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Richmond Enquirer, November 5, 1839
ANOTHER ABOLITION ARREST.--Senor Ruiz was again arrested yesterday at the suit of
Tonni, one of the newly caught negroes at New Haven, for alleged assault and battery
and false imprisonment. The writ upon which he was arrested, was sued out before
Judge Edwards, in the Circuit Court, who ordered defendant to give bail in the sum
of $800. Ruiz did not of course procure the requisite bail, being still confined
in defau [illegible letters] giving $250 bail ordered by Judge Oakley, in the case
of Cinquez. Senor Montez, on being liberated by Judge Oakley, (as mentioned by us
a few days since,) immediately took passage for Neuvitas, Cuba, and sailed on Monday
in the brig Texas. If the prime movers in these arrests can justify this worse than
savage conduct towards the unfortunate strangers who were brought upon our shores
by the mischances of the sea, we hope for decency’s sake they will do so publicly.
As the matter now stands, the weight of a single straw might bring down public indignation
upon them, in a manner that will convince them that they have gone too far. But perhaps
such an outbreak would consummate the most ardent desire of some of the Mawworms
and Cantwells among our ultra-Abolitionists. They “likes to be persecuted,” as the
man in the play says. There are, however, some sensible and talented gentlemen engaged
in the cause, who we are sure would never make common cause with black manstealers,
caught in their own traps. We are familiar with all the arguments in favor of these
“poor ignorant Africans,” yet we do still condemn them as murderers, ignorance being
no excuse for such a crime. Those of the Abolitionists who are disposed to dispute
us on this point, we would advise to read their Bibles, and see if we are not there
justified in our position. N. Y. Dispatch
