Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 to Roger S. Baldwin

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GLC00582
GLC#
GLC00582
Type
Letters
Date
November 11, 1840
Author/Creator
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Title
to Roger S. Baldwin
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 24.2 cm, Width: 17.9 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Slavery & Anti-slavery

Former United States President Adams writes to Baldwin, a lawyer and abolitionist. He acknowledges the receipt of Baldwin's narrative of the Amistad case, to be tried before the Supreme Court. He writes "I consented with extreme reluctance at the urgent request of Mr. Lewis Tappan and Mr. Ellis Gray Loring, to appear before the Court as one of the Counsel for these unfortunate men. My reluctance was founded entirely and exclusively upon the consciousness of my own incompetence to do justice to their cause. In every other point of view there is in my estimation no higher object upon earth of ambition than to occupy that position." He confirms plans to meet with Baldwin and discuss the case.

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