The schooner Amistad was sailing between Havana and Puerto Principe with a cargo of negroes kidnapped in Africa.
His spirit was shown, among other things, by the Amistad case, in 1839.
Public curiosity was at a high pitch; and for a long time the "Amistad captives" occupied a large place in public attention.
I recommend to Congress that an appropriation be made to be paid to the Spanish Government for the purpose of distribution among the claimants in the Amistad case.
Indeed, they have made a formal offer authorizing the State Department to settle these claims and to deduct the amount of the Amistad claim from the sums which they are entitled to receive from Spain.
I repeat the recommendation made in my message of December last in favor of an appropriation "to be paid to the Spanish Government for the purpose of distribution among the claimants in the Amistad case.
Amistad claim; but in any event the balance was to be paid to the claimants either by Spain or the United States.
Neither the validity of the Amistad claim nor of any other claim against either party, with the single exception of the Cuban claims, was recognized by the convention.
I again recommend that an appropriation be made "to be paid to the Spanish Government for the purpose of distribution among the claimants in the Amistad case.
All other claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, or the subjects of the Queen of Spain against the United States, including the Amistad claim, were by this convention referred to a board of commissioners in the usual form.
Excuso decir a usted que me tiene por un monstruo, por una especie de rey moro herejote; y los militares con quienes he hecho amistad aquí no merecen mejor concepto.
I afterwards was present at one of a series of meetings, held for the purpose of introducing to the public the Amistad captives, Africans of the Mendi country, who had recently regained their freedom.
A lady, not of the proscribed class, who has long resided in New York, mentioned to me as a marked indication of a favorable change in regard to color, the holding of such meetings as those at which the Amistadcaptives were introduced.
The Amistad captives arrived at Hartford on the afternoon of the same day, and were to address a meeting in the evening.
The Amistad was a coaster, bound to Principe, in Cuba, distant some two or three hundred miles.
The following statements are drawn from a "History of the Amistad Captives, &c.
Ruiz and Montez are thus described by a correspondent of the New London Gazette, who visited the Amistad immediately after its capture: "Jose Ruiz, is a very gentlemanly and intelligent young man, and speaks English fluently.
The order for the delivery of the negroes of the Amistad is herewith returned, corrected agreeably to your suggestion.
Without hesitation he espoused the cause of the Amistad negroes.
Thus in his defence of the Amistad captives he began with defining justice in the language of Justinian, "Constans et perpetua voluntas jus SUUM cuique tribuendi.
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