State v. Lasselle
Indiana Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Knox Circuit Court. — Polly, a woman of colour, was brought before the Circuit Court by Lasselle, in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus.
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APPEAL from the Knox Circuit Court. — Polly, a woman of colour, was brought before the Circuit Court by Lasselle, in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus. He stated in his return that he held her by purchase as his slave; she being the issue of a coloured woman purchased from the Indians in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, previously to the treaty of Green-ville and cession of that territory to the United States. — The Court below remanded the woman to the custody of Lasselle.
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
The question before this Courtis, as to the legality of Lasselle’s claim to hold Polly as his slave. This question has been presented before us with an elaborate research into the. origin of our rights and privileges, and their progress until the formation of our state government, in 1816. On one hand, it is contended that, by the ordinance for the government of the territory north-west of the river Ohio, and by the' constitution of Indiana, slavery was, and is, decidedly excluded from this state; while, on the other hand, it is insisted that, by the act of cession of the state of Virginia,…
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