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that we are not insensible to the prejudice which
exists in their minds. M.


We have now official despatch from the great
Daniel Webster in relation to the case of the
Creole


strange document coming from one who has
been supported, and hitherto selected as leading
champion of northern rights and humanity.


Does not this official despatch to Mr. Everett,
to which we allude, breathe sentiments at variance
with the highest tribunal of our country +? and we
may add with becoming pride, one of the most
profound tribunals of the civilized world. 1t is
the of the Amistad, and in what does
this case differ from that of the Amistad p
Does it only appear in the fact that instead of be-
ing only few months in bondage, as were the
Amlstad captives, those of the Creole, torn from
their homes, had grown grey in long pro-
tracted slavery. That they had been longer the
subject of brutal traffic, that they had more bit
tery felt the horrd pangs of despair, as they had
been sold from the bosoms of their wives and
children, thus parting from the only Joys of. ex-
istence which constitute human happiness. That
their task had been longer urged on by the lash
and that they had been doomed longer to suffer by
oPtucSSlOH vi tHe SldVe uTlFor! Are
there no motives for effort to recover long lost
liberty? But Mr.. Webster says that the highest
offences known to human laws, the most atrocious I
crimes of piracy and robbery would 90 unpun-
ished, were not the Creole and all on board sent
home, to prevent witnesses being scattered over
half the globe, when the culprts are to be tried
beautiful sophlstry to chain down the victim of
long abused cruelty and to thus the more efectu-
ally return him to the lash of inhumanty.


What is Piracy? 1t is by sea what would be
robbery by land ! 1t is the taking by violence the
property of another 1t is the sezing the proper
ty Of another, instigated by the base passion of
gain What feature in this case which induces
the statesman to apply piracy to the Creole p
Was their motive, p!under7 MOI their struggle
to be free. They asksd nothing, but to be
free! They seized not the vessel to plumber; they
seized not the cargo; they only asked and sought
their lberty-and that the sun, which God made
for the blessing of al, should not on them only
shine, when toiling beneath it's scorching rays,
in the deadly swamps of. slavery. And what is
murder 1t is the taking Of the life of one man
by another, instigated by malice, or the love of
gain, or the qualification of some diabolical pas
sion. What mark was here? What diabolical
motive stirred their bosom? 1t was the same
feeling which animated the almost sainted men
who gallantly fought at Bunker's hill. And were
they murderers for they, too, slew what they
deemed the oppressors of their rights-the British
soldier! And is it less justifiabe in man, stolen
from his country, his family, his household afec-
lions, when sold in bondage, to struggle for his