gaol, until he would consent to falsify his conscience by expressing sorrow for his honorable act of escape. We have already heard of HENRY LONG as a maker of mischief among Slaves. We cannot but hope that this conduct of SIMs will spread the knowledge of useful truths among his fellows. May every reclaimed Fugitive be an Apostle of Liberty, teaching his companions in misery that there is a land where no Slave can breathe, pointing out the constellation which rains down the sweet influences of Freedom, and showing that those doctrines of equal rights with which the air is fulsome, are as much the birthright of the black man as of the white. In this manner the Fugitive Slave Law may be the means of sending laborers into a vineyard that their masters wot not of, and of hastening a vintage that they look not for.

OTHER EXTRADITIONS OF SLAVES.

It is quite impossible for us to detail the Slave cases which have dishonored other portions of the country in anything like the detail we have thought due to our own. The greatest part of these occurred in the State of Pennsylvania, which, from its position bordering on Maryland, is necessarily the most exposed to these horrors. We have the less reason to regret the narrowness of our limits on this account, inasmuch as the last Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, a document compiled with much care and characterized by great ability, contains a detailed account of them, to which we refer our readers. It states that up to the time of the meeting of the Society, October 7th, less than a year from the first arrest, TWENTY-SIX victims have been delivered over to their tormentors, besides a considerable number whom the swiftest of Judges and Commissioners could not help discharging for want of sufficient evidence of their condition. Perhaps the most shocking case, and the one that the most fully illustrates the horrible possibilities of the Slave Law was that of HANNAH DELLAM, who was brought before Judge KANE in Philadelphia, on the 10th of March. She was in that condition to which the Common Law extends its mercy even in the case of a murderess, so that the life of the innocent may not be taken with that of the guilty. Although a precedent was cited by her counsel, directly in point, this wicked Judge was as deaf to law as to humanity. He even prolonged the session of his Court late into the night in order to guard against the danger of a child being born free in Pennsylvania instead of being

born a Slave in Maryland! Such a wretch will be remembered by History only to be ranked with the judicial monsters whose names are a stench in the nostrils of all posterity.

Towards the close of August a colored man of the name of JOHN BOLDING, was arrested in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., by Marshal TALLMADGE, as a Fugitive from labor in Columbia, S. C. He was a young man, recently married, supporting himself and his family reputably as a tailor. He was hurried to New York and his examination proceeded with incontinently before Commissioner NELSON, one or two attempts to bring him before the State tribunals by Habeas Corpus having failed. Mr. GEORGE WOOD, the Father of the New York Bar, and the Attorney General of the Slavecatchers, appeared for the claimant, and Messrs. E. D. CULVER and F. H. UPTON for the prisoner. The defence mainly turned upon the question of race, it being maintained that he was of Indian descent, and so not lawfully a Slave. The trial lasted for five days and created a very strong interest, even in New York, by the peculiar hardships of the case. The Commissioner, however, decided against him, and he was sent on to Columbia under charge of a posse of United States officers, at the head of whom was Major Tallmadge, the brother of the Marshal, unworthy sons of the gallant Major TALLMADGE of the Revolutionary army, who little thought what disgraceful consequences would follow the success of that struggle, dishonoring alike his country and his blood.

So strong, however, was the interest excited by this case that the sum demanded by the agent of the owners, with enough added to cover all the expenses of recapture, was easily raised. But the agent demanded that not a jot should be abated from his due pound of flesh, but that the captive should be first taken back to Columbia in triumph and restored from thence. This insulting condition, though not without some reluctance, was submitted to. But it was with difficulty complied with, although the owners evinced a laudable desire to perform a contract by which they would be largely the gainers. On the arrival of BOLDING at Columbia, the authorities took the matter out of the hands of his owners, disregarding the favorite maxim of Slavery, that a man may do what he will with his own, shut him up in gaol, and forbid his being returned to New York. And it was only after a considerable time, and by means of a pretended sale out of the State, that he was at length circuitously restored to his home and his family.

About the same time a man named DANIEL DAVIS was arrested in Buffalo, under circumstances of great cruelty on the part of the claim

ant, who inflicted a blow which rendered the man nearly insensible during his examination. Notwithstanding all that could be done in his behalf, Commissioner SMITH, a star of the first magnitude in the constellation where INGRAHAM, CURTIS, MACALLISTER, and NELSON shine resplendent, with all alacrity signed the certificate which was the Death-Warrant of his liberty. While under this process, DANIEL was induced, doubtless by representations of the advantage it would be to him on his return to Kentucky, looking upon his case as utterly hopeless where he was, to write a letter expressive of his sorrow for having run away, and of his great desire to be restored to the blessings of the Patriarchal Institution. Great was the glee of the political and religious papers over this document, from which they inferred that DANIEL was not only a man of unimpeachable taste, but of a rare intellectual development. Unfortunately, however, for his permanent reputation his case was brought before Judge CONKLIN, of the Second District of New York, at Auburn. After a full hearing, this Magistrate discharged DAVIS on the ground, chiefly, that the law of 1850 was not retrospective and that, DAVIS having escaped previous to its enactment, he could not be reclaimed under it. No sooner was he at liberty than he put himself under the protection of Queen Victoria, with all despatch, leaving his reverend and honorable admirers in the lurch.

