Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-01

names ages, sex, former owneis and State from
(which taken The British Government resisted
compensation Upon the ground ot1war captuLeSi
that, being token IN war, no now Ds7
tors, who had right 70 OF Il as the
led, and had chosen to slaves nav
ing become free, belonged to nobody anil cense-
ouently it was no bTeach of the treaty stipulation
4 20 carry them away. This ground was contested
by the Congress of the Gonteder 10 theeud OF
Its existence, and afterwards by the new Federal
1 Government, from its commencement untlth
i claim for indemnity ~ as waved OF aoantoned at
1.-THE conclusion of Jay treaty, in 1885. The very
i first message of Yashington to Congress present
led the inexecuion of the treaty oil peace IN sths
particuar, among Others, us one of the complaints
Justly existing against Great Britain; and all the d.
plomacy of his adnnstf was exerted TO obtain
Il redress in vain The treaties OF 80 anu 96 We're
Iboth signed without alluson To the subject, and
5being left unnrovided for IN these trentieS, the
claim sunk into the class of obsolete demands;
ahd the stipulation remained IN tile treaty a deau
letter although containing the precise words, and
Itne additional one meg roes OH whlchathe Empe-
Iiror Alexander took the stand which commanded
conpensation and dispensed with argufns ntS tound-
ed in the laws of war. Not .hlllIng mas oeen re-
lceived for that immense depreciation on private
property, although the Congress OF Condensation
adopted the strongest resolves, and even
1.-The States to be furnished with copies of the sched-
lules of the slaves taken from II; and hopes OF IN
ldemnity were kept alive until by the
treaty of '96. TWAS bitter complaint against
that treaty, as the Congress debates oil the time
land the pn bile press nbundanty show.
Northern men did their duty 10 the South IN get.
EIting compensation (and, what is infinitely more,
Establishing the principle that there Shall be COM
pensation in such cases) for the slaves carried
away in the war of 1872. A majority ofthe COM
rniSsioners at Client who obtained the stipulation
for indemnity were Northern men-A dams, Rus
sell, Gallatin, from the free, and Clay and Bayard
from the slave States. Northern negotlator'
kNF dent
lJohn Quincy Adams,) finally obtained it; and 1t is
a coincidence wotlhy of remark that the Northern
negotiator, Who was finally successful, was the
So e debater in Congress, IN '96, VINO dellSeIeu
the best argument, in my opinion SURPRISING even
THAT of Alr. Madison, against The GROUNDS on WllcH
the British Government resisted the execution OIL
this article of the Treaty. am no man to snriu
old claims against the Federal Government and
deteSt the trade which exhulnes such claims ano
the facility with which they are considered. bul
III must say that the Argument on which the French
spolation claim is now receiving so much consider
ation applies with Infinitely more force 10 the plan
tiers whose slaves were taken durlng the oil lhe
Revolution thanin behalf of these French spolla-
Ition claims. They were contributing N
their persons in the camp or council, all IN theli
voluntary or tax con:ributionS-to the lndepen'
ldence of their country when they were; thus de-
spoiled of their property. They depenueu upon
lthese slaves to support their families while they
Iwere supporting their country. They were IN deD
to British merchants, and relied upon compensa-
tion for these slaves to pay those debts at the very
moment when compensation was aoandone9 oS
the same treaty which enforced the payment Oh tut
ldebts. They had treaty obligation Tor indemnify
express in its terms, and since shown 10 be valid
when deprived of stipulation by another treaty
in order to obtain general advantages Tor the %hol
Union. This is something like taking private
property for public use. Three thousand s ayes
the.proDerty of ascertained individuals, protecte'
by treaty stipulation, aud afterwards abandoned
by another treaty, against the entreatles anu re-
monSttances of the OWNERS, in order to OBTAIN TN
British commercial treaty of '94, and its supple
ment of '96: such is the case which this TeYolu
tionary Spoliation of slave property presents
and which puts it immeasurably ahead OF IN
French Spoliation claims prior 10 $500. Ihere
but four years difference in their ages-ln the uau
of the two treaties by Which they were reSPec
lively surrendsIed-und every other difference be
tween the two cases is an argument oil preferences
in favor of the losers under the treaty oil lI95.-
Yet am against both and each, separately or 10
gether and put them in contrast to make one STAN
las an argument against the other. But the prl
mary reason for introducing the slave spolatio
case Of 1888, aud comparing its less fortunate IS
sue with that of 1872, was TO show that North en-
men will do justice to the South; that Northern
men obtained for the South an indemnity ana Sc
curity in our day which Southern Administration
with Washington at It's head, had not been able L
obtain in tile daysof our fathers.
MISTAKES NOT REcr1P1ED.-I henri an nciden
in your city, the facts of which are not, thnk
generally known, and it may prove interesting Il
your readers. ltappears that towards the close
the Revolution the good people of the North Chutc
found it necessary 10 make some repairs. The
sent on to Boston anu purchased some nails, who
in due course of time arrived, and upon openln
the kegs, 10 and behold, one of them was iounlt'
contain Spanish dollars. t'ThIs was a go!' In
deacons aSsembled-held a .consultutlon-and tn
result was they wrote on to Boston and informed
the merchant who made the sale t!tat there was al
error in shipping the goods. The merchant, ACTIN
upon the min :iple of our banks at the pre- en-
day, wrote back that he could rectity no mistake
that the nails were bought aud sold as they were
He bought them of a privateersman, and must lie
it stand asit was. The coin was melted up an
made into a service of plate for the church, and
is in existence and use at the present day In
above was related to me by gentleman IN who's
family is a large goblet made from the same silver
and you may rest assured that what have slate
is lact.-Neto Hauen Register.
SINGULAR ED1r0RM1 AcHrEyeMENT.-Y esterda
1.-THE Leander-like achievement or swimming the Nj
agara and again recrosSing. at short dlStanc
below the Catarac, was performed hyJ. v. Ihom
as Esq 1.-THE late editor of the Brooklyn Dali
Adyertiser.-NiGgura Falls Iris, Juiy16.
Charles Hines bit off anotherman's lip at Brook
Ign the other day, for which he was fined Sl,50Q
more than the lip OF its owner was worth perhaps
but less than the community require TO lnsur
their safety.
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