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

HE AMIsTAD CLAIN.-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 Rn.
chanan politicians in the Cabinet and in Con.
gress are using their utmost endeayors to in.
duce she payment of $50 900 on this claim.
we presume that most of our readers will
readily recall the circumstances of this case of
the Amistad negroes. This Spanish vessel
was Oh her way from Africa to Cuba, with a
cargo of slaves; they rose upon their masters,
murdered some Of them, and compelled the re.
malnder to navigate the vessel into port They
landed ct New Haven, Conn; here the ne.
groes were, after trial, set free by the auihori.
ties, provided tor, 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 fually brought the
case to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and here 1t was decided that the Span
ish claimants had no right to the possession of
the negroes, nor to any idemnity from our
Government. The Supreme Court was not
then past 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 againt this villainous claim when
the band of death was laid upon him. Now.
the Buchanan partisans are once more trying
TO force Congress to pay this most unjust de.
mand, and 1t is said that they are DESTROYS OF
paying it, IN order that they may the more east
~ commence their Cuba.stealing operations.
The Senate committee have reported in favor
of paging 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 will
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 vassas an
unqualified obedience, under threats of fogging
and branding. See how the South applies the
laeh to Senator Douglas, for daring to perfor N
one honest act in opposition to the DEGREES of
the SAavocracy:
The envious Casca who makes s the rent
in the Democratic party has purchased the
grati cation 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
fratrAide, will be avoided as an object of uni
versa contempt and indignation. The Democ.
racy q 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 compGmented 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 iu
pellsd by their own instincts of justice. Boz
if that motive fail, they may as well understand
ct once that the Democracy of the South are
resolved to sever all connection with the asso
ciates of Douglas and his fellow apostaies
Northern Democrats have simply to choose b.
tween an alliance with the South and toIera-
tion of the Illinois migrate"
John Jones Moore, the "respectable-looking "
scamp who was arrested several days ago ct
Ashland, Virginia, (says the Petersburg Er.
press) in company with William Jackson, a
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 peL1e Greeleyite was chained by the wrist
to his 800 cOnfding friend Bill, who couldn't
help ht5wing on him at Ashland, and presented
an appearance Of the most abject shame the
human countensnce can be capable Of express,
ing. II was most appropriate method of se-
curing the scoundrel. He was caught taking
the slave to the North now it was rice versa,
and the slave was taking him to the South
The South