The Amistad: The Slave Revolt and Legal Case that Changed the World by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2014-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

The only inquiries, then, that present themselves, are,

1. Has ‘due and sufficient proof concerning the property thereof’ been made?

2. If so, have the United States a right to interpose in the manner they have done, to obtain its restoration to the Spanish owners?

If these inquiries result in the affirmative, then the decree of the Circuit Court was erroneous, and ought to be reversed.”

In answering the questions he had just posed, Gilpin set forth a number of arguments:

“It is submitted that there has been due and sufficient proof concerning the property to authorize its restoration.

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