Name: The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6
Author: Simeon E. Baldwin

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Simeon E. Baldwin, The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6

“ Was ours to become a party to proceedings for the enslavement of human beings cast upon our shores, and found in the condition of freemen, within the territorial limits of a free and sovereign State? The United States had brought this appeal on the ground that these men were the property of Spanish subjects, and had been demanded by Spain. But the Spanish minister was no party to the appeal, and in one of his official notes to the State Department had expressly declared that the legation of Spain did not demand the delivery of slaves, but of assassins. ”

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Simeon E. Baldwin, The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6

“ Such a power would put the personal freedom of any citizen of the United States at the disposition of executive discretion, caprice, or tyranny. It was the servile submission of an American President to the insolent dictation of a foreign minister. The President must have been profoundly ignorant of the self-evident truth that the right of personal liberty is individual, that to every one that right is his own ”

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Simeon E. Baldwin, The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6

“ It was a lawless and tyrannical order, and issued in cold-blooded cruelty, for the commanding officer of the Grampus had warned those who sent him on this errand, that his vessel was too small to carry so large a cargo of human flesh. ”

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Simeon E. Baldwin, The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6

“ Adams [2] addressed a note to the Secretary of State, stating that his government had reason to know that the Amistad negroes were illegally imported into Cuba on a Portuguese slaver, and, on account of the fact that Spain renounced the slave-trade for a valuable consideration, given by Great Britain, the Queen took a peculiar “interest in the fate of these unfortunate Africans, who are known to have been illegally and feloniously reduced to slavery by subjects of Spain.” ”

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Simeon E. Baldwin, The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6

“ He did not hesitate to make a direct attack upon the expiring Administration, and declare that its course had been governed not by any sense of justice, but by sympathy for Spanish slave-traders. And what, he said, had been the demand of the Spanish minister? That the President of the United States should first turn man-robber; rescue these forty Africans from the custody of the Court ”

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Simeon E. Baldwin, The Captives of the Amistad — Section 6

“ The very skeleton of my argument is not yet put together. [5]
His interest in the cause was intense, and he said more than once, that if he should be in any way instrumental in rescuing these people, he should consider it the greatest event in his life.
On Wednesday morning, February 24, the “old man eloquent” rose to address the Court. ”

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