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"Introduction and Table of Contents", U.S. Congress. House. Africans Taken in the Amistad. 26th Congress., 1st sess., 1840.H. Document 185.
APRIL 15, 1840.
Read, and laid upon the table.
To the House of Representatives::
I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State,
with documents containing the information called for by their resolution of the 23d
instant.
M. VAN BUREN.
WASHINGTON, March 31, 1840
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, March 31, 1840.
The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d instant, requesting the President to communicate to that House, "if not incompatible with the public interest, copies of any demand made by the minister or other diplomatic representative of Spain in this country, of the surrender to him of the Africans taken in, or belonging to, the vessel called the Amistad; and of all correspondence between this Government and the said minister or diplomatic representative, and with any other foreign Government or minister thereof, relating thereto; also, copies of all instructions from the Department of State to the district attorney of the United States in the judicial district of Connecticut, and all reports of the said district attorney to the said department relating to that subject;" has the honor to lay before the President copies of all the correspondence and papers on the records and files of this department relative thereto, except a recent correspondence with the Spanish minister in regard to testimony prepared to be furnished in the future investigation of the cause of the Amistad before the tribunals of the United States.
JOHN FORSYTH.
To the PRESIDENT.
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Blair & Rives, printers.
LIST OF PAPERS
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Mr. Calderon to Mr. Forsyth, 6th September, 1839, and
translation.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Calderon, 16th September, 1839.
Mr. Calderon to Mr. Forsyth, 17th September, 1839,
and translation.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Calderon, 23d September, 1839.
Mr. Calderon to Mr. Forsyth, 29th September, 1839,
and translation.
Chevalier de Argaiz to Mr. Forsyth, 3d October, 1839,
and translation.
Mr. Forsyth to Chevalier de Argaiz, 24th October, 1839.
Chevalier de Argaiz to Mr. Forsyth, 5th November, 1839
and translation.
Acting Secretary of State to Chevalier de Argaiz, 22d
November, 1839.
Chevalier de Argaiz to Mr. Forsyth, 26th November,
1839, and translation.
Chevalier de Argaiz to Mr. Forsyth, 29th November,
1839, and translation.
Mr. Forsyth to Chevalier de Argaiz, 12th December,
1839.
Chevalier de Argaiz to Mr. Forsyth, 25th December,
1839, and translation.
Chevalier de Argaiz to Mr. Forsyth, 3Oth December,
1839, and translation.
Mr. Forsyth to Chevalier de Argaiz, 6th January, 1840.
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 5th September, 1839.
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 9th September, 1839.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird, 11th September, 1839.
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 21st September, 1839.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird, 23d September, 1839.
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 13th October, 1839.
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 5th November, 1839, enclosures
and translation
(including the passports of Ruiz, Montez, and papers fabricated on behalf of the
Amistad Africans).
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 14th November, 1839.
Acting Secretary of State (Aaron Vail) to Mr. Holabird,
18th November, 1839.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird, 6th January, 1840: extracts.
Mr. Holabird to Mr. Forsyth, 11th January, 1840: extracts.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird, 12th January, 1840: extracts.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Holabird, 17th January, 1840.
Opinion of the Attorney General.
Messrs. Staples and Sedgwick to the President, 13th
September, 1839.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Butler, 24th October, 1839.
Mr. Butler to Mr. Forsyth, 28th October, 1839, and
enclosures.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Butler, 9th November, 1839.
Mr. Butler to Mr. Forsyth (Aaron Vail), 18th November,
1839.
Department of State to Navy Department, 2d January,
1840: memorandum.
Mr. Paulding to Mr. Forsyth, 3d January, 1840.
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Paulding, 7th January, 1840, and
enclosure.
Annex to Document 185, 7/2/1840. Pedro Alcantara de Argaiz
to John Forsyth, October 22, 1839
