How It Alters The Case

VVhen President Tyler was applied lo in behalf of tho Mendians, to provide for them a passage in a govermnctit vcssel . ,.;..„ 1 1, 1 .; .(... bro knew of no provisión oflaw which wonld enable liiiato conwly ivft'h the reqncst. ín iho Constiiuiion, Art. H. Sec. 2, it is said,"The President shall be commander in-chiefoftiiearmy and navy of the Uni :ed Siate.." This is CertáinJy a provisión oflaw whichgives liim the pmver to do il had he been disposed to. But il will be satd that this power was not conferredon tr.e t resnJent to enuhlo him to sencl stolen Mendipgs homel Trtio. Nor was it given to enabiehim to send stolen Mendians to Cufaa.to be hnnged for doing wlíaí every body e!so would have done in tho same circumstance?, ondyet for thisnurposo could President Van Buren use if, nd there was nocomplaint rhat it was an abuso of power. The 'reader hne it bclowORDER. "The Marshal of the United Stafcs for ihe district of Conneclicut, wil! deliver over to Lieut. John S. Paine, of the United btntes Navy, nd nid in conveying on board the schooner Giampus, under his coramand, all the negroes late of the Suanish schooner Amist.id,. in hts c.usioclyunder process nOw pending before tbe circuit court of the United States for the district of Conecticut. Fur so doing thia vr der wilj he hisjwarranr. "Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 7ih day of January A. D. 1841. M. VAN BUREN."of the above order wnsthftt they miht be conveyed to Cuba on gov ernrnent expense and by govcrnmenuiuthority. But when they wish to be carned tu Sierra Leone, there is no provisión pf.law. IIow it alters the case. ifüny one cffn infurm us whence the provisión of Inw to send ihcm to Cuba more ihan io África, we shali be very happy to reccive ihc ra forma t on.- N. E. Ch. Advocate.