New-York tribune., 1841-12-28

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FRIENDS OF New YORK of her Prosperity, o.
her Commercial Ascendancy, and her onward
march to greatness, fail not, we conjure you to b,
present at the City Meeting in behalf Of the Now
York and Erie Rail Road, at Niblo's, Ttis Ere
uing.
rHg CASE OF THE CREoLE.-We would gladly
refrain from farther comment on this exciting topic
did we not remark seeming eagerness in por-
,oa Of the press to .urry the Government and
Country into an attitude which can neither bc
maintained with Justice nor abandoned with honor
In this view we are impelled to farther remark
We consider it very clear, says in substance
tie Courier &. Enquirer, Chat Great Britain
must regard as American property whetevcr l.
made so by hcr laws Now let test this prin-
ciIle Suppose, at the close OF the last Polish in
>urrection somc thousands Of the defeated Pole
Ind fed to this country Gas they ultimately did,
and Russia had attempted their reclamation, (whic
she never sid.) No, sir, responds our Secre.
ta,y OF State to her Minister, call persons fleeing
10 tie jurisdiction of the United States from tho
political Discussions OF other countries, entitled
10 our protection. We cannot give up your fugi-
lives" " All but, says NJ. de Bodisco, we arr
ahead of you there A part of the fugitive
claimed by US were serfs in Pcland-by the iunda-
mental law of the land they the property Q.
rhc MOBILES. You must restore cur human property
AT any rate" NO, sir, again responds the Sec
,eiary of State, eve cannot surrender even thcsc
They may have been property by your laws, iol
aught we know or care, but by our laws, by the
laws Of God and Nature they Mes, and MOI
ei.b,ect to reclamation as brutes or chat;es. -
Does no, every American acknowledge that our
Government must have answered thus, and thai
different would never have been acqui
csced in by the People that our Government
could not restore the fustives if it would, and
would not if it could The application is una
voidable.
But there is another tack MIR. Stevenson an
swers the reclamation of fugitive slaves from tn,
case (alleged to be paraleD of fugitive soldiers.
censcripts, apprentices and sailors. Now there is
a kind of universal maritime law for the reclama-
ton OF sailors deserving from vessels ia the harbo
Of another nation growing out of tho necessities Of
the case (; but hen did our Government ever sur
render fugitive soldiers apprentices on the re.
elamaton of Great Britain To knowledge,
Never! We have often seen deserters from the
British army in the streets of our frontier towns,
and though wearing the uniform which was noio-
-~-lv the property of the British Governm Mt,
we never saw or heard of one being given up or
dreading that he would be. AS for reclamine
fugitive apprentices (save apprentices on ship
bcare) the thing never heard of.
But, says the Richmond Enquirer.
(" In the case of the Creole, our G""-I-- =" III
not only demand the resii,uefun oil the slaves, upon
the ground that they property illegally rescued
frf,o their owners; but they will be demanded
fugitive feons The Creoie belonging to Virginia,
~ lone as she the high seas, she with
IN the Jurisdiction alone of this country and all
crimes committed on board, were offences aguir ST
our laws. All of the negroes, therefore, who
tuslly constructvcly participated in the murder
on board are elons under our law"
Granting all this, Mr., Enquirer, doyou not know
,ha, our Government utterly refuses 10 gioe u1
such criminals, where their offences are most
wanton and horrible? Who can forget the case OF
Holmes, villain who first seduced u wife and then
murdered her husband in Canada, and, fleeing 10
tho United States for protection, was never given
up, though urgently demanded The case of the
Bambers strikingy illustrates the feeling of our
our countrymen in regard to cases where fugitiyes
FOR offences partly political reclaimed. MOI
such will ever be given up by Us for should
the Government consent the People would
The Enquirer talk, of this RICH, of reclamation
of fugitives charged with crimes as an unsettled
question" Not at all: it is we'll settled that the
right only eriSt stnder mutual treaty
stipulationS. Once there was such u treaty stipu.
laiion between and Great Britain, but it ex-
pred and we did not choose 10 renew it. In its alb.
scence, the comfy nations dictates that agociou,
criminals should be given up reclamation but
this is matter strictly of courtesy policy, never
of National obligation. We have seldom or never
surrendered fugitive on reclamation but often re-
fused, and no Government has ever thought OF
complaining. Neither can similar refusal by
Grea, Brteir afford just cause OF complaint on our
part.
Again we entrea, the American Press TO excr
cise caution and moderation with regard to our diff
hculues with Great Britain If we are TO have
war with her, let that il is put on the right
issues-on such as we can confidently and proudly
RI no md