the su iject of slavery was a misdemeanor lia ble to be prosecuted at common law the same legal authority thus endorsed for by Gov Everett has gravely argued in favor of the right of the Southern States to demand the abo litionists of Massachusetts and maintained that it would bejthe duty of our Governor to deliver them up to without benefit of cler for the crime of believing Iwith the Bible and the Declaration of Independence that 'all men are created equal? i Doos our present Chief this opinion also? i Again Representatives and Senators of the Commonwealth ape to be elected I Last year an attempt was made id our Legis lature to jpass censure upon the friends of ree Discussion It failed indeed4 but lhere was a strong minority in favor of it As wp value ree Discussion and a ree Press we mtist see to it that we send honest friends of constitutional free dom to represent us Let the question be put to every candidate i Are' you for gag yea pit nay Let no abolitionist yield himself body and soul to the dirty work of party Let hirri shake him self free every thing which shackjes bis inde pendence in this matter Responsible to his con science ulnd his God only let him remember at the his own rights in jeopardy and the claims ofj the oppressed and plundered slave MERRIMACK Here is the old familiar process of the slave trader all the learned ingenuity couldhot shew an English or a Massachusetts Court how to adopt the relation without adopting its most abhorrent consequences And the reason of this is Slavery is an abuse It is not a thing to be reformed or regulated Take away its incidents of oppression and baseness nnd it is all gone So (ar as it exists at all it exists JorAviL told that ho prac tical evil is'found'to occur iu'Ncw 'York or Pennsyl vania froitLailowIng temporaryrcxistence to slavery in the case of sojourners Having no evidence ie i ford us' on this point we can only form ad a 'priori judgment I do notdoubt that groat that irreparable evil occurs wherever slavery is tolerated be it for a century or for a and I conceive1 this be the doctrine of Massachusetts We hear no complaints it is said from those States True neitherdot we jbear any complaints against slavery from Georgia or Louisiana Evil tnay be tbeirgood Supposed pecu niary advantages may with them outwcigh'imoral pnes 'J judge them not It is enough to say that as a sovereign State Massachusetts does not borrow her views of slavery 'from States that may deem it right or pleasant or profitable to allow it i 'The condition of a Louisiana slave held as such in Massachusetts Is anomalous Wc have no common law to regulate it My learned brotherhas laid down the principle that it will be the province of the judi cial tribunals and not of the Legislature to do this What then are to be the rightsand duties of this very peculiarjiiember of oursociety Can he make a con tract? Will you give effect to his marriage Or shall it be void i and his children illegitimate? Are the children of the slave mother born here to also slaves? Or vififl tbeir father if he should be a free citizen of Massachusetts be entitled to his'own chil If the slave see a crime committed by i his master shall he be admitted as a witness? Alas for the slave ifi ha testify against his master The ex clusion of slave testimony is an indispensable part ot the institution of slavery If a slave in Massachu setts is slandered has he a remedy Is his character his own If he is assaulted by a stranger has be his action as a person or it with the master as for an injury to property Shall "there be any protection for the slave against bls master? May the inasterbe bound jo keep the peace towards him Probably not forjn the case of an adult the utmost violence might be necessary to compel submission There can be no divorce between Such parties for cruelty no cancel ation of indentures for abuse of authority A slave has nd civil rights Even to maim or murder him is onlv ah offence against Government: and is punished on the same principle that we forbid cruelty to brutes for their sakes but ior our own If the slave refuse to leave the' State how shall he be compelled Will you justify an assault and battery upon' him Suppose he kill his master in self defence is Lis crime murder How far will this Court go in giving validity to contracts for tbe hiring or sale of slaves here Jf one stranger sells to another the slave be has brought with him and does not deliver him will you sustain trover for a human being Or silting as a Cdurt di Equity will you enforce specific perform ance of a contract for the aleot a follow creattiro thus making the Supreme Court an instrument in the domestic slave trale Those consequences seem indeed revolting but they are in character with the system