Rev. Mr. Apes, who has been conspicuous in the Marshpee nullification, has, we learn, been taken and committed to jail in Barnstable county; upon what process, we are not informed, but we trust, for the honor of the State, that while our mouths are yet full of bitterness against Georgian violence, upon the Indians, we shall not imitate their example.

How true it is that men see the faults of others, rather than their own.  If the good people of Massachusetts were as ready to do right as to have the Georgians do right, the Marshpee Indians might, perhaps, send a Representative to the Legislature.  I hope the remark will give no offence.  The next is from the same print, of July 15, 1833.

The Marshpee affairs, we are gratified to learn, are more quiet than they have been.  The Indians took forcible possession of the Meeting-house the other day, and have retained it ever since, but no farther act has been committed on their part.  They notified Mr. Fish that they had dismissed him from their Parish, and also formally gave notice to the overseers that their offices were at an end.  Hon. J.J.  Fiske, of the Executive Council, has visited the Indians, by request of the Governor, and has, we learn, discharged the duty in a highly conciliatory and discreet manner.  The Indians would not at first consent to see him, but being satisfied of the disposition of the Executive to listen to their grievances, they met Mr. Fiske alone in the Meeting-house, where, by their special request, the overseers also appeared.  The Sheriff of the county, Hon. John Reed, and others, were also present.  About one hundred of the Indians appeared, many of them armed with guns.  They were perfectly under the command of Apes, but all of them conducted with propriety, and seemed peaceably disposed.  Mr. Fiske heard their complaints for one day.  Their demands were to have the overseers removed, and the books and funds, now in the hands of the Treasurer, transferred to them; and in fact to be left to the entire management of their affairs.  It was explained to them that the Governor had no power to do this, if he were so disposed.  That he could only change their overseers, and lay their complaints before the Legislature, who alone could alter the laws now governing the plantation.  To this, Apes would not agree, insisting that they should be relieved of the guardianship of the State, and that the Governor could do it at once.

He was questioned as to his own right to be on the plantation, to which he does not belong, and finding all argument useless with him, Apes was arrested in the assembly, (where he was acting as moderator,) upon a warrant for assault and trespass, in unloading the teams of Mr. Sampson.  The Indians were perfectly quiet, and Apes having been bound over for his appearance to take his trial, in the sum of $200, he was immediately bailed by Mr. Ewer, a Justice of the Peace, and was not committed to jail, as has been represented.