Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-02-21


MARTIN VAN buren, TURNED SLAvRI
DEALER. Gross Interference Nth our Courts
Of Jastscc.--We ale informed by a gentle.
man from New Haven that a short time pre-
vious 10 the trial Of the Africans ofthe AIMS.
tad, before the U. s. District Court al New
Haven, Judge Judson presiding, Martin Van
Buren, addressed letter 10 the Judge recon.
mending and urging him TO order the Afr.
cans to be taken back 10 Havana in a Gov
eminent vessel, TO be there sold as siarss and
that about the same time the u s. schooner
Grampus was ordered to New Haven for
the purpose Of receiving them. The schoon.
er we learn from several sources, arrived at
New Haven about the time of the trial un.
der "seaied orders" and after learning the de.
cision OF the Court again "made off" The
letter OF the President recommending that
these poor unfortunate Africans be sent into
PERPETUAL BONDAGE is said to contain senli-
Inents disgraceful TO the high station OF its
author, and which, were they published,
would excite the indignation OF every Repub.
lican freeman in the land What will the
friends of liberty say TO this ? Surely Mar.
tin Van Buren, is playing the part of tyraat
with high hand--eIse why this lamperng
with our Courts Of Justice, this Executive
usurpalion and his heartless violation OF The
nalienable rights Of man? Ofthe truth Of
the above there is no doubt and we leave
The unprincipled author OF such proceeding
in the hands Of a just and high minded Peo
ple
The fac, in the above paragraph, from the
| Patriot and Democrat respecting the inter
ference oftl,e President OF the United States
with the business Of the Court, in the case
Of the Africans taken in the Amistad, is one
oil the most extra ordinary that has ever &C.
Cured since the establishment of our gov
eminent. General Jackson. in a case where
il was most clearly his constitutional duty TO
lend hisaid incarrying into effect decree OF
court, refused on the ground that be con-
strued the constitution as he understood il
and, not as the court thought proper TO con.
slrue it.--But here, il the facts are correctly
stated, the Executive authority attempted TO
direct how Judicial tribunal should decide
poin, OF law. obviously for the purpose Of
subscribing his own political interests 1t is
honorable 10 the District Judge. that he did
: not suffer this attempt al usurpation OF pow
er 10 succeed. And unless there is some
/ mistake in the account, the people ofthe Uni
ted States will, we trust, manifest in some de-
cisive manner, the sentiments they enterluin
on the subject. Hartford Con-, ant.
Miss Lucy HARRINoroN. formerly res
. idenl in Amesbury. and daughter OF Mr.. Mo
4. N. FL, under the following distressing cir.
cumslances. She was sick three years and
half and confined to her bed two years and
g.. 1.
0 death, her right hip was dislocated by con
c traction ofthe muscles, while she was sleep
ing quietly in bed Immediately after this
event, her bones began TO break, and before
her death, they had broken nineteen times OF
more 10 different paris OF her body. At first
her ribs broke. then her collar bones then
5 her lower limbs, her under jaw. and the
bones of her hands and feet Their break
ing was sometimes attended with a noise
and al others not and was always preceded
and followed by the most acute pain. TIL,
Y ends OF the broken bones would sometime:
for day or two, CRATE together on being mo
), we'd. Upon post mortem examination, no
), sound bone was found. All were so soft
ened as to be easily cutwith knife. Wher
' her bones began 10 break, the muscles of he
D lower limbs so contracted that they lay di
Y rectly across her stomach and bowels. Ii
IS this position she remained until her DEATH
4 Her bodv was so contracted that at one tim,
she measured as she lay in bed only two fee
= and four inches. She gradually lost al
sire myth in her limbs. until she could only
y move slightly the ends Of her fingers. Sh,
}. was AZ years of age.--lAmesbury Trans
IT cript
This was an extremely aggravated cas-
: Of very uncommon malady, denominate'
by physicians Mollities Ossiun, anglce,
sodening OF the bones. The bones Of tn
body are composed of Two parts, the earthly
and the geainous. La the disease abov
A described the gelatine was taken up by tn
m action of the absorbent vessels, and the cal
r thly part, being consequently left withou
g, support, became friable, and could not resis
a, the contracting power of the muscles. w
y have sometimes seen, in anatomical cabinets
n specimens OF bones where the earthly pal
: has been removed by the application OF a
81 acid Here the bone was extremely flex
u Bile; in fact we have seen mans thig
ID bone tied in bow knot without breaking
10 Ii is proper to remark that exhaustion or at
81 sorplion OF the earthly part Of bones neve
- takes place ia living subject
" MR. PARMENTER.-RET
. Who doubls that our stipouished rem,