 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...and never lose again. (To John Adams, 1818. C. VII., 107.) IMPRESSMENT. — The simplest rule will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board her are such. If they apprehend that our vessels might thus become asylums for the fugitives of their... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 408 pages
...Minister at London, dated June 11, 1792, he announced the American doctrine. " The simplest rule will be, that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board her are such." ! In another letter to the same minister, dated October 12, 1792, he calls attention... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 1060 pages
...service of the enemy. " The simplest rule," declared Jefferson, when Secretary of State, " will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such." Efforts were repeatedly made by the United States to adjust the controversy, but in vain. President... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...treaty, but by a letter from Webster to Ashburton, repeating the rule originally laid down by Jefferson that "the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such," adding, as the present and future principle of the American government, that " in every regularly documented... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 548 pages
...government would be armed with legal authority to impress the whole of our seamen. The simplest rule will be that the vessel being American, shall be evidence that the seamen on board her are such. If they apprehend that our vessels might thus become asylums for the fugitives of their... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1140 pages
...incipient steps to become American citizens, do not apply to them. "The ride laid down by the distinguished person who first held the office of Secretary of State,...by one of the most eminent of American statesmen, one of my predecessors, that ' in every regularly documented merchant vessel the crew who navigate... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1144 pages
...steps to become American citizens, do not apply to them. " The rule laid down by the distinguished person who first held the office of Secretary of State,...by one of the most eminent of American statesmen, one of my predecessors, that ' in every regularly documented merchant vessel the crew who navigate... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1906 - 468 pages
...Secretary Webster to Lord Ashburton, repeating the rule at first laid down by President Jefferson " that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board arc such," and adding that thereafter " in every regularly-documented American merchant vessel the... | |
 | World history - 1914 - 576 pages
...repeating the "j^88rule at first laid down by President Jefferson " that the vessel being Question. American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such," and adding that thereafter " in every regularly-documented American merchant vessel the crew who navigate... | |
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... the simplest rule will be that the vessel being American shall be evidence that the seamen on board are such. 
