The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-01-14

story Zuphe had taught them, for some days.
All the boys were intelligent and belonging to
respectable German families The trial excited
great interest, and was altogether strange al
iair.-C Cleveland Herald
John Quincy Adams and The Blacks Of The A
mistad The Boston Courier publishes some
exrracs from letter written by John Quincy
Adams, in which that distinguished man makes
the following plain statement in relation to this
singular case -
"The fr'cans of the Amistad were cast up.
on our coast, in condition perhaps as calami'
tous us could befall human beings not 10y their
own will, NOT with any intention hostile or pre-.
datory on their part, not even by the act of God,
us in the case Of sliipwreck, but by their own
ignorance OF navigation and the deception OF
one of their oppressors, whom they had over
powered, and whose life they had spared, TO en-
able them, by his knowledge of navigation, TO
reach their native land. They were victims of
the African slave trade, recently imported into
the island OF Cuba, in gross violation of the
laws of the isand ond of Spain, and by acts,
which our own laws have made piracy, punish
able with death. They have vindicared their
natural right to liberty by conspiracy, msurrec.
lion, homicide, and the capture of the ship in
which they were embarked, and of her cargo
For this act of homicide and capture, they were
accused by the two Cuban Spaniards embarked
and they were claimed by the same two Cuban
Spanards, accessories after the fact, to the slave
trade piracy by which they had been brought
from Africa to Cuba,--as their property, because
they had bought them from the slave trade pi
rates. They knew nothing OF the constitution,
laws, or language OF the country upon which
they were thus thrown, and accused pirates
and murderers,and claimed as slaves Of the very
men who were then their captves. They were
deprived even Of their faculty OF speech in their
own defence. This condition was sorely ca.
lamitous 1t claimed, from The humanity OF
Il civilized nation, compassion 1t claimed, from
the bro,herly love of a Christian land, sympathy.
1t claimed from the brotherly love OF Chris
tian land, sympathy. 1t claimed, from Repub'
lie, protesting reverence for the rights of man,
justice. And what have we done A naval
officer of the United States seizes them, their
ship and cargo, with themseves,-rramplcs on
the territorial jurisdiction of the State OF New
York, by seizing, disurnng, and sending on
board their ship, without warrant OF arrest, sew
eral of them whom he found on shore releases
their captves, admits the claim of the two cap
tives 10 the fifty masters as their slaves, and
claims salvage for restoring them to servitude.-
They arc then brought before court oil the u
nited States, ut once upon the charge OF piracy
and murder, upon claim to them as slaves, aud
upon a claim agains, their pretended masters
for salvage by kidnapping them again into
slavery.
In the mean time, they IRE TO be held as slaves
10 abide the issGe. Is tins compassion Is it
sympathy Is itjustice But here the case
stands"
SINGULAR Circumstance. As two lule boys,
sons OF Mr. Nathaniel Hutchinson, of Pembroke
the ono seven and the other nine years OF aye
were on their way TO school, Thursday morn
ing, 18th uIt, while it showed and raned some
what, and when within about thirty rods of the
school-house at the North end OF Pembroke
street stranger dressed tolerably well, in a
blue frock coat, started mp from behind the wall
sprang at the forward and youngest boy, VINO e.
uded his grasp, when he tuned upon the oldest
boy, seized him, and on the boys attempting 10
cry for help, he bound handkerchief close ov-
er his mouth, took him in his arms and carried
him over the wall, and laid him down under it.
The bow Struggled to gain his liberty, when the
man told him to lay still and he would not harm
him. as he only wished to take a little blood
from, his Ieg-lor he said he had done il to quite
number Of Other little boys; whereupon he
drew sharp pointed instrument, let little
blood, unbound the handkerchief, put the hoy
over the wall into the road, and ran Oft through
the field into the woods. Conjectures are vari-
Gus as to the object of this man, yet nothing has
vet happened to the boy to indicate any attempt
TO communicate disease, nor has there been any
sniff Gent time TO ascertain whether this was his
intent or not.--(M H) Courier. .-a...
Uy7The following Ode was sung at Celebra-
ton of the New England Society in New York City.
ODE-.BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT.
Wild was the day, the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New ngland's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free
Our fathers trod the desert land -,
They little thought how pure light,
In time should gather round that day; "'-
!. How love should keep their memory bright
49,. How wide a realm their should sway
Green are their bags. but greener st'ii' .-se...
Shall round their spreading Jane oe "fea'"eo'
And regions, 1,o,o untrod, shall thrill ,,. .z.
with r.ver,nce when their names are breathed.
Till where tho sun with softer hres'
Looks on the vast Pacific's sleep,
The children Of tie Pilgrim Si'es,