to which they belong 7 I have thus endeavored to show that the extension ol slavery here is unlawful and inexpedient It iscause for the sincerest gratification to reflect that this question impoitant to our whole country is to be left in the handsiof thot judiciary of Massachusetts The eloquent encomium of Sir William Best on the Courts ofhis own country will not'be thought inap plicable hero by the fiiends of freedom looking as they will with anxious hope to the decision ol this tribunal It is matter of says that eminent judge for me to recollect that whilst economists and polili cians were recommending to the Legislature the pro tection of this traffic and senators were framing laws for its promotion and declaring ita benefit to the coun try the judges of the land above the age In which they lived standing upon the high ground of natural right and disdaining to bend to the lowerdoctrine of expediency declared that Slavery was inconsistent with the genius oTthe English Constitution and that human beings could not be the subject matter of prop erty As aiiawyerU speak of that early determina tion when a different doctrine was prevailing in the Senate with a considerable degree of professional (1) The generous boast of the English poet haunts the memory of every lover of liberty 1 Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air that moment they are free They toueh our country aud their shackles fall noble and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing This 'exalted pride cannot be fully ours We have sold it for a price The fugitive from' slavery is hunted like a felon through this favored State Let us stop there Let not the accursed system thrive among us If we are to be restrained from attacking the giant trunk if we have even consented to let a single bough shoot over among us to taint our air I trust by the blessing of Heaven we have yet strength and ivirtue enough to lop its God forbid that the deadly branches should bend over and strike root to become in their turn a parent stock growing up in the soil of Massachusetts (1) orbes Cochrane 2 Barn Cr 470 AN ADDRESS To the ree People of Color in JVetp England and other free Slates in America It tarGt TKu kieaus You are itot generally uninformed of the Christian efforts in operation for the emancipation of the people qf color "both in America and other nations andjfor the edu cation arid improvement of those vho are free butjabortng more or less under the disadvanta ges impoised by adeep rooted and unwarrantable prejudice and that based originally on the degra dation incident to slavery and subsequently on colorvasjslaves are generally oif thafi caste i I do mbst heartily desire success tojthose efforts that justice may be meted to you This desire isf abroad in the land as witness the in creasinir! thousands whose hearts are deeply en gaged and hands nt work on your behalf espe cially regarding those in bondage As you improve in respectability a id condition you not secure to yourselves many bless ings aqd among them a goojd name which is better than great but you bedome through this moia) character a powerful auxiliary in breaking the chains of that inveterate bondage by which millions our (brethren are held in low degradation and extreme wretchedness Therefore dear friends exert yourselves to im prove your seek the Lord And his king dom "and earnestly embrace every opportunity to attain a useful education Be industrious be courteous and crcfullof your per sonal for I the ptirity mind Receives a secret sympathetic and they are contremal to each other forbearance it is an attribute of the gracious Cre ator utest in the Lioru ana wait him ret not thyself because of hi eth wicked devices to pass Ceasi and forsake wrath fret not thyself to ao evil' 1 nus you will become mg people and learn to place your tope and de pendence on Him who is mighty toredeem and who never said to the wrestling seed of Jacob ye my in vain and without whose notice a sparrow falleth not to the ground An auspicious day is opening to friends and christian advocatesihave tiplied yvithin very few years the signs of the times are in your favor uentre tr: humilitir of mind and in thankfulnesi can rule the hearts of men and ordqr their steps Improve the day and the opportunity And permit me my fellow citizens to suggest to you the propriety of placing your cirildren as they arfive at suitable ages in situations where they may become useful and guarded against the temptations attendant on a life qf idleness where your soils may become respectable mechanics mer chants physicians and farmers and your daughters instructed in good housewifery and in the arts pe culiar tb the femalO character and where some of both sexes may be educated asj teachers