The Treaty of Washington: Letters from Hon. William Beach Lawrence, LL. D.Hammond, Angell & Company, printers, 1871 - 25 páginas |
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... prize cases " decided by the Supreme Court of the United States . A capture was made as early as the 12th of May ... prizes would constitute a legitimate claim against the United States . Nor is it a slight evidence of the fallacy of ...
... prize cases " decided by the Supreme Court of the United States . A capture was made as early as the 12th of May ... prizes would constitute a legitimate claim against the United States . Nor is it a slight evidence of the fallacy of ...
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... prizes made by them or by public cruisers , provided it does it equally as to both parties , and though a prize court cannot sit in a neutral country , prizes taken into a neutral port may be condemned in the courts of the belligerent ...
... prizes made by them or by public cruisers , provided it does it equally as to both parties , and though a prize court cannot sit in a neutral country , prizes taken into a neutral port may be condemned in the courts of the belligerent ...
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... prizes into our ports , while those of her enemy were forbidden to enter except for stress of weather ; and the difficulties which it occasioned are familiar to all conversant with our early diplomatic history . 2 It does not seem very ...
... prizes into our ports , while those of her enemy were forbidden to enter except for stress of weather ; and the difficulties which it occasioned are familiar to all conversant with our early diplomatic history . 2 It does not seem very ...
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... prizes into the ports of the United States . The grievance was not that she sent her prizes there , a right which England did not dispute , but that she used our ports for the purpose of fitting out privateers to cruize against English ...
... prizes into the ports of the United States . The grievance was not that she sent her prizes there , a right which England did not dispute , but that she used our ports for the purpose of fitting out privateers to cruize against English ...
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... prizes were brought into our ports , and were therefore , in a certain sense , within our power , it was not , besides the danger that we incurred from France , an easy task for our govern- ment to comply with the demands for ...
... prizes were brought into our ports , and were therefore , in a certain sense , within our power , it was not , besides the danger that we incurred from France , an easy task for our govern- ment to comply with the demands for ...
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Página 19 - First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 24 - The navigation of the river St. Lawrence, ascending and descending, from the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, where it ceases to form the boundary between the two countries, from, to, and into the sea, shall forever remain free and open for the purposes of commerce to the citizens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of Great Britain, or of the Dominion of Canada, not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation.
Página 25 - The purchase of arms and military accoutrements by an agent of the french Government, in this Country, with an intent to export them to France, is the subject of another of the memorials. Of this fact we are equally uninformed, as of the former. Our citizens have been always free to make, vend, and export arms. It is the constant occupation and livelihood of some of them. To suppress their callings, the only means perhaps of their subsistence...
Página 15 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Página 16 - The United States, in that case, would expect to refer the whole controversy just as it is found in the correspondence which has taken place between the two governments, with such further evidence and arguments as either party may desire, without imposing restrictions, conditions, or limitations upon the umpire, and without waiving any principle or argument on either side.