. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . lair that the kidnapers were em-ployed by Vanderburgh to seize and forcibly carry away two negioes, aman and his wife, who are free by the Constitution of the Territory, andwho, being held by him as slaves, has applied to me for the writ ofhabea,s corpus, in affirmance of their freedom. He wanted Vander-burghs commission revoked. St. Clair declined, and wrote to Turnerthe fullest statement of his views on the question that has been said: Permit me sir, to offer you my opinion u
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . lair that the kidnapers were em-ployed by Vanderburgh to seize and forcibly carry away two negioes, aman and his wife, who are free by the Constitution of the Territory, andwho, being held by him as slaves, has applied to me for the writ ofhabea,s corpus, in affirmance of their freedom. He wanted Vander-burghs commission revoked. St. Clair declined, and wrote to Turnerthe fullest statement of his views on the question that has been said: Permit me sir, to offer you my opinion upon the subject. 19 St. Clair Papers, Vol. 2, p. 176. 216 INDIANA AND INDIANANS which is shortly this: that the declaration in our Constitution, that thereshall be no slavery nor involuntary servitude in the Territory, applies to,and can be taken advantage of only by, those slaves who may have beenimported since the establishment of that Constitution. Slavery wasestablished in that country when it was under the dominion of was continued when it fell under that of Great Britain; and, again,. The Early Surveys and Land Grants under Virginia-, a part of the Territory of which it was considered bythat State until the cession thereof made to Congress; and whether thatconstruction of the State was ill or well formed, the acceptation of thecession by Congress confirmed it to all intents and purposes; and thereis also a clause in that cession about continuing to the ancient settlers,and those who had settled under Virginia, the benefit of their ancientlaws and customs. As I have not the act of cession of that State by meat present, I can not give you the words. Slaves were then a property INDIANA AND INDIANANS ? 217 acquired by the inhabitants conformably to law, and they were to be pro-tected in the possession of that property. If so, they are still to be pro-tected in it. So far as it respects the past, it can have no operation, andmust be construed to intend that, from and
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