of schools! I a apprised that tljie opportuni ties of procuring such situations haye been rare but the iscene in that respect is changing and it is greatly to be desired that lyou who'are pa rents of chilkren may not be reluctkntin so dis posing of them "They will find in Irn'ariy instan ces gojod encouragement and kinil benefactors Plicing them nt good trades and where they may improv'd in education is doing them a great kind ness and may be the means of preserving them from oss of character and from pursuing too exclusively a sea faring life where morality a nd the fear of the Lord which ptjesenres from the snares pf death are lamentably lowand where the probability under present! circumstances of colored youth rising into respectability is small mueeua I must recent mv affectionate your attention seriously to the Subject of placing your children where their minds and habits may be guarded and improved iff you have not the means (within your own families an where they may learn some useful employment It is not easy tri conceive of a greater iact of kindness to J' I r' on accounfof color is sinful and ought to be itn mediately repented of I Resolved That it is our bounden duty to make the cause of the oppressed slave a subject of spe cial request at the Throne of Grace All jf which is respectfully and ISAAC SAWYER Jb Chairman South Reading Sept 2C 1836 Editors friendly to human rights are requested 'v'l h' BAPTIST ASSOCIATION Ell worth Me Sept 28 J836 To the Editor ofthe Liberator Baptist Association of this State held its second anniversary in Ellsworth on Wed nesday'and Thursday the 7th and Sth inst' Br Gillpatrick NutteAind myself were" ajppomlied a Committee on the subject of slaveryVe presented the following was unanimously adopted 5 1 The Committee oij Slavery in presenting their rpport begleave to state that it would not be prop qr for themvpn this occasionto say even part of wha( miglt bp said on this important sub jict Expressing themselves in concise they would say Of all the systems of ini quity thatever cursed the world in their the slave system is the most abominable 'It is the enslavement of the the noblest workmanshipof Deity on the debasement I of the the imbrutement of the intellects the blottings of Image in the qouls of those who are clothed with the deathless attributes of immortality Jt is a daring infringe ment of human rights and an unblushing viola tion of all the precepts in the It is in a word the master piece of Satan involving all that is oppressive in tyranny shocking in cru dity in in ignorance and loathsome in licentiousness And this foul system existing as it does inalf Jts horrors in this oiir Republic is crying sin and a massy bar to the universafspread of religion in our country Your Committee would therefore submit the following resolutions: Lt 11 Resolved That the only proper remedy for this appalling evil is Immediate Emancipation 2 Resolved That while we deprecate all phys ical interference in relation to this subject it is our imperious duty as patriots philanthropists and Christians to exert a strong moral influence in order to give a speedy practical devclopement to the principlestated in thc first resolution I 3 Resolved That so long as any of our fellow creatures remain in bondage we will not cease toiray for thenTfand sympathize with them in their1' down trodden and Ungraded condition 5 i 4 That wo as the professed follows ers of Jesus Christ have no fellowship or coni ft munion with thoset who under the character of Christians continue to hold their fellow men in bondage Gillpatrick Chairman The following resolutions were passed by thp Washington Association whichheld' its last week at Steuben 1 Resolved That slavery especially as it ex ists this country like all othet sins is an evil lot to be mitigated but immediately abandoned' 2' Resolved' That while this evil exists' it ishe imperious duty of all Christians most fervent? and perseveringly to pray that God would sua tain the oppressed and speedily work out for Ithem peaceful and entire deliverance 3 Resolved That as christians we can havev no fellowship' with those a fter being duly ienlightened'on this subject still advocate and practice its abominations' and thus defle' tho ihurchofGod E'W' Garrison Chairman I am dear cousin 5 M' Yours 7 GARRISON NEW IIAMPSIIlilE' ASSOCIATION Derrt Sept 21 J836 Mr Garrison I attended 'the meeting of itlie IL Association' a few weeks sinceatEx leter and although you have probably heard of the general proceedings" still I will mention ai few things which occurred worthy of observa1's xion rr jjffThq mectifigs were generally of an interesting iriature 'as one subject after another 'was brought forward and discussed by men of wisdom and But most