A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain During the American Civil WarLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870 - 511 Seiten |
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... rights and duties of belligerent and neutral . I propose to give a succinct and connected account of these ques- tions as they arose . Dry and uninteresting as they will probably appear to most men , such controversies have importance ...
... rights and duties of belligerent and neutral . I propose to give a succinct and connected account of these ques- tions as they arose . Dry and uninteresting as they will probably appear to most men , such controversies have importance ...
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... belligerent right , and that the United States were a belligerent Power.1 If at the beginning of the war the naval force at the disposal of the Federal Government was insignificant , compared with the work expected of it and the dimen ...
... belligerent right , and that the United States were a belligerent Power.1 If at the beginning of the war the naval force at the disposal of the Federal Government was insignificant , compared with the work expected of it and the dimen ...
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... rights of foreign Powers and their subjects ( questions some of which had previously occupied the District Courts ... belligerent rights " until it had been recognized by Congress . They held that it was recognized for the first time by ...
... rights of foreign Powers and their subjects ( questions some of which had previously occupied the District Courts ... belligerent rights " until it had been recognized by Congress . They held that it was recognized for the first time by ...
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... right to institute it . They have a right to enter the ports of a friendly nation for the purposes of trade and commerce , but are bound to recognize the rights of a belligerent engaged in actual war , to use this mode of coercion , for ...
... right to institute it . They have a right to enter the ports of a friendly nation for the purposes of trade and commerce , but are bound to recognize the rights of a belligerent engaged in actual war , to use this mode of coercion , for ...
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... right by force . ' " The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations . But it is not necessary , to constitute war , that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States . A war may exist ...
... right by force . ' " The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations . But it is not necessary , to constitute war , that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States . A war may exist ...
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Seite 2 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Seite 71 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth, will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country...
Seite 24 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Seite 93 - The true test of its existence, as found in the writings of the sages of the common law, may be thus summarily stated; when the regular course of justice is interrupted by revolt, rebellion, or insurrection, so that the courts of justice cannot be kept open, civil war exists, and hostilities may be prosecuted on the same footing as if those opposing the government were foreign enemies invading the land.
Seite 266 - ... in either of which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours...
Seite 17 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 37 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Seite 135 - ... with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation...
Seite 61 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Seite 95 - ex majore cautela" and in anticipation of such astute objections, passing an act "approving, legalizing, and making valid all the acts, proclamations, and orders of the President, &c., as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States.