Deputation,” that is showing off to such advantage in the city?  It is William Apes, the convicted rioter, who was the whole cause of the disgraceful sedition at Marshpee the last summer; who is a hypocritical missionary, from a tribe in Connecticut; whose acquaintance with the Marshpeeans is of less than a year’s standing.  And he is endeavoring to enlist public sympathy in his favor, in advance, by lecturing in the Hall of Representatives, upon that pathetic and soul-stiring theme, Indian degradation and oppression; vilifying and abusing the irreproachable pastor of the plantation, Mr. Fish; stigmatizing and calumniating the Court and Jury who tried and convicted him, and flinging his sarcasms and sneers upon the Attorney and Jury who indicted him.  And for all this, he is receiving the applause of an audience, who must be ignorant of his character; and blinded by the pretences of this impostor.  And as far as that audience is composed of Legislators, their conduct, in permitting Apes to enlist their passions and feelings in his favor, pending a Legislative investigation of the subject, is reprehensible.

But, there is no fear that the matter will not be set right.  That the investigation by the intelligent agent last summer, (Mr. Fiske,) and the investigation now going on by a committee of the Legislature, will show the true character of Apes, and point out the real wants and grievances of the Indians; and that the remedy will be applied, to the satisfaction of the Indians and the discomfiture of that renegade impostor and hypocritical interloper and disturber, Apes, there is little doubt; that such may be the result, is the sincere wish of

        THE TRUE FRIENDS OF THE INDIANS.

The spirit in which this unrighteous piece is written, speaks for itself, and is its own antidote.  However, it is just what we might expect from a liberal paper of the liberal town of Barnstable.  So one gang of partizans call it.  Deliver us from a “patriot,” who would set his face against all good, and destroy the people themselves.  These writers, if there be more than one of them, seem to have some idea of piety and religion.  I therefore advise them to pluck the motes out of their own eyes, that they may see clearly enough to make better marks with their pens.  The editor and his correspondents, (if he did not write the article himself,) have rendered themselves liable to a suit for defamation; but I think it best to let them go.  I will not touch pitch.  The discomfited, hypocritical impostor, renegade and interloper will forgive, and pray for them.  He will not render evil for evil, though sorely provoked.

Nevertheless, I feel bound to say to these excellent friends of the Marshpees, who wished them to remain crushed under the burthen of hard laws forever and ever, that they will go down to their graves in the disappointment, which, perhaps, will cause them to weep away their lives.  I should be sorry to hear of that, and exhort them to dry their tears, or suffer a poor Indian to wipe them away.