New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-24
AMrsTAD NEGRoES-SoUTHERN JOURNALS.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, WCdncgd


WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 81, 1853
Mr. Ciddngs in his speech to-day addressed the Com
utice on the case Of the Amstad negroes, and the re-
concentration of the President tOcompcnsate their KID
nappers for the loss Of their property Mr. g. wen
into the history Of the case aud charged the Chairman
Of the Committee Ofl0regn Relations OF inc year ioi@
c j. IngcTsoll. with a gross and apparently Intentions!
misstatement of facts in his report ON the subject
The report states that the Amistad was taken pos
session ofby United States vessel on the 10Th August
1910 and then argues from This false statement that
the negroes had been slaves IN Cuba fourteen months
Mr. Gddrcs denounced this statement as ut ry alse,
and called the attention Of theprescnt Chairman JUICE
Bayv TO it, The latter gentleman took scat near MI
q and listened attentvey He stands pledged to show
that Mr. c. has committed serious errors OF lact ana
reasoning but whether he viii undertake TO defend inc
statement of Mr. IngersO as to the date oi the ARRIVAL
Of the Amistad on our shores, could not understand
At any rate such an attempt viii prove signal failure
The files of any newspaper or periodical VIII prove that
the Anistad arrived in August lS5J Turning to iaL-
ards Register commercial journal published in Phil
adelplia for Sept IL, 1889, find an account OF the
affair copied from The Ner lork SEa
Twill here quote passage from lnger'olis Report
in order that YOUR readers may what sort Of prac-
tee that liberty loving patriot resored To IN order 10
procure an appropriation of s. goo in favor oil span
ISL kidnappers who had lost their prey Inc REPORT
says ,.s, L.
the Court TO be Africans just kidnapped from tho saVaS
state as nut the record for them states that they We're
kidnaped from Africa the 18th Of A2rL less, and thence
tTsrdrted to Cuba the l2th June 1889 OF they
had been there fourteen months by this Judicial chron2o
ey before they were taken on board the Ami,tld fes
he very next sentence Of tho District judges decree,
CHARGES Ruiz and Monoz with their purchase only fifteen
dave after their arrival at Havana
This false inference is based the ialsohood con-
tanned in the second paragraph O. the report above al
verted to- where il is stated in the TEEN oil history
that the capture of the Amstad took place in August
ls4O ANY one who has access to ancwspGper he can
satisfy himself of the utter alsy OF this statement as
Ihave shown above TWAS in MIR. Wcbsters reply 10
the false charges of this Same Mr. ngerSoi that he eX-
pressed himself by circuml0cati0n which II Wtuer
than that which Shakspere calls the soul OF Wiz Alr
President there is little mOnOsyllabe an the Eng
"hsh language which gentlemen are ayersc to usln9
"but which some men are base enough to deserve
The Hards are BY no means pleased with the cour-
age Of the Southern Democracy. They evidently eX-
pected general abandonment OF the Administration oy
the South when Dickinson aud Bronson were thr0Wn
overheard But they have yet TO learn that the pow
erty Of the Southern press places II completely under
the control of the dispensing power particularly with
the most ultra school of Slavery Propagandts TO keep
them in countCnance. On this subject a Northern
Hard" expressed his feelings to me by figure which
will be regarded as strong if not pOetcal He says
that "in future the Southern Democracy may skin
their own skuuks." 1t must be confessed that the
business of SHINING skunAs for the suth BY the
Northern Democracy has not paid rs We'll as some
other branches of trade.
Gerrit Smith is engaged in preparing his speech for
publication He has established high reputation Tor
oratory Ii has been remarked that his voice filed the
House so completely that every present might hear
distinctly. This is rare feat. / have never known
any speaker equal to il before. g.