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"Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird, 23d September, 1839." U.S. Congress. House. Africans Taken in the Amistad. 26th Congress., 1st sess., 1840.H. Doc. 185.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, September 23, 1839.
SIR: It is necessary to a just decision on the various points
presenting themselves for the President's consideration, in the case of the Spanish
schooner "Amistad," that this department should be furnished with a copy
of the ship's papers, together with a transcript of the proceedings of the court
of inquiry held by the district judge on board the vessel, to which you refer in
your letter of the 5th instant, and on which the blacks were imprisoned for the alleged
murder of the captain and mate. I have, therefore, to request that you will transmit
to me, with as little delay as practicable, copies of the papers, and of the evidence
aforementioned.
1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN FORSYTH.
W. S. HOLABIRD, Esq.,
U. S. Attorney for the Dist. of Conn., Hartford.
