MoDnffie  and.that  of  the  "  Uttrary  and  Theological  Jieciew,'^  viz :  "justly  liabls  tO
the  highest  civil  penalties  and  ecoleslostical  censures."


414  GREAT  STRUGGLE  BETWEEN

of  the  American  Anti-Slavery  Society,  should  be  delivered
up  to  be  tried  by  the  laws  of  Alabama,  (a  State  into  which
he  had  never  set  his  foot,)  on  an  indictment  against  him  bj
the  Grand  Jury  of  Tuscaloosa  County,  Ala.,  for  publishing  in
the  Emancipator,  at  New  York,  the  following  sentences :

"  God  commands,  and  all  nature  cries  out,  that  man  should  not  be  held
as  property.  The  system  of  making  men  property  has  plunged  34^50,000
of  our  fellow-countrymen  into  the  deepest  physical  and  moral  degradatioD,
and  they  are  every  moment  sinking  deeper/'

In  making  this  demand,  Gov.  Gale  says :

'*  It  is  admitted  that  the  offender  was  not  in  this  State  when  his  crime
was  committed,  and  that  he  has  not  fled  therefrom,  according  to  the  strict
literal  import  of  that  term."

Gov.  Marcy,  as  may  well  be  supposed,  declined  acceding  to
the  demand.  But  it  was  expected  that  that  class  of  offenses
might  be  punished  under  laws  to  be  enacted  in  New  York.