of the were careful to introduce no new or exciting subject Jest they should disturb'the slumbersfvof some who? hear ing nothing new thought it fit timeto dote a way the dulness and stupidity occasioned by A ride Among the number however One there was above all others! AVho eli deserves the name of friend L' friend to bis country to his fellow creatures and itoliis God who openly asserted that among the ffiumerous societiesf formed to promote the happi jiiess and cterfftd welfare of the various classes of men Slavery Society with the rest shar ed in his affection patronage and prayers It waBthe devoted Mr' Root At this expression of hisviews the looks ofvsome were kindled into be nevolence while others sat and frowned The Idrowsy awoke from their slumbers and gazings (wondered what had happened that excited soft much attention 1 During one of the intermissions''as I was walk ing in the street my attention ft was "arrested by noticing a little crowdstanding in the shade of a small tree On walkings up 1 observed in the midst of the crowd two individuals engaged in earnest conversation i'On iriquiry I found one of them was the energetic advocate of liberty Mr! Weld the other was a slaveholding minister of South Carolina 4 Thesubject of debate was not? whether it was wrong man created in the image of but whether it was 'wrong for? the north to speaker act against the system of southern slavery 1 listened with attention to hear his supposing that as he was a minis ter of the gospel he would try at least to give satisfactory reasons why such interference (as he called it) should not take place But the only reason which he advanced was this The north has helped to make laws' justifying and now the north has nabusiness to interfere You may easily conceive that brother Weld would find no difficulty in rendering such a reason ridic ulous to all who heard it and this he did to the great mortification of the Clerical He could not endure it and refused to discuss the subject thus publicly saying if he must discuaa if at all he would do it privately with Mr Weld Thinks I to myself he wish to be pri vate about a public matter 'Alas unhappy man His arguments so futile and met such' sad disaster that he probably thought the fewer who heard them the better Brother Stanton was present at the same time but he had no occasion to interfere as the' cause was in good hands These advocates erf liberty were hot permitted to lift up their voices in the congregation but as pioneers in a holy cause they were busy among the scattered ranks of the faithful exhorting them' to go forward to 4 glorious victory The1 streets and lanes and cooling shades witnessed theirdevotion to the cause although altars and5 pulpitswere them and hundreds obtained cour age to run the dangerous yet delightful course of dear bought liberty i Yours with GILBERT PILLSBURY wy Vli VVIUX VAAMIIMVM 'Ji the Judge privately ex pressed hie desire to go with Mrs Howard The Chief Justice decided that tbJ boy rntgh do as he chose saying in his opinion Mrs Howard in her return to the writ had claimed the boy as a slave I should have ordered him to oq discharged from her custody The boy by the lau of Massachusetts is in fact The author of The Conflict of touches on this very point Referring tb case het 1 AS oon SI BiaVC laliUJ lli lit! cones tpso facto a freeman anti dischargedjrotn the state of servitude Independent of the prdvlsions'ol the Constitution of the United States for the protec tion of the rights of masters in respect to domestic fugitive slaves there is no doubt that the same prin ciple pervades the common law of the non slavehold Hng States in (1) A case decided in Indiana' by Judge Morris arid! reported in the Jurist has been cited by tho counsel formic respondent as having a bearing advene to the petitioner claim The decisions in jbe Indiana Courts arq rarely referred to here And I niay add without intentional disrespect that have been una hie to ascertain who Judge Morris is The case there was decided as appears in favor ofthe freedom of the slaves The remarks of the Judge relied on by ray learned brother were not called for by the cir cuiistances of the case and may be considered extra judicial The opinion appears to involve evident mis takes of laiw or example the Judge declares that where a citizen of 'a slave State is travelling upon business of pleasyjre attended by his slave an escape from' the aittendartce' upon the person of his master while on a journey through a free State should It considered as an escape from the State where the master hal a right of citizenship and by the laws of which the service of the slaye was I need not say how entirely tjnsmode of enlarging by construc tion the scope oi thdfconstitutional