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SLAVE CAsE.-Fnday morning application was made to Mir. Sheriff IIuggeford for a writ of habeas corpus 10 take the body of female slave, who was supposed to have arrived in vessel from the Souih and which was then lying in the stream. Mr. Hugce- ford, who engaged at the time referred the app cant 10 C D. Cooledge, the newly appointed Sheriff. The gentleman promptly compiled with the request, and proceeded, in duty bound, to serve the writ The negroes, who had been made acquainted with the affair." had assembled in body on the wharf when the Sheriff arrived. boat was manned, and the officer with some others proceeded to the vessel. The female who had retired to rest, awakened and made &C., quanted with the ofthe writ-tha it would pro- cure her immediate freedom. But to their astonish ment, she refused to leave the vessel or to place her. self under their protecton-eating in the true dialect and with all the eloquence of the African that she had husband at home, and would rather return to him in slavery, than live in strange land, free. The app cant for the writ finding that persuasion would n- duce her to change her determination, left her to her fate.-Bost. Jour.

 Here we the iniquity of the abolitonists in UT. ging abstract principles to extremes. This woman is of competent age, both by nature and law to act for her. self Tn the premises, and she prefers live slave ra ther than become free woman in the North and de- sert her husband at the South She has done wisely and done well. She is far happier in her present es late, than all the promised joys freedom could poss ply make her.

 But look at another picture. Who will answer for the deep "deep damnation of the sin which separated may stole child infant in mind and in law, with out the power of choosing between freedom and slave " under any circumstances from its mother in the South, that she might be called free in the North iYho shaii answer--no here only, but hereafter for keeping the little aaectonate girl-the little slape- brought here as companion, rather than servant by Mrs. slater--separate-at remote dstance-from her doatng and distracted mother at New Orleans. Sepa- rate mother and child in the name of Freedom, ?-what ianateism IS this !-Boston Transcript

 HE SLAVE CHILD. An abolitonist writes us ID relation to our remarks yesterday the recent slave case; Io obviate the painful consequence of separ- ang the child from its mother, Mr. Loring distinctly stated 10 the court that if the owner of the child would lodge certificate in public office in New Orleans au'hofized to receive the same, acknowledging ane guafanying the freedom of the chid that she would be immediately returned to her mother So that the eff feet of the proceedings will be, if Mr. Slater will com ply with thls condition, not only the freedom of the chld' but her restoration to her mother And if he does not do this, the responsibility and the cruelty vii rest upon his head.''

 This makes tue matter no better, but rather worse The aboitIousts make laws which contravene the dis pensations ofthe Almighty and the argue against di Sine decrees--n the pride ofhuman invention.

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