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"Case of Ruiz and Montez--Atrocious developments at New Haven." New York
Morning Herald, 23 Oct., 1839: 2.
The Case of Ruiz and Montez--Atrocious developments at New Haven.
The extraordinary arrest and imprisonment of Messrs. Ruiz and Montez, at he suit
of the Amistad savages, instigated by the abolitionists, will come up today before
Judge Ingles, for further review and examination. The same matter will also be brought
before Judge Oakley, to show cause why a discharge from jail should not be ordered.
It is expected, therefore, that some strange and curious developments will be made
relative to the conduct and intrigues of the abolitionists--the malignant interference
of Lewis Tappan,and the uses to which these savages have been put by the fanatics.
This matter, in connection with the abolition intrigues, is beginning to assume a
most revolting and audacious character--a character that makes the blood boil and
the heart burn. On the arrival of these savages in this country, with their hands
crimsoned with the bloods of several white men, they were seized upon by a band of
fanatics, who, under the name of humanity and religion, have been levying contributions
on the public while they were proposing to teach these savages the elements of religion
and civilization. All sorts of intrigues have been adopted to deceive the public
and to annoy and harass the foreigners, who hardly escaped with their lives from
the Amistad. Under the pupilage of the abolitionists, the savages have been made
the instrument of crime and wickedness, in order to gratify malignity and hate. There
can be no doubt but their instigators, whoever they are, are liable to an indictment
for subornation of perjury---and, we trust, that the friends of justice and humanity
at New Haven, will take speedy steps to inflict the just punishment provided by law
against such acts.
We do not speak at random. In this day's paper is a very important letter from our
correspondent at New Haven, whose accurate information and means of judging, are
of the amplest kind. From his statements, every calm mind must be satisfied that
the savages have sworn to what they know nothing of, and cannot substantiate. They
are ignorant of the nature of an oath, and cannot be held responsible for what they
are made to swear, but their aiders and abettors are the guilty parties on whom the
vengeance of the laws ought to fall.
But this is not all the horrors of the abolition intrigues. It seems that Jinqua
and his associates have been furnished secretly with knives. Who did this? Who would
do this? Is it not likely that those weapons were conveyed to the savages by the
same fanatics who would suborne them to perjury, in order to incarcerate Messrs.
Ruiz and Montez? Is not this the most probable supposition? And if so, for what intent
were they furnished with the weapons of murder? Was it to make the prison of New
Haven as red with the blood of the white man as the decks of the Amistad?
Humanity must shudder at such doings! religion hang her head! and justice cry aloud
for vengeance! If this is the first fruits of the lessons of religion and civilization
which have been taught these savages by the abolitionists, it is time for our courts
of justice to pause--and to inquire whether they ought to lend themselves to the
attempts of such fiends any longer. The first movements of the fanatics with these
negroes, only excited ridicule and contempt. Turning somersets at sixpence per head,
eating three diners per day, or kissing little white girls as they were handed up
to them by their abolition mothers, might be tolerated as the madness of the hours
that time would cure. But when we see falsehood, perjury, false imprisonment,and
preparations making among the savages for blood and massacre, it is full time to
ask whether our courts of justice are to tolerate such things any longer. Let us
know.
