THE LAW OF EMANCIPATION IN TENNESSEE.

—The following is a postscript of a letter just received by us from Tennessee:

"I will give you a short account of a law which passed at the last session of the Legislature of this State, on Emancipation, and how it is ruled by the Court. In an adjoining county an able man, seeing the evil of slavery, and his conscience, no doubt smiting him, when about to die, made his will that one of his sons (naming him) should take his slaves (fourteen, I think) to a free State and emancipate them. It was brought before Chancery for certain pre
liminaries, whereupon the Court decided that, according to the late act, it could not be done; that the law said no slave could be taken from this to a free State and set at liberty; that they must be sold to the highest bidder for one year, to raise money to transport them to Liberia, although the son stood by to plead that he might carry the will into effect. When the son got up to ask the privilege of speaking, the Judge would not allow him to say one word; and although the will was made long before the act passed, it could have no effect whatever. I was an eye witness to all of the proceedings. Another law says you shall not set at liberty any slave in this State. Chivalry in high places!—The tighter they pull the string, the sooner it will break.

"OBSERVER"