complaint, and there can be no manner of doubt that too ample room remains for the improvement of their condition.  The communications at hand advise the Indians to stand out for their right to appoint their own overseers, and do all business now especially done by the State.  That they ought to be allowed this privilege, (if privilege it may be called,) there is no question; but there is a question, whether this is the first important step to be taken.  By a list of names which accompanies our advices, it appears that very few are able to write their own names, their mark being affixed instead; and in addition to this, we are informed that there are many who cannot even read.  With this view of their condition the correct and efficient course to be pursued would seem to be that of sending Education Missionaries among them, that in contending for their rights, of which they say they are deprived, they may be enabled to act understandingly.

This may serve to show that the Marshpees had long been dissatisfied with their government, and that very many complaints had been made; which will be illustrated by extracts from divers petitions, in another page.  The next refers to the Marshpee trials, and is signed in a manner signifying that the writer speaks advisedly, and from knowledge.

    From the Barnstable Journal of July 18, 1833.

    Mr. Apes was arrested at the Marshpee Plantation on the 4th,
    by order of the Executive, and required to give bond for his
    good behaviour.

    Mr. Apes now says, that this statement is not correct; that
    the Governor has ordered no such thing, and that he never was
    requested in all his life to give bond for his behavior.

Much has been said in and out of the papers about the Indians in Marshpee.  All that the Indians want in Marshpee is to enjoy their rights without molestation.  They have hurt or harmed no one.  They have only been searching out their rights, and in so doing, exposed and uncovered, have thrown aside the mantle of deception, that honest men might behold and see for themselves their wrongs.  The Indians could spread columns before the world which would cause the hearts of good men to be sad, and recoil at the conduct of their white brothers.  All that Mr. A. wishes is, that people would tell the truth.

        A BEHOLDER.

With regard to this article, I have to say that it speaks the truth.  If an honest white man could look into our private affairs and know what wrongs we have suffered, it would change his complexion to a hue redder than the Indian’s.  But the crimes committed against our race cannot be enumerated here below.  They will each and all, however, be judged at the bar of God, and it must be the comfort of the poor and oppressed, who cry for justice and find it not, that there is one who sees and knows, and will do right.  The next is from the Boston Daily Advocate, of July 12.