Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-06
The favor and protection extended by the Britt.

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 The favor and protection extended by the British aus t,i;tes in Nassau, to the slave mutineers, who having murdered their master, carried the br!g Creole into that port-wil, by shocking the feeling of the country, rouse attention to the important contro,er- sies already peniing with Great Britain, in which her claims tu liberafe American slaves under her own nu- ncipal law, is involved The right to protect slaves who have killed their masters, and run into British islands with stolen vessel is but another form oi the principle already announced by the British gay- ernnen that her statutes abulishng slavery, trol the law d natons and put of the pale of the comfy, not tosay the justice, due to civilized nations, both the property of slave owners and the flag that covers such prprcrty.
 The state of hese questions, according to the latest official reports, is this:
 Three vessels belonging to American citizens, hay ing slaves on board lave been, at different times within ten years, forced by wreck or distress, put into British West India ports. Two of them-the Comet in 1880, from the District of Columbia for New Oreans and the Encomiun in 1881, from Charleston to New Otleans-were wrecked before the passage of the British emancIpati9n act. Both vessels stranded near the same spot one of the Bahamas, and the slaves board carried by wreckers to Nassau--where they were taken from their and liberated, by the island authorities.
 The third is that of the Enterprise, which, sailing from the District of Columbia after the passage of the British emancipation act, forced by storm 10 seek Port Hamilton in Bermuda, in distress. She had negroes on board, who were taken from their owners, and liberated by force of the local law.
 In none of these cases, was there any allegation that these vessels were not American, with lawful papers, employed in lawful coastug trade from one port to another, of their country.
 After negotiation, the British ministry acceded to the demand of indemnity, made by this government, far as to give compensation in the of the Co., met and Encomium, on the ground that they occurred before the British of Parliament aboshlng slave ry in the British West Indies; but refused it in the of the Enterprise, on the ground that slavery be- ing abolished by ac, of the British Parliament the right to slave property could not be recognised any where in the British domnions-thus claiming that an ctof the local sovereign, might divest other ereigns of rights existing by the law of nations.
 These negotiations still pending. We are told that the late minister England pressed these ters strongly upon the British government, but with out any concession of the rights reclaimed.
 In view of this ease, there in the last Congress unanimous expression of opinion in the United States Senate, in the form of resolutions to the fol- lowing effect:
 That vessels on the high seas, are as exclusively under the jurisdiction of the State which their flag belongs, as if a part of the domain.
 That if forced by stress of weather, or other una workable cause, into friendly port, they are under the protection ofthe law of natons with all the rights of property and persons, established in the State to which she belongs.
 And that the Enterprise within these princi- pes and her seizure, and the seizure of the negroes, WAS an act of violation of the law of nations, and highly injurious to own citizens.
 Since that time, another case has been added- The liermosa from Richmond (Va) to New Orleans was wrecked near the same place as the Comet and Encomium, taken by wreckers into Nassau, and the negroes liberated.
 And now comes this dreadful tragedy of the Creole wherein an American vessel on lawful voyage, was seized out of the possession of her lawful owner, by mutiny ard murder, forciby taken into this British port, and the guilty arc screened from arrest, and forwarded to safer place of refuge and concealment.
 The alarming consequences to this quarter of the Union, of suffering such pretensons as these to re- main unsettled, of seeing harbor opened in the neighboring islands, where runaways mutineers and rnurderers will be received and protected by an aIen sovereign, demands an immediate issue to the dpo- macy so long pending. No of any party in the South, at least, would have patience with executive secretary or minister who should trfe with their impatlence, or compromise their rights on this sub ject
 Some persons speaking hastily, have treated this case as like, in respects, that of the Amisad. But they are essentially different this important iac-that the Amistad negroes were not held 10 ser vice lawfully in the country under whose flag the, sailed, when they seized the vessel and brought her into American waters. The advocates of these ne- groes went before the Courts to shew, that they were not slaves by the law of Spain
 It has always seemed to us, that the Spanish Courts were entitled to decide that question far themselves, but the decision of Courts was that they had jurisdiction, and they relieved the negroes, as not slaves, by the law of the local jurisdiction from which they'came Here it is the assumptions merely that the negroes iee by force of the local law into which they brought themselves by felony against the law of thelr own sovereign.
 In these aspects, and considering the determined position heretofore taken by the British Government, il must be admitted that the question is one of very grave importance To the peace of the two countries, and has reached very critical point.
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