| Henry Montgomery - 1853 - 484 páginas
...British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great high way of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons...the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the laws of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction... | |
| William Cothren - 1854 - 864 páginas
...been in the continual practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it;...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. That so far from British subjects alone being affected by this practice, under the pretext of searching... | |
| William Cothren - 1854 - 872 páginas
...practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carryingoflf persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. That so far from British subjects alone being affected by this practice, under the pretext of searching... | |
| William Cothren - 1854 - 878 páginas
...war message of President Madison, we learn as causes for the declaration, that British cruisers had been in the continual practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carryingoffpersons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded... | |
| United States. President - 1854 - 616 páginas
...the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded... | |
| Andrew White Young - 1855 - 1032 páginas
...seamen was first mentioned. Persons sailing under the American flag had been seized and carried off, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. Under the pretext of searching our vessels for her own subjects, thousands of American citizens had... | |
| George Coggeshall - 1856 - 514 páginas
...cruisers .have been in the continued practice of .. violating the American flag on the great high way of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons...sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a Belligerent f ignt, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British... | |
| 1861 - 178 páginas
...deeply upon all our readers : — British cruisers [says the President] have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...no laws can operate but the law of nations and the law of the country to which the vessels belong. . . Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases... | |
| John George Phillimore - 1861 - 36 páginas
...deeply upon all our readers : — British cruisers [says the President] have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...no laws can operate but the law of nations and the law of the country to which the vessels belong. . . Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases... | |
| George Coggeshall - 1861 - 576 páginas
...British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great high way of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in theexercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal... | |
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