Generous Christian men organized themselves into a committee for the defense of these unfortunates. John Quincy Adams broke the professional silence of more than thirty years, and volunteered to plead for them before the Supreme Court of the United States. "Little did I imagine," he said at the close of his masterly argument--"little did I imagine that I should ever again be required to claim the right of appearing in the capacity of an officer of this Court. Yet such has been the dictate of my destiny, and I appear again to plead the cause of justice, and now of liberty and life, in behalf of many of my fellow-men, before that same Court which in a former age I had addressed in support of rights of property. I stand again, I trust for the last time, before the Court." It _was_ the last time, and the glorious ending of an illustrious legal career, for the slaves were acquitted from all charges against liberty or life. That committee was the germ of the American Missionary Association, those slaves were the nucleus of the great work of the society on African soil, the efforts of the committee in their behalf were the beginnings of the always widening and ever blessed work which the society has done and is doing in our land. The "Mayflower" and the "Friendship"--they must always be equally historic vessels. The coming of each was a prophecy and a promise. They each reached a port for which neither was bound, and both were started on an undreamed-of, limitless voyage. "Mayflower" and "Friendship"--let them forever sail on abreast in our reverence and affection, the special and yet affiliated work which each was commissioned of God to do, acknowledged and accepted, and assiduously pressed, till the continent is clean from wrong and all its inhabitants are true and just to each other, and the imperial nation stands among the people of the earth in the purple of unquestioned supremacy, while the splendor of the Divine Favor covers it with glory and honor. * * * * * We clip from a colored religious paper, published in Georgia, the following extract from one of its correspondents. The style of the writer, and also his facts, are strong arguments for education at the South. The schoolmaster is evidently abroad: