New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-23
POERIO IND CNGUE-rBB DIFFER
ENCE.

geOIs on condition OF perpe'uh oshsclsh WIN
on the v.s,aae 10 America, whence their tyreepics
Government had bsIisted them, they rose IN nu-
tisy. took possession Of the vessel, and demanded
that the csp Ain steer 70 tke nearest Brtsh Pori
He reai.ttd at frst, but finally, 10 save his life,
Welded. They kspt watch over the compass, 10
see thst be did not deceive them, TIL the ,hip az
ehored on TIE Irish COST On laDdiDg, they kisses
the earth in transports JOY. The telegraph sent
the rews of their arrival to Londoo, where il wss
bslea Eith lively satisfaction BY Court, Parliament
prers and people. It Wst announced the next day
in the Commons, Amid loud applause. A Commit
tee to tender taem a national testimonial was or.
gained, 90 which the chiefs Of psrtieA Ninis-
ters and ex-Ainisters, PshnerstoD, Lyndburst
Broue cam and Russell, were proud 10 ear, then
names. 4 perfect Ovstion attends their steps
wherever they move. In 6ne the organs Of public
opinion in the t,res Kins doms applaud their deeds
aud welcome them 70 Their shores.
Some Of The features Of this singular csse suggest
resemblance, and contrasts between it and trans
acton which occurred in our own country some
tine ego. When the sultry sur of az Assu.t morn
ing. in the year 1889, lifted the fog from Long
Island Sound, il disclosed TO Lieut. Gedpey Of tbs
U. S. brig Washington, low, black schooner lying
at anchor near CulOden Point The deck Of the
,u, picious. LOOKING craft s~afmed with negroes Of
the blacklist hue, in the midst Of whom stood two
persons of lighter complexion, making frantic signs
to the brig, as If desiring succOr. The ve'el
turned cut 10 be the Amistad, belonging 70 Cuba
Tie negroes forty four in number, were recently
from Africa. The two whites, jose. Ruiz and
Pedro Montez by name, were Spani,tdS, and
claimed to own the negroes as slaves. Lieut. Ged.
ney took possession Of the Anistst and its human
cargo, and towed ,tem into New London barbor'
The history of this novel ease from its origin down
10 this point was briefly this:
These negroes were natives of the Mendi coun'
try, in the interior Of Africa. Two of them were
men Of position in their tropical horHei some were
platter, and traders; several were children. IL
April, 1889, they were seized hurried to the coast
and, with five or six hundred Others, forced on
board slave-sbip ana carried TO Hsysna. While
in the barracooDs Of that city, fftythree of them
were bought by Ruiz and Montez, who put them Oh
board the Amistad, and, concealing the fact thai
they we're imported Africans, shipped them for
Cuban port few hundred miles distant, Ruiz and
Msntez accompanying the cargo. A quarrel broke
out, on the pssssge, between the captain Add the
negroes. He severely ssourged come OF them.
They rose uoOn him. and put him, and the coos
who came 10 his aid, to death. The sailors fed IL
the schoOneF's boat.
TIE leader in this revolt was Cingue, heros
yourg African, Of powerful frame, OF remarkable
mind, endowed BY nature with hish qusn6es OF
command, and able to rouse his comrades to frenzy
BY soul stirring eloquenoe. He assumed control o.
the vessel and turned her head toward the rlans
sun, the lard of bis home The two SPsnl,rd'-
who knew something of navigation, promised 10
steer Der for Afrca if the insurgents would spare
their lives They kept their promise IN the day
time, when the eye of Cinsus wM upon them, ou,
in the night they Invariably ibifted her course
back TO the wet. After two months of such navl'
CATION, the winds and currents carried the Amissad
to the ,,ot where she was SO zsdb By Lieut. Gedney
And now what vas the conduct of our Govern
men, toward these simple Africans, torn from 'hed
ONES, shipped 70 Cuba IN violation Of treaties b.
tween Spsn and this country, aud who had merely
assumed the rights that "God and Nsture" gave
;hemi They were seized BY the Marshal OF COnaectl-
.ut ano thrownnto prison. Cingue va, putin chains.
All the machinery OF the Federal Courts Vas i'm.
metiately put into Iequision 70 reduce fhem again
% slavery, or TO send them back to Cubsto De tired
for alls sed piracy and murder on the high seas.
9edney filed a libel against schooner and negroes
tor salvage. Ruiz and Moo.eE put in claim for
The negroes as property, and the Spanish Minister,
through tie United States District Attorney, de
handed that they be returned 20 Cuba for trial
Our Government turned cold shoulder upon
Gedney, but warmly sympathized with the pirates
Ruiz and Montez, and rendered it's whole heart and
Il. its officials 10 the Casallero Pedro Alcsntara Ar
aaiz, Minister of Her Catholic Majesty, who, in
,tesd of hiding his representative head for being
sAugbt 10 carrying on the Slaye-trade, brazeny de-
mar ded that these victims Of piracy and fraud should
be sent TO the Captain General Of Cuba there, pei
lsp,, TO be drawn and qusrtsted-and the Connect
cut District Attorney, BY command Of President
Martin Van Buren,, made this " suggestion" 90 the
records of the Court And, from the President
down, through John Forsyth, Secretary Of State,
James h. Psuldins, Secretary Of the Navy, aud
Felix GrupdS Attorney General, to William S.
doabird AID Norris Wilcox, Attorney and Marshal
tor the Di'tnc! Of Connecticut all grades of officials
pied their power and skill to push these simple
strangers into the jaws Of Spanish ferocity. Tsey
irsggoS them into Court, not to protect them, bat
only that legal ferns might seem to sanction sseir
mmolation. They were eftcious in their advice to
he Judge and tbs Attorney aud the Mar,haL Taey