Book/Printed Material Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841 : with a review of the case of the Antelope, reported in the 10th, 11th, and 12th volumes of Wheaton's Reports
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Image 1 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … ARGUMENT OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, vs. CINQUE, AND OTHERS, AFRICANS, CAPTURED IN THE SCHOONER AMISTAD, BY…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 2 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … ARGUMENT OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. May it please your Honors — In rising to address this Court as one of its attorneys and counsellors, regularly admitted at a great distance of time,…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 3 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 4 in the Institutes of Justinian, nearly 2000 years ago, and as it is felt and understood by all who understand human relations and human rights, is— “Constans et perpetua voluntas, jus…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 4 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 5 consideration, the most painful of all others, in considering the duty I have to discharge, in which, in supporting the motion to dismiss the appeal, I shall be obliged not only…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 5 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 6 the correspondence of the Secretary of State with the ambassador of her Catholic Majesty, as officially communicated to Congress, and published among the national documents. The charge I make against the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 6 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 7 They were found in this distressing and perilous situation by officers of the United States, who, moved towards them by sympathetic feeling which subsequently became as it were national, immediately rescued…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 7 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 8 For I inquire by what right, all this sympathy, from Lieut. Gedney to the Secretary of State, and from the Secretary of State, as it were, to the nation, was extended…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 8 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 9 of the court-room,) that law, two copies of which are ever before the eyes of your Honors. I know of no other law that reaches the case of my clients, but…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 9 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 10 misapprehends the application of the principles asserted in these resolutions of the Senate, as indeed Mr. Forsyth appears by his answer to this letter of the Chevalier to be fully aware.…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 10 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 11 part of the United States are all wrongful from the beginning. The first act, of seizing the vessel, and these men, by an officer of the navy, was a wrong. The…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 11 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 12 Honors, I am simply pursuing the chain of evidence in this case, to show the effects of the sympathy in favor of one of the parties and against the other, which…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 12 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 13 the vessel, cargo, or slaves beyond the control of the Federal Executive.” Here is a ministerial officer of the Executive Government, instructing the District Attorney, before the Judiciary has acted upon…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 13 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 14 house, the necessary permit from the authorities for the transportation of the negroes, a passport, and all the other documents required by the laws of Spain for navigating a vessel and…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 14 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 15 had the general government been able to interpose its authority in the first instance, as it has probably done during the short interval between the occurrence of this affair and the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 15 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 16 Declared, by whom? By the President of the United States. Of course, he does not demand that the “incompetent tribunal” in Connecticut, before which the suit was brought, should declare this,…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 16 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 17 it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 17 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 18 the feelings were in favor of his demand]—“so necessary to the maintenance of the friendly relations that subsist between the two countries, and are so interesting to both. “The undersigned would…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 18 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 19 to the Africans, in whose possession it was found, and who certainly had what is everywhere the first evidence of property, or there was no person to whom this article could…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 19 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 20 United States are now bound to restore the ship to the Africans, and replace the Spaniards on board as prisoners. But the article is not applicable at all. It is not…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 20 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 21 fell victims before November, and from that time not one has died. Think only of the relief and benefit of being restored to the absolute wants of human nature. Although placed…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 21 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 22 Mr. Calderon also quotes article 10. “ Art. 10. When any vessel of either party shall be wrecked, foundered, or otherwise damaged, on the coasts or within the dominion of the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 22 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 23 reward nearer their merits than the restoration of these poor negroes to them, or enabling them to complete their voyage. But my clients are claimed under the treaty as merchandise, rescued…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 23 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 24 of slaves. They own their plantations and slaves there, subject to the laws of Spain, which laws declare the African slave trade to be felony. The Spanish minister has no right…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 24 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 25 was to issue his lettre de cachet, and send these unfortunate individuals to Cuba. I abstain now from reading the subsequent passages.* He concludes by saying, * Mr. Adams' forbearance will…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 25 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 26 blood all the slave-traders of Cuba thirst, and any slave from the south shall make his escape and come to Cuba, we will readily deliver him up.” What is this argument…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 26 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 27 Secretary of State, on receiving such a letter. And in the first place, what did he do? His first act was, to misrepresent the demand, and to write to the District…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 27 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 28 Very well—it amounts to this: that the Executive did not choose to hold itself responsible for that construction of the act of Congress. This appears from the appeal. What have the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 28 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 29 I am informed that, after all, this boy has not been sent to Cuba, notwithstanding his anxiety to go, and the desire of the Spanish consul for his restoration, with a…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 29 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 30 head of a nation, but as a constable, a catchpole—a character that it is not possible to express in gentlemanly language. That is what this demand makes of the President of…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 30 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 31 delay of an hour, that this Government could never admit such claims, and would be offended if they were repeated, or any portion of them. Yet all these claims, monstrous, absurd…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 31 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 32 Attorney, it was no part of the business of the American Secretary of State to look after the evidence. Still, if he had requested the minister to communicate the evidence to…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 32 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 33 Here we see the same unfortunate misapprehension continued. The new Spanish minister calls upon the Secretary of State to put the “Court of New London” into speedy action, to lessen the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 33 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 34 There is a complete answer to all these demands of the Spanish legation. “The constitution and laws have secured the judicial power against ALL interference of the Executive authority.” That is…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 34 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 35 its effects on the rights of the people of the United States. I again ask the attention of this honorable court to this subject. The letter begins with a declaration of…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 35 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 36 waiting the determination of the court or courts, against the jurisdiction of which the undersigned had already especially protested.” The Spanish ambassador was not satisfied with the letter, and and yet…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 36 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 37 “Her Catholic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, nevertheless, seeing that his previous protest did not produce the result which he expected, renews it now, declaring this government responsible for the…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 37 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 38 to the treaty of 1795. If anterior, it clearly became annulled, because a treaty is one of the superior laws of the State, or the treaty should never have been signed,…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 38 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 39 State of this government. “For,” says he, “be it recollected that the legation of Spain does not demand the delivery of slaves, but of assassins.” How is it possible to reconcile…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 39 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 40 merchandise, but as men—as infant females, with flesh, and blood, and nerves, and sinews, to be tortured, and with lives to be forfeited and consumed by fire, to appease the public…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
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Image 40 of Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States … 41 they should not be restored to their pretended owners, but kept in close custody, and, in defiance of all judicial authority, conveyed to the Havana Governmentally, that is, by the arbitrary…- Contributor: Cinque - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, John Quincy
- Date: 1841
About this Item
Title
- Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841 : with a review of the case of the Antelope, reported in the 10th, 11th, and 12th volumes of Wheaton's Reports
Names
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
- Cinque
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York : S.W. Benedict, 1841.
Headings
- - Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
- - Cinque--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Slavery--Law and legislation--Spain
- - Slavery--Law and legislation--United States
- - Slave rebellions--Cuba
- - Amistad (Schooner)
- - Antelope (Ship : Active 1820)
Notes
- - Checklist Amer. imprints 41-40
- - "The case of the Antelope reviewed"--p. 94-134.
- - LAC tnb 2020-10-06 no edits (2 cards)
Medium
- 135 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF4545.S5 A93 1841
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11027427
Online Format
- online text
- image