"The constant and perpetual will to secure to every one HIS OWN right."Īnd in a Court of Justice, where there are two parties present, justice demands that the rights of each party should be allowed to himself, as well as that each party has a right, to be secured and protected by the Court. "Constans et perpetua voluntas, jus suum cuique tribuendi." In the Institutes of Justinian, nearly 2000 years ago, and as it is felt and understood by all who understand human relations and human rights, is. And in saying so very trivial a thing, I should not on any other occasion, perhaps, be warranted in asking the Court to consider what justice is. I therefore proceed immediately to say that, in a consideration of this case, I derive, in the distress I feel both for myself and my clients, consolation from two sources-first, that the rights of my clients to their lives and liberties have already been defended by my learned friend and colleague in so able and complete a manner as leaves me scarcely anything to say, and I feel that such full justice has been done to their interests, that any fault or imperfection of mine will merely be attributed to its true cause and secondly, I derive consolation from the thought that this Court is a Court of JUSTICE. But as I am unwilling to employ one moment of the time of the Court in anything that regards my own personal situation, I shall reserve what few observations I may think necessary to offer as an apology till the close of my argument on the merits of the question. In rising to address this Court as one of its attorneys and counsellors, regularly admitted at a great distance of time, I feel that an apology might well be expected where I shall perhaps be more likely to exhibit at once the infirmities of age and the inexperience of youth, than to render those services to the individuals whose lives and liberties are at the disposal of this Court which I would most earnestly desire to render. REPORTED IN THE 10TH, 11TH AND 12TH VOLUMES OF WHEATON'S REPORTS.Īrgument of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court of the United States WITH A REVIEW OF THE CASE OF THE ANTELOPE, GEDNEY,ĭELIVERED ON THE 24th OF FEBRUARY AND 1st OF MARCH, 1841. Gedney 1841ĬAPTURED IN THE SCHOONER AMISTAD, BY LIEUT. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs.
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