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![handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0407 and id is 1 raw text is: Dec. 1864.] THE SLAVERS. (WEATHERGAGE.)
Statement of the case.
hands, and it is fully shown that he signed receipts foi
cargo. While in the act of employing the seaman, when
clearly he was acting as master of the vessel, he stated that
he was going to the coast of Africa, and that he was to be
master of the vessel. He also said he was going black-
birding, and endeavored to persuade the witness to enlist
and go with him, by promises of large profits. Among other
things, he also stated that they would be gone about four
months, and that the witness, if he would go, would have
three or four thousand dollars when he got back; and on
another occasion, he stated that the bark was going on a
trading voyage to the African coast, and would probably
bring back some negroes. Viewed in connection with the
circumstantial evidence, these statements are regarded as
affording full proof of the truth of the allegations contained
in the libel of information. Such were the views of the
District and Circuit Courts, and we have no doubt they are
correct.
The decree of the Circuit Court is therefore
AriFnRmED.
THE SLAVERS. (WEATHERGAGE.)
The general principle declared in Th Kate and of The Sarah (supra, pp. 866,
872) acted on in a case of the same general type, but where the facts
were more close.
Where the size, build, equipment, and cargo of a vessel-the non-appear-
ance and doubtful existence of her asserted owners-the non-production
by the claimant of important witnesses, and other circumstances, lead
to a presumption that her purpose is to engage in the slave-trade, and
no attempt is made to repel that presumption by explaining the suspi-
cious circumstances, the vessel may be condemned as a slaver. The
fact that she is cleared for China, does not of itself repel the presump-
tion, the clearance being vid Ambriz, a Portuguese port on the west
coast of Africa, and that port being within about one hundred miles of
the Slave-coast.
THIs, like the two preceding cases, was a libel filed in the
District Court for the Southern District of New York, against](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ussccases0407&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)