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LATENT NEWS.THE CAPTIVES ARE FREE!Tims appropriately commences a letter from .1. Q. Adams, announcing to lire Committee in tins city who ! had in charge the interests of the Africans of the Amis* tad, the result of the Supreme Court decision.We annex the letter:Washington, 9th March, 1811.The Captives are free !The part of the Decree of the District Court, whichplaced them at the disposal of the Cnited States to he sent to Africa, is reversed. They are to be discharged from the custody of the Marshal,—free.The rest of the decision of the Courts below, is af*firmed. -j.t „• .-i ,;jFV v * qppje'' .»; .?“ Not unto us—not unto us. Ac. *J. Q Adams.We confess our gratification as men, our special gratification as Americans, at this righteous and up-right decision ; and we can almost envy the feelings of the disinterested men who have steadily upheld the ; cause ol these captives—at such a termination of their labors. To no single one, however, as we believe, is , more praise justly due than to Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.! the author o! the admirable article originally publish-j ed in the Kvening Post, and republished in this paper and others—answering the invidious appeal made thro’ | the (Ilobc, to the Supreme Court, at the moment of its meeting,—on the subject of these captives.—N. York• American.
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Rutland Herald
Rutland, Vermont, US
Tue, Mar 23, 1841
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