* * * Enough will remain uncontradicted by
competent testimony to brand with everlasting infamy all who were
immediately concerned in the business; and to bring a blush of shame
on the cheek of every one who feels the least interest in the memory
of any one who, no matter how remotely, was a party to so mean and yet
so horrible an outrage. * * * The authors and abettors of the outrages
to which reference has been made will stand convicted not only of the
most heartless criminality against the laws of humanity and the laws
of God, but of the most flagrant violation of the Laws of Nations, and
the Law of the Land."
These extracts are all taken from the Introduction to Captain Dring's
Recollections, written by Mr. H. B. Dawson, in June, 1865.
Captain Dring was born in Newport, R. I., on the third of August,
1758. He died in August, 1825, in Providence, R. I., and was about 67
years of age at the time of his death. He was many years in the
merchant service, and wrote his recollections in 1824.
"I was first confined on the Good Hope, in the year 1779, then lying
in the North River opposite the city of New York, but after a
confinement of more than four months, I succeeded in making my escape
to the Jersey shore."
Captain Dring is said to have been one of the party who escaped from
the Good Hope in October, 1779. The New Jersey papers thus described
the escape.
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