Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-29
January 90, 1870.

government OF Spain had no claim 10
them whatever under cur treaty with that
country.
What then shall be done with them a.
Shall they be at once set at liberty, and
Jeff TO provide Tor their own subs is.ence !;
or shall they be sent back to Africa at the
expense of our government The court
decided on the latter course, as mos. con-
.isent with the dictates Of humanity, and
Of recent decision of the Supreme Court
Of the United States. BY an act of Con
cress passed in 1919, the President of the
United STATES is directed to send bacl, to
Africa, such negroes, The victims of the
slave trade, as shall be brought into this
country. In giving this direction, a-par-
tcuIar reference was undoubtedly had to
Africans found in American ships engag-
ed in this trade. But in a case of this
KIDD, liberal construction should be CIV
en- to the law. II should be considered as
extending to all the victims of the trade,
however they may be thrown upon our
shores, and such was the construction Civ
en- Thy the Supreme Court in 1880, in.
the case Of a Spanish SLAYER UNITED
States vs.. Preston) which was driven into
NeWOrIeans by stress Of weather. The
Africans on board were sent back TO heir
native country at the expense Of our gov
eminent. The Judge remarked, that he
considered the present as substantially the
sane case. The fact that these Africans
remained for a fortnight at the Havana,
aqd erethen shipped on board another
vessel, did not, in mis- view, make the
slightest difference. For all the purpos-
Is OF the law, it was the same thing as
taoagh they had arrived here in the same
snip which brought them from Africa.
Since commenced this letter, the de-
cslon Of the court has been communicat.
ed to the Africans. One of our clergy
went Immediately from the court room 10
che County House where they reside.
aud where they were anxiousIy awaiting
whalthey considered as the Issues of life
% death. When he told them, through
the interpreter tina, the case was decided,
lh'y all ieapt from their seats with the
lveliest emotion ia their countenances
ani as he went on 10 say, that they
would nor b. given up to the Spanards,
bat sent back TO their own country they
spmhg forward and threw themselves on
their fices at his feet. May God grant
hA the deiiverance in which they thus
rj,lcc, may ellectuaIl v touch their hearts
aud that the kind and faithful instructions
which they had begun to receive, NAV
'moug the lavor OF the Holy Spirit, re-
sub in their delverance from eternal
death.
few natives Of the Sandwich Islands,
thrown on our shores twenty-five years
sIhte were accompanied on their return
ny lhqsa, who have been made the inslru-
mrhts under God of converting thou
@nts to the Christian faith. May it not
te Tue d"siga of Providence to make the
Tdlrn OF these Africans to their native
land, the means oil opening Il wide and eff
hclua door for the Introduction OF the
gaspsl among trib-s, which could not have
Nren re ,chtd in any other way, for many
Years TO GOMEZ | think | know those
who would cheeriullv return with Jingna
and his companions to Africa, if i: should
sten to be the viii of G ID.
Yours &c.
The following particulars are from d
letter Of the Rev. H. G Ludlow to one
Of the editors of the Journal of Conn
mercc.
The past week has been one, to me,
end | might add TO the whole community,
Il thrilling interest. For myself | can
lmy say that during no period OF my
NE, save that IN which nv soul was de-
clling the question Of its-destiny for eler-
nty, have. my feelings been more intense
y engaged. The poor Africans taken
lon on board of the Amistad, have been
on trial, and really for their lives The
Smnish Consul filed claim on the
ground Of treatv.that they should be sur
rendered to him, to be returned to their
preendel owners Ruez and Montez, in
Cnbl. Had he secured decision in his
iarOr, il would have virtually been their
Death warrant, for DIR. Madden, one of the
Witnesses, deposed, that on their landing
there they would beinevitably executed
The trial before his Honor Judge Jul
son, which was commenced on Tuesday
he7 closed on Saturday, and if ever men
we're inspired 10 present with sunbeam
eearnessthe claims Of Righteousness, to
ne the mind Of Court, the Counsel oil
NE poor Africans were thus assisted =
Messrs. Staples and Sedgwick, of your
guy, r, s. Baldwinsof New Haven, with
thoughts that breathed and words thai
burned, stood up as their champions -
a0a speak rot my own opinion only, bul
'pat OF our community, who hung upon
,aelr lips spell bocal-when | say thai
RECOMMENDATION, AMI for eoquence too
.aelr appeals to the Court were irresisti.
Ole AT times the feelings of the audi.