 | 1850 - 644 Seiten
...therefore, must necessarily be considered as thenceforward constituting two separate bodies. They stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who...being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms." Thus, then, it was evident that the revolution in Sicily was a civil war, and the contending... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 692 Seiten
...pro' nounce on which side the right or the wrong ' belongs? On earth they have no common supe' rior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the ' same predicament...engage in ' a contest, and, being unable to come to an agree1 ment, have recourse to arras." I will now, sir, cite another highly approved and more modern... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 696 Seiten
...pro' nounce on which side the right or the wrong ' belongs? On earth they have no common supe' rior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the ' same predicament...engage in ' a contest, and, being unable to come to an agree' ment, have recourse to arms." I will now, sir, cite another highly approved and more modern... | |
 | Emer de Vattel - 1852 - 666 Seiten
...shall pronounce on which side the right or the wrong lies ? On earth they have no common superior. They stand therefore in precisely the same predicament as two nations, who engage in a contest, revoked the concessions which he had populace, but he suffered the amnesty been obliged to make to... | |
 | Emer de Vattel, Edward Duncan Ingraham - 1852 - 670 Seiten
...who shall pronounce on which side the right or the wrong lies? On earth they have no common superior. They stand therefore in precisely the same predicament as two nations, who engage in a contest, •f, 293. A civil war produces two independent parties. revoked the concessions which he had popnlace,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 696 Seiten
...pro' nounce on which side the right or the wrong ' belongs? On earth they have no common supe' rior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the ' same predicament as two nations who engage in 1 a contest, and, being unable to come toan agree' ment, have recourse to arras." I will now, sir,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 756 Seiten
...shall pronounce on which side the right or the wrong belongs ? On earth they have no common superior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the same predicament...being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms." We have been exultingly told by Mr. Talleyrand, and it has been echoed from this Chamber by... | |
 | 1865 - 612 Seiten
...On each they have no " common superior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the same pre" dicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and being unable " to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms. " This being the case, it is very evident that the common laws of " war — those maxims of humanity,... | |
 | 1860 - 152 Seiten
...n "time, two separated bodies, two distinct societies, standing in precisely the same pre" dicnment as two nations who engage in a contest, and being unable to come to an ngree"ment, have recourse to arms." Here is found no limitation of such right. They are not considered... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - 1861 - 1102 Seiten
...attended with a strong desire and a fixed purpose that the war shall be as short and accompanied witn as little suffering as possible." Vattel says: "A...being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms." The United States and the people thereof are engaged in a war. The "Union which is the chief... | |
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They stand, therefore, in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and, being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms. 
