The Southern Press

A Nut for the Abolitionists.--Spencer Coleman, a free man of color, was put upon his trial in the city court on Wednesday last, charged with a violation of the law requiring that all free negroes who have come into this State since 1832, shall leave, and prohibiting their return under penalty of forfeiting their freedom. The testimony developed the fact that Coleman had been legally admonished to quit Alabama, and had gone with his family to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he found it impossible to obtain such a livelihood as would insure him and family domestic comfort, and rather than starve among his destitute colored brethren of that philanthropic abolition region, he determined to return immediately to Mobile, and stand a criminal prosecution in preference to existing in a free State. He preferred slavery in Mobile to freedom in Ohio--especially such freedom as the Abolitionists gave him. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Here is a nut for Wendell Phillips and the whole abolition legion to crack. Mobile Register.