Posted on 03/24/2010 3:22:34 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
American Minute for March 24th:
William Jay, son of the First Supreme Court Chief Justice, helped found New York City's Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.
His son, John Jay, was manager of New York Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society in 1834.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story helped establish the illegality of the slave trade in the 1844 Amistad case.
Salmon P. Chase, appointed Chief Justice by Lincoln, defended so many escaped slaves in his career he was nicknamed "Attorney-General of Fugitive Slaves."
Cassius Marcellus Clay, diplomat to Russia for Lincoln and Grant, founded the anti-slavery journal True American in 1845 and helped found the Republican party in 1854.
Rufus King, born MARCH 24, 1755, was one of the youngest signers of the U.S. Constitution, only 32 years old. A Harvard graduate, Rufus King was an aide to General Sullivan during the Revolutionary War. Rufus King later served as U.S. Minister to England and was a Senator from New York.
In a speech made before the Senate at the time Missouri was petitioning for statehood, Rufus King stated: "I hold that all laws or compacts imposing any such condition as slavery upon any human being are absolutely void because they are contrary to the law of nature, which is the law of God."
A good read since I knew nothing of this information.
Pinging you to another informative American Minute.
Will respond later tonight to any comments.
Maybe some of you already knew about Rufus King. I did not.
Enjoy!
Rufus King: “I hold that all laws or compacts imposing any such condition as slavery upon any human being are absolutely void because they are contrary to the law of nature, which is the law of God.”
Amen!
There is a high school in Milwaukee named after Rufus King. Thank you for telling me who he was.
The foreign slave trade into the US had been illegal since 1808 and was classified as a species of piracy. Although we had to wait till the Lincoln administration to actually hang one of the pirates.
The Amistad case established that international law meant that all slaves transported from Africa were legally free.
This caught My EYE!
When I was a kid, the Great Olympic Boxing Champ Cassius Clay (obviously named after this Anti-Slavery hero)became a member of the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Mohammed Ali.
The supreme irony is that in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, there were probably Thousands of SLAVE CATCHERS and SLAVE TRADERS who bore THAT VERY NAME.
Just sayin'.
|
|
|||
Gods |
Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
||
|
· Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists · |
|||
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.