Besides the numerous instances in which Slaves have been returned to their masters in different parts of the country, and a few cases in which the persons claimed were discharged for various reasons, the instances of kidnapping have been very numerous, particularly from Pennsylvania and Ohio. The multiplication of this crime is, doubtless, to be attributed chiefly to the vicious public sentiment generated or fostered by the immoral arguments of priests and politicians in defence of the Slavecatching law. There is, certainly, no just distinction to be made between the seizing and selling into Slavery a man born free, and the seizing and returning to Slavery a man who has escaped from it. In the sight of God and of all good men, the acts are morally identical. It is not, therefore, surprising that in the eyes of bad men the one should seem to be as innocent and proper a business as the other. Kidnapping is as essential a consequence of the existence of Slavery in this country, as the Foreign Slave trade is of Slavery in Brazil and Cuba. The latest case of this kind is the most horrible in its attendant circumstances. A short time since a colored girl, known to be free, was seized by THOMAS MCCREARY of Elkton, Maryland, and an assistant, in the house of

JOSEPH C. MILLER of West Nottingham township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Mr. MILLER and some of his neighbors pursued the kidnappers, and found the girl in Baltimore. A charge of kidnapping was made against MCCREARY, and while it was pending Mr. MILLER and his friends proceeded homeward by the railway. When his party arrived at his home, it was found that he was missing. Search being made, his body was found hanging from a tree, under circumstances, which, apart from his excellent private character, forbid the hypothesis of suicide. It is believed, where the facts are best known, that he was decoyed out of the train and murdered, for the purpose of putting his testimony out of the case. Subsequently, MCCREARY was discharged, and the poor girl delivered up to Slavery. Murder is, surely, a fit concomitant of kidnapping. The lesser crime may well be called in to help or to hide the greater.

It is but just to record, however, that there has been one instance in which condign justice was dealt out to kidnappers in Philadelphia. Last March, GEORGE F. ALBERTI and JAMES F. PRICE were tried for the crime of kidnapping a colored child and selling it into Slavery. They had decoyed the mother, who was claimed as the Slave of one MITCHELL, of Maryland, and her child to Philadelphia, and thence carried them into hopeless Slavery. As there was no question as to the condition of the infant, it having been born in Pennsylvania, the indictment was only for kidnapping him. They were convicted, without hesitation, and ALBERTI sentenced to ten years imprisonment, and PRICE to eight, in the Eastern Penitentiary. MITCHELL, the Maryland Slaveholder, for whose behoof this crime was committed, was indicted, and a requisition made upon the Governor of Maryland for his surrender. But it was refused, though clearly a Constitutional demand, on the ground that the issue of a Slave woman, wherever born, is subject to the laws of the State from which she had fled. This course of Gov. Lowe, of Maryland, has received the approbation of the Constitutional Convention of that State, which also appropriated funds for carrying the case before the Supreme Court of the United States. A movement has also been lately made in the Legislature of Maryland, to interfere in behalf of ALBERTI and PRICE. And detestable as is the guilt of those miscreants, and deserved as may be their punishment, we cannot regard them as sinners in any degree above the Judges, Commissioners, Marshals, Mayors, Union Safety Committeemen, and all persons whatsoever, that have had any part in the rendition of any Slave, under the law of 1850.

THE CHRISTIANA AFFAIR.

The labors of the Slavecatchers, however, in their vocation, though so frequently successful, met with two signal and memorable defeats. On the 11th of September, EDWARD GORSUCH, of Maryland, his son, DICKERSON GORSUCH, with a party of friends and a United States officer, named KLINE, who bore the warrant of Commissioner INGRA HAM, made their appearance in a neighborhood near Christiana, Lancas ter County, Pennsylvania, in pursuit of a Slave. They lay in wait for their prey near the house of WILLIAM PARKER, a colored man. When discovered and challenged, they approached the house, and GORSUCH demanded his Slave. It was denied that he was there. High words ensued, and two shots were fired by the assailants at the house. The alarm was then given by blowing a horn, and the neighborhood roused. A party of colored men, from thirty to fifty strong, most of them armed in some way, were before long on the ground. CASTNER HANWAY and ELIJAH LEWIS, both white men and Friends, rode up before the engagement began and endeavored to prevent bloodshed by, persuading both parties to disperse peaceably. KLINE, the Deputy Marshal, ordered them to join the posse, which they, of course, refused to do, but urged upon him the necessity of withdrawing his men for their own safety. This he finally did, as far as he personally was concerned, when satisfied that there was actual danger of bloody resistance. GORSUCH, however, and his party persisted in their attempt, and he and two of his party fired on the colored men, who returned the fire with deadly effect GORSUCH was killed on the spot, his son severely, though not mortally, wounded, and the rest of the party put to flight. The dead and wounded were cared for by the neighbors, mostly Friends and Abolitionists. We are glad to be able to state that the Slave, for the capture of whom this enterprise was undertaken, made his escape and reached a land of safety.

It need not be said that the news of this adventure soon spread far and wide, and created an intense excitement. Judge GRIER denounced the act from the Bench as one of Treason. A party of marines were ordered to the ground to keep the peace after the battle had been fought and won. United States Marshal ROBERTS, Commissioner INGRAHAM, United States District Attorney ASHMEAD, with a strong body of police, accompanied them, and kept the seat of war under a kind of martial law for several days. The country was scoured, houses ran