Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the United States I
Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the United States I
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
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I mention this to show that the value of a passport, according to the rules of those coun. Tries where such things are used, depends on the description of the person, arid this is all left blank in the paper here presented us as a passport. There is not a particle of description by which even a single individual named could be identified. It is not worth a cent. I do not say it is a forgery, but I say its incompe- tency to answer the purpose of a passport is apparent on the face of it. Who know...s, or how is this Court to ascertain, that the persons named in this paper are the same with those taken in the Amistad"? No court, no tribunal, no officer, would accept such a document as a passport. And will this Court grant its decree in a case affecting both liberty and life on that paper ? It is im- possible. I now come to the case of the Antelope, as reported in 10 Wheaton, 66, and I ask particular attention to this case, not only because it brings a show of authority in favor of the delivery up "of slaves, but because I feel bound to entreat the Court, whether they find a principle settled by that case or not, to settle the question now upon further and mature consideration.
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