Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1869 - Alabama claims |
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... , at an earlier day of publication , and before a larger circle of readers than I should otherwise have had an opportunity of addressing . To those who took an interest in that communication I GENERAL APPENDIX , NO . II . 13.
... , at an earlier day of publication , and before a larger circle of readers than I should otherwise have had an opportunity of addressing . To those who took an interest in that communication I GENERAL APPENDIX , NO . II . 13.
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... took occasion to protest emphatically against " speeches declaring that this country [ England ] has behaved wrongfully to the United States , " as showing England's enemies " that there is a party [ here at home ] ready to take up the ...
... took occasion to protest emphatically against " speeches declaring that this country [ England ] has behaved wrongfully to the United States , " as showing England's enemies " that there is a party [ here at home ] ready to take up the ...
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... took effect was April 30 , it will be found in the decision of the United States Supreme Court in " the Prize Cases , " reported in 2d Black's Reports , p . 635 , where the precise question of this date arose , involving captures of ...
... took effect was April 30 , it will be found in the decision of the United States Supreme Court in " the Prize Cases , " reported in 2d Black's Reports , p . 635 , where the precise question of this date arose , involving captures of ...
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... took part in the war , they might find themselves hung , upon American principles , long before diplomacy could come to their relief . Perhaps these declarations of a lord chancellor and two ex - chancellors , to say nothing of the ...
... took part in the war , they might find themselves hung , upon American principles , long before diplomacy could come to their relief . Perhaps these declarations of a lord chancellor and two ex - chancellors , to say nothing of the ...
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... took it upon themselves , without waiting for an official notification of the terms of the blockade , to treat such a blockade as tantamount to a declaration of war , and thereupon proclaimed belligerency and belligerent equality . Can ...
... took it upon themselves , without waiting for an official notification of the terms of the blockade , to treat such a blockade as tantamount to a declaration of war , and thereupon proclaimed belligerency and belligerent equality . Can ...
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Page 91 - ... with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or State, or of any colony, district, or people...
Page 63 - That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Page 348 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 87 - ... in the service of or for or under or in aid of any person or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any foreign country...
Page 163 - ... to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace.
Page 87 - ... fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the discretion of the Court in which such offender shall be convicted...
Page 62 - An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect.
Page 90 - States for any ship or vessel to the intent that she may be employed as aforesaid. 10. Increasing or augmenting, or procuring to be increased or augmented, or knowingly being concerned in increasing or augmenting, the force of any ship of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel which at...
Page 171 - ... we, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation: And we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to govern themselves accordingly, and to observe a strict neutrality...
Page 17 - WHEREAS we are happily at peace with all sovereigns, powers, and states : And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced between the government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America...