3-17-1841: Former President John Quincy Adams: “without warrant of law, by force, by firearms, seizes and disarms them..."

Former President John Quincy Adams, before the U.S. Supreme Court, United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 (1841), “without warrant of law, by force, by firearms, seizes and disarms them, then being in the peace of that commonwealth and of the United States . . . by what law it was done, and how far the principle it embraces is to be carried.”, March 17, 1841