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Slavers (Sarah), The U.S. 366 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0418 and id is 1 raw text is: 366 TIlE SLAVERS. (SARAL.) [Sup. Ct. Statement of the case. for the mere purpose of chartering her for an ordinary trading voyage. The charter-party is not produced, nor is any reason given for its non-production. The crew-list re- presented all the persons named on it as Americans born, and it was sworn to by Otto, but the proof shows conclu- sively, that no'.her the master nor mate were Americans, and deprives the oath, which represents the others as such, of all claim to credit. We do net think it necessary to examine the evidence more in detail. The case presents none of the marks of an honest transaction, but bears upon it such indications of the guilty purpose to employ the bark in the slave-trade, that we should require clear explanation by convincing proof to repel the conclusion that such was her destined employment. But there is no such explanation. There is no attempt to clear the case of the damaging inferences which the destina tion of the voyage, the character of the vessel and cargo, and the character and acts of the parties prominently connected with both, irresistibly suggest. We conclude, therefore, that both were rightly condemned by the District Court, and AF~iRm ITS DECREE. THE SLAVERS. (SAR~AH.) The principles of the preceding case (The Kate), redeclared in, this case, and a vessel bound to the west coast of Africa, condemned under cir- cumstances-individually not very strong, but collectively of weigat-- raising a presumption, which there was no attempt to overcome by explanation, that she was about to engage in the slave-trade. LIKE the preceding case, this was a libel of forfeiture, filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, against a vessel and cargo, under the 1st section of the act of Congress of 22d March, 1794,* and the 2d of that of 20th April, 1818,t prohibiting persons engaging in the slave- trade. *I Stat. at Large, 347- -t 3 Id. 450.

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