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“Important from Washington--The Captured Africans,” Charleston Courier, 17 Sept. 1839.
Important from Washington--The Captured Africans.--We learned yesterday
from Washington, (says the N.Y. Herald, of the 10th inst.) that Secretary
FORSYTH has had an interview with the Spanish minister, relative to the Africans
captured in the Amistad, and that a correspondence or interview has taken
place of some kind, in which the Secretary has indicated a willingness to give up
these men to the requisition of the Spanish government. This intention of the Secretary,
however, requires the sanction of the President, who, at the last accounts, was at
Rochester, and whose opinions on the subject are not yet known. It seems that Secretary
FORSYTH bases his intention on some clause of a treaty with Spain. If this be so,
the government have the absolute disposition of these men, and the proceedings at
New-London or New-Haven, if the government chooses to act, are null and void.
