The Court should enable the United States to send the Negroes home to Africa…in pursuance of the law of Congress passed March 3, 1829, entitled “An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave-trade.”… The persons aforesaid, described as slaves, are Negroes and persons of color, who have been transported from Africa in violation of the laws of the United States….Slaves, therefore, in the Constitution of the United States are persons, enjoying rights and held to the performance of duties…. Circumlocutions are the fig-leaves under which the parts of the body politic are decently concealed. The words slave and slavery are studiously excluded from the Constitution. The Constitution no where recognizes them as property. The Constitution of the United States recognizes the slaves, held within some of the States of the Union, only in their capacity of persons-persons held to labor or service in a State under the laws thereof-persons constituting elements of representation in the popular branch of the National Legislature persons, the migration or importation of whom should not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808.Yet, from the day when the vessel was taken possession of by one of our naval officers, they have all been held as close prisoners, now for the period of eighteen long months…. Three or four of them are female children, incapable, in the judgment of our laws, of the crime of murder or piracy, or, perhaps, of any other crime. …I appear here on the behalf of thirty-six individuals, the life and liberty of every one of whom depend on the decision of this Court….Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad. Delivered on February 24, and March 1, 1841 View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S.Adams, John Quincy, “I appear…on…behalf of thirty-six individuals, the life and liberty of every one…depend on…this court,” Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. subsequently reinterred in United First Parish Church. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Februinterment in the family burial ground at Quincy, Mass. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834 served from March 4, 1831, until his death chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-second through Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress) unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834 died in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1802 elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist party Minister to Russia 1809-1814 nominated and confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in February 1811 but declined to serve member of the commission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 Minister to England 1815-1817, assisted in concluding the convention of commerce with Great Britain Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President James Monroe 1817-1825 decision in the 1824 election of the President of the United States fell, according to the Constitution of the United States, upon the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had secured a majority of the electors chosen by the states, and Adams, who stood second to Andrew Jackson in the electoral vote, was chosen and served from March 4, 1825, to Maelected as a Republican to the U.S. appointed Minister to Netherlands 1794, Minister to Portugal 1796, Minister to Prussia 1797, and served until 1801 commissioned to make a commercial treaty with Sweden in 1798 elected to the Massachusetts State senate in 1802 unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. ADAMS, John Quincy, (son of John Adams, father of Charles Francis Adams, brother–in–law of William Stephens Smith), A Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts and 6th President of the United States born in Braintree, Mass., Jacquired his early education in Europe at the University of Leyden was graduated from Harvard University in 1787 studied law was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.
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