provisions respect ing fugitives militates with settled law Indeed it doss not seem very consistent with oilier portions of the Judged own reasoning This loose way of construing the Constitution has not met much favor in: the Northern States The constitution provides 'that a person charged in any State with treason felony or other crime who shall flso from'justice and be found in anothsr State shall on demand of the executiret authority of the Stale from whii he fled be delivered up to be reinoved tq the State having jurisdiction of the grand jury ia Alabama about a year since indicted Gj Williamsa citizen of New York for having publish ed in a newspaper called the thy fob lowing God commands and all nature cries out that man should hot be held as The system of making' men propei tyj has plunged 2250000 of bur fellow countrymen intq the deepest physical and moral degradation and they are everyfmoment sinking The Executive of Alabama demanded the delivery of( AV il lia ins to answer to this charge in Alabama butit being no torious that he had never b'ecnin that State and could not therefore have from it the Governor of New York after consulting with his law advisers Very properly refused the application The Gover opinion maintains very ably that the provisionf the cobstitution is to be construed strictly The cl dim set up by the slave master in the Indi ana easel is readily distinguished from the present The master only claimed there the right to pass with his slaved from one slaveState to another through a free' State a mere transit not as here a needless residence It is possible that comity may depend in some degree on locality The geographical positidh of Indiana lying between Kentucky and Missouri may be thought to present some apparent necessity for relaxing in certain cases the domestic rule against slavery I Nokuch necessity exists here and consid erations of convenience as well as of law urge us to adhere to our ancient policy The comity asked in the present case is not toward a mere transit us but is to be extended to a tempora ry residence Now these are widely different ques tions A transit is: a thing weU'understood and ea sily determined What is temporary residence is a far more ilifficult enquiry The doctrine domicil questions of the quo animo or intention these con duct to dubious and intricate ground How long may the temporary residence continue Recollect We have no egislative limitation as in New York and Pennsylvania Why may not citizens of the slave States remain here with theiij slaves ten years as well as ten mnntbs if the animus revertendi be preserv ed Wiat security have we that the fields of Mas each use ttmay not be tilled by slaves It is stated in case that there were than fifteen thousand slaves in" England Lord Mans field estimates the apprehended Joss to their mastersat 70O0Q0I sterling and expresses great solicitude as to the consequences of setting them There are not probably twenty persons held as slaves in Massachusetts to be affected by your decision If slavery is introduced at all in the case ofsojourn Why should we not introduce it as it exists in the Southern States The learned counsel has in ft deed most prudently restricted the' qlaim should he do so Has he not said that the capacity or incapacity of foreigners as be tween themselves attends thenjjjere rand sticks like the shadow umbra geyuitur Besides in avowing that lie claims to carry this child back into slavery lie admits ths intention of doing her a far greaterpnjury than mere beating If she is to be robbed pt her liberty all other losses are in compari hut trifling And such is the view taken by our law idnapping or imprisoning with intent to kid napislqne of th highest crimes The greatest cru eUy of fall is contemplated here namely the removal of the £hild to a place wher slavery with its usual features! will again attach upon her The (force of Lord remark cited by the counsel is certainly unimpaired by the crilicisi we have listened to The difficulty of adopt ing the relation without adopting it in all its conse 'queaces Js indeed (2) The' learned coun sei has limited the slave claim to the utmost let us see what it still "Includes It must Iq clude the right absolutely to direct the locomo tere is one incident of slavery to confine his there is another to exact his labor without wages! (for the case must find that he comes aper tonal this is a third to compel submis sion here by any degree of personal yioleuce that may be found necessary and to force him out of Masi (1) £koflLiws92 Observe that the present tense pervades is used I understand the author to assert that with the single exception of the 'ease of fugL Zives the English rule is now actually operating here (2) 10 How St Tr 79.