The North Carolinian

The Prisoners at Van Diemens Land.

We have something to say in regard to these poor American sufferers in a far distant land. They are now made to suffer for acts which are not really their own, but those to which they had been moved by men of the first influence, and who took good care to keep out of harm's way themselves. The captives now suffering in bondage are exclusively from the working classes of our country. Those who belonged to the most wealthy families, (the very individuals who by their solicitations called these men into the enterprise,) have been liberated through the interference of their friends, while these are retained to suffer, because they are poor. Is this just, in any view of the case? We think not; and we cannot but believe it to be the duty of the American government to take some action in the matter. What is to be gained by the British government in thus keeping in remembrance the part any class may have taken in the late disturbances in the Canadas? Certainly nothing that humanity can desire; but much that may be lamented.--Albany Argus.