The _illegality_ of the Mayor's conduct in ordering out the
military, and giving to the Colonel of the regiment the
entire control of the same, was fully shown by different and
highly competent writers, among whom was P.W. Chandler, Esq.,
whose two articles, in the _Boston Advertiser_, deserve to be
remembered with respect. The Mayor's excuse was that he
desired to _keep the peace_. But these Massachusetts troops
received pay for their day's work from the United States
Government. Judge HOAR, in a charge to the Grand Jury,
declared the act of the Mayor, in calling out the militia, to
be an infraction of law.
STEPHEN PEMBROKE, and his two sons, _Robert_ and _Jacob_,
19 and 17 years of age, were arrested in New York almost
simultaneously with the seizure of Burns in Boston; claimed
as the slaves of David Smith and Jacob H. Grove, of
Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland. They escaped May
1st, and came to New York, followed closely by their masters,
who discovered their retreat in Thompson Street, and pounced
upon them by night.
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