The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-04
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rmm ths Boston Evening Traveller. July 81
Our readers viii remember that, about two years
ego, I've idcts Indian dwsrs were exhibited in this
cit,. under the name Of Aztec children, Thcy we're
represented as belonging 10 almost extinct race
OF sscc priests and kings, AID 20 have been taken
b. seme extraordinary means from an excluded city
ID Central America. where remnant OF the Astecs
stSu lvrd utterly shut out from all the world and
feSsevefi ngiy and s-iuiiy resisting all inter
ocusse with the people by whom they were sur
rounded. This stor, was too improbable, not 20
say tbeurd, 10 make much impression here. There
were somc iroumstapces connected with the exhibit
siun, teo, which not calculated TO inspire
bdence Ia the repres. n ations which wero made IN
rgsro Ia the cnarst-f AID history of the children.
The erhLtiop itself exn'ec in ,nony minds no other
than fesli, e. OF co'Eas .on nn0 disgust Tie Ame-
rican AcGa. my of Arts ,ud Sciences here undertook
some invest g stoo ut The subject Their exaInina-
tNsn, however. WAS psitiai and resulted In con
illusions which Justified the pretensions set up IN
behalf Of the exLio.tioa The Natural History
Sooiety investigated rho matter more thoroughly
and with much ipore conclusive results. report,
onibed.fe these results, was published IN ue CO.
iuD,ns vi the ftatrGsr The general conclusion
arrived was, that too children nothing more
tran idictic dwaris of degenerate niian race, aad
that there wus no gsoeAu ibr Tepreset tng them a.
Axt~cs, "a any other respect romarShpie or ;nie-
resting decisive tbs report, that the eXhi-
bticn heru was almost pui ,iat.ly closed, AID tho
r0os children removed from the city lie NC
rymeu.bcT Alright. they were soon afterwards exh-
bscd II Lowell anc subsequently, IN other places III
hoaeyer that they no; now called Aztec chill
dien, tvt ~,re eSh bred "a her ms iuats ',atad-
monsters cu.trs q, tsruities Of the human race.
Atcr hs .is ior teen cvncea.cd coIn On
lively from puh "htert ion, these almost
sale,sos A. m.r, "a. cXtia,tt d in Newly ok with
AL The .ri pr tvis,Dss as To their origin aud cha
rncteT; aid 10 gr,et auazem-nt, the people Of
New York w-r" 20 thoroughly infatuated 10y the
cheat Ne 10 Kit nd 20 t;P esh biioa their marvel
ious sduii' aion aud cont ued support for perhaps
a year Our Ne~ Vars contemporaries sonnet olrs
does not co.irm that view OF the dispensatious of
nature At length the exhibition has been
moved To Philadelphia war,e. rejoiced 10
ie8rD, measures la ram which will be likely TO
expOeo sne Imposition wbieh has been SO long aud
20 successful, psactiscd upon the New York public
i'll rega d u Lhese L. dsr children 1t seems, from
the following pn'agra,h { ON the Philadelphia
LtdeT, that at application Ia, been nude, by legal
rspferentivos 81 parents of these children, to take
then from The custody of the persons by whom they
are h,lo-
- A I.tiaun ~ns fled on Saturday, in the Court
OF Quarter Sess,oo before Judge Thompson, praying
Tor wit OF kaJ as corpus 20 bring the little Aztec
cbidI.D before has honor to be disposed Of rs to
right belongs The Petitioner. Raynondo Seva,
Alleges under oatn ih,' the persons who nov have
thn cdy of The children. MessIs Addison, Kuox
and Morris, bold them IN opposition To the will of
tie pare ut, SSans' the lucnatlon of the children.
ard W violation of HE law He says the parents OF
the Children resG, H. San Salvador, Nicaragua, aud
aie iand l. occn'i Blu go's and Martini Neri; that
fh. chiG'er wen born M near the village nf 10
Gotta, AZ tho bspGitIi of San Mgu in the State
sbose nsmed aud hat their parents have directed
the IesJtiore. 20 r. claim theIG. No day has been
0xed Tor the hearing al The case, which will doubt
iees BE- an Interesting one