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Have We Any Thing To Do With Slavery?

Have We Any Thing To Do With Slavery? image
Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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We are indcbted to the Hon. J. R. Giddings í'ov a copy of the follovin bilí, reported April 10. by the committee on Foreign AfFairs, read and referrcd to the committee of the whole House: A BiLL TO ÏNDEMNIFY THE OWNERS OF THE SpANISH SCIIOONKR A.MISTAD. Be il enacted hj the Sendte and House of Bcpresemlalives of the United States of America in Congress assembïed, That the sum of seventy thousand dollars, out of any money In the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby. directed to be paid to the Spanish minister in the (Jnitcd States, to indemnify the owners of the Spanish schooner Amistad, for the unlavful seizure, detention, and salvage allowed of that vessel and her cargo, and liberation of the slaves on board of her, in the year one thousand eight hundred and foriy, and afterwards, during their detention, and by their liberation. Let the people understand the matter, and then say whether we have any thing to do with slavery?

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Signal of Liberty
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