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did not sustain the appeal, and the Africans
were therefore left in charge of the committee.
who sent them to their native land with a mis-
sionary.
10. Mr.. Adams, in speech made to the
House Of Representatives, March g 1S47, and
published In the National Intelligencer, stated:
That the Spanish minister had never demanded
the negroes as slaves, but as frecmen, as they
had been declared to be by the Supreme Court,
and that they should be deliyed up as assassns
that if they had been delivered they would have
been executed at Havana, in which case all
claim of Ruiz and Montez to them must have
been forfeited that there was not even shad-
ow of a pretence for the Spanish demand of in
demnity that such total perversion of the
whole subject, as made by the Spanish minister
and the Secretary of State, had never been wit
messed; that the demand, if successful, would
be perfect robbery committed on the people
OF the United States that neither their slave
dealers, nor the Spanish government on their
behalf, had any claims for the money asked for
whatever; and he prayed God to forbid that
any claims should ever be allowed by Congress
which rested on such Il false foundation.
16. Messrs Editors, refer your readers also
to the speech of Mr.. Adams, published after
the adjournment of Congress in 1914, which he
intended to deliver in the House; and to the
speech of Hon. ]. r. Giddings, delivered in the
House OF Representatives April Is, 1914, and
conclude by expressing an earnest desire that
the friends of freedom and justice in Congress
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necessary that. an adjournment should take
pace III the AFTERNOON IN order that une
Speaker and fellow piscator, at that time re-
porter of the Patriot, should get off on fishing
excursion. Business was pressing in the House,
but so was the desire of the Speaker to get to
the brook without delay. Sundry parties among
the members were asked to move an adjourn
ment; but no reasonable cause appearing to
their minds to justify that step, they severally
declined. The late Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, of
Portsmouth, was then member of the legisla-
ture, and although among the opposition was
made Chairman on the Judiciary-such was the
deep respect paid to his ability and integrity by
hls fellow legislators through their popular
Speaker. Mr.. Bartlett's word was almost an
oracle in eyerything-for in nothing he said or
did could the slightest indication of partizan-
ship be detected, for there was none in reality.
Knowing this fact and the weight of any prop
osition Mr.. Bartlett might make on the minds
OF the members, Speaker Baker, in his despair,
arose, and said, Speaking as quickly as he could)
to the House
"Gentlemen: it is moved by the gentleman
that the House do now adourn as many as
| are in favor of the motion will saw ave: those