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Pardoned

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
August
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Jason u. i enuiuiuii, ..-.- the brig Montevideo, convited ia the District Court of the United States of beng engaged in theslavc trade, has be.en pardoned by President Polk, and his fine i-ernitied.' We complain not of tlus - fbr a slaveholding President could not, kvith any degvee of consisiency, do less. Polk nnd Pendleton are, in flict, brothers md partners in trado- the ore hol.Jsst.,len Americans as his property- the othr was engnged in stelling Africans to make them property. Nd ronder l'olk pardoned Pendleton. :iA IcII.av feeling makesus wondrous kind." C'osis might have been saved to the Government, had the Exccutive clemency been exercised prior to his conviction. 'forrey died in prison - because, in obedience to the best instincts of hamanity, hesought the redemption of the slavo from cruel bondage - Pcudleton waiks abroad, ünscathed, for he souglitto kidnap and enalave his fcllow-men. What a stench in thenotrils of universal humanïii lr ÍÍvoinrriOtit nPOOmP.I- - (,