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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
French, and in German, under the civil law, as old as the days of Justinian, but I will come down to what has been deemed high Republican authority, that of John Quincy Adams. We had like controversies with Great Britain in 1783 and in 1816, upon the subject of slave emancipation, that we have now. Great Britain, pending the revo or to the West Indies, there to be re-enslaved; and in the war of 1812. Great Britain exercised a like power over this slave property of the United States. John Quincy Adams, at a Minister to England, as Secretary of State of the United States, wrote to the British authorities that-- "They (the British) had no right to make without special cause, might as well be pretended to be a law of war, or the right to use poisoned weapons, or to assassinate." This is the language of John Quincy Adams, in his correspondence with the British Government upon the subject of slaves emancipated during the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812. Under this r