The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-27

IHE AMIsTAD CLAIM-This old and mimi
tous claim of the Spanish Government has
been revived, and is now being pressed unon
our Government for payment, and leading Blu.
ehansn politicians in the Cabinet and In Con.
gress are using their utmost endeayors to in.
duce the payment of $50, 900 on this claim.
We presume that most Of our readers will
readily recall the circumstances of this case of
the Amistsd negroes. This Spanish vessel
was on her way from Africa to Cuba, with a
cargo of slaves; they rose upon their masters,
murdered some OF them, and compelled the re.
mainder to navigate the vessel into port They
landed at New Haven, Conn. here the ne.
groes were, after trial, set free by the authori.
ties, provided for, and sent back to Africa.
The Spanish claimants resisted the claim of the
negroes to their freedom, but were defeated ;
they carried the case to higher court, and
were again nonsuited; they finally Brought the
case to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and here It was decided that the Span.
ish claimants had no right to the possession of
the negroes, nor to any idemnity from cur
Government. The Supreme Court was not
then just what 1t is now, and the decision was
IN favor of freedom and the rights Of the ne.
groes. This having put an end to the claim
before the courts, the Spanish Dons have been
pressing the claim upon Congress, session after
session, with great pertinacity. 1t has always
been successfully resisted, and it will be re.
membered that the "Old Man ELOQUENT"
John Quincy Adams, was speaking on the floor
OF Congress agsint this villainous claim when
the band of death was laid upon him. Now,
the Buchanan partisans are once more trying
10 force Congress to pay this most unjust de-
mand, and it is said that they are desirous OF
paying it, In order that they may the more east
ly commence their Cuba.stealng operations,
The Senate committee have reported in favor
of paying the claim. We trust that it will be
resisted as steadily as heretofore, and that No
such robbing of the National Treasury and
sanctioning of the piracy of the slave trade viii
be standardization Bee.
How cruel are the chivalry to their Northern
vassals. They tolerate no symptom of manly
resistance to their demands, but exact from
their white ss we'll as their black vassals al
unqualified obedience, under threats of fiogginp
and branding. See how the South applies the
lash to Senator Douglas, for daring to perform
one honest act in opposition to the DEGREES oil
the Slavocracy:
The envious Casca who makes 81 the rent
in the Democratic party has purchased the
qualification of paltry pique against the Pres
ident by the sacrifice of every claim to respect
and every hope of promotion. TIE mark is
upon his brow, and henceforth Douglas, the
fratsicide, will be avoided as an object of uni
versal contempt and indignation. The Demoe
racy of the North will not tolerate his presence
They will Danish him from the party, and com
pei him to seek the association of Aboltionists
by whom he will be complimented as a recruit
and distrusted as traitor. To this act of re
venge against the followers of Douglas we be
heve the Democracy of the North will be irn
PEELED by their own instincts of Justice. Be-
if that motive fail, they may as well understand
ct orce that the Democracy Of the South are
resolved to sever all connection with the asso
ciates of Douglas and his fellow apostates
Northern Democrats have simply to choose b.
tween an alliance with the South and q tolera
tion of the Illinois Migrate"
John Jones Moore, the "respectable.looking y
scamp who was arrested several days ago a;
Ashland, Virginia, (says the Petersburg Er
press in company with William jackson, 3
slave belonging to Mrs. Frank Weston, Of
Charleston, s. c., whom he had abducted Fer
the underground, passed through this city Oh
Wednesday evening, en- route for Charleston, in
the custody of the police officers from that city
The noble Greeleyite was chained by the wrist
to his too confding friend Bill who couidn't
help blowing on him at Ashland, ard presented
an appearance Of the most abject shame the
human countenance can be capable of express.
ing. Ii was most appropriate method of Sc.
curing the scoundrel. He was caught taking
the slave to the North now it was vice versa,
and the slave was taking him to the South
The South