The Amistad claim

history of the case, decision of the Judiciary, comity of the various departments of government, construction of treaties, law of nations, natural rights of persons, duty of all to sustain the doctrines on which our government was founded : speech of Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, Dec. 21, 1853, in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, on the motion to refer the President's annual message to the appropriate committees