...effect: If war should hereafter arise between Great Britain and the United States, which God forbid, the merchants of either country then residing in the...effects without molestation or hindrance. And all fishermen, all cultivators of the earth, and all artisans or manufacturers unarmed, and inhabiting...

...residing in the other shall be allowed a stated time in which to remain to settle their affairs and to "depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance," and women and children, artisans and certain others, may continue their respective employments and shall...

...they ought to protect and defend vessels belonging to the party of which they are. ARTICLE XXIII If war should arise between the two contracting parties,...or hindrance; and all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting...

...United States, which was reaffirmed by the Treaty of 1828, 8 Stat. at L. 378, in providing that "if war should arise between the two contracting parties,...their effects, without molestation or hindrance," and in providing that this provision shall not be annulled or suspended by war, would seem to confer upon...

...Amity and Commerce between the United States nnd Sweden, concluded April 3, 1783, Article XXII. If war should arise between the two contracting parties,...all their effects without molestation or hindrance: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States nnd Prussia, concluded July 11, 1799, Article...

...not been abrogated, and which I also understand is still in force : " If war should arise between the contracting parties the merchants of either country...or hindrance ; and all women and children, scholars of every factulty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting...

...most acknowledged articles in the law of nature and nations. Article XXIII provides as folfows: If war should arise between the two contracting parties,...or hindrance; and all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting...

...article of which stated: "If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of other country then residing in the other shall be allowed...their effects without molestation or hindrance.'' Since then one hundred and twenty-two years have passed, making it possible for mankind to transact...

...among which were "that it be proposed, though not indispensably required, that if war should hereafter arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants...their effects without molestation or hindrance;" and that other classes of persons engaged in useful and peaceful pursuits should be allowed to continue...

...the war by reason of its express provisions. Such Treaty reads in part as follows: "Article XXIII. If war should arise between the two contracting parties,...or hindrance, and all women and children, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, artisans, manufacturers and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting...