Tarry at home travels . orked itself to the denouementhere. The Amistad was a slave ship. She hadbrought from Africa to Havana a cargo of Havana some Spanish planter bought thecargo, pretty much as it stood, made perhapssome additions there, and they were to be carriedin the Amistad to his plantation. The poorfellows had had enough of slave ships, and theyrose on the Portuguese crew and turned the blacks were in command and the whites werethe prisoners. Then where were they to go?Some divine inspiration, I do not know what,bade them steer north. They understood Ameri-can
Tarry at home travels . orked itself to the denouementhere. The Amistad was a slave ship. She hadbrought from Africa to Havana a cargo of Havana some Spanish planter bought thecargo, pretty much as it stood, made perhapssome additions there, and they were to be carriedin the Amistad to his plantation. The poorfellows had had enough of slave ships, and theyrose on the Portuguese crew and turned the blacks were in command and the whites werethe prisoners. Then where were they to go?Some divine inspiration, I do not know what,bade them steer north. They understood Ameri-can politics better than Mr. Van Buren did whowas the President at that time, and they knewthat North meant freedom. So they sailed northand north and north till a revenue cutter stumbledupon them off Long Island and brought theminto a Connecticut harbor. Who says there is no Providence when hereads that Connecticut farmers received thesepoor waifs struggling to be free? Well, thingswere not then just what they are now. RuGEK Sherman Baldwin. 263 CONNECTICUT 265 Van Buren, a Northern man with Southernprinciples, was President. He hated to bid hisConnecticut marshal set these people free. Hedid his very best to have them return to what you like to-day about him and his,you have to account for that Amistad businesssomehow. But thanks to King Alfred and Runny-mede, John Davenport, and Hooker here in Con-necticut, we have something which is calledhabeas corpus, and so our Amistad negroes cansue out their habeas corpus in a Connecticut court,and so Martin Van Buren and the whole Southerncrew will be put to trial. And Roger ShermanBaldwin — a good name for the business — andJohn Quincy Adams, a name as good, had tomaintain the right of freedom in all the so at last it comes to Washington, and thecrisis comes before the Supreme Court. Sendover to the Public Library and get John QuincyAdamss diary, which tells the story of that had not appeared in c
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