 | Duncan Campbell Scott - Lieutenant governors - 1926 - 668 pages
...message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first time the government of the United States had alleged impressment as its chief grievance,... | |
 | William Lawson Grant - Canada - 1926 - 622 pages
...message was decidedly hostile. It began by charging that British cruisers had been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it. This was the first time the government of the United States had alleged impressment as its chief grievance,... | |
 | Frances Rollins Morse - 1926 - 1000 pages
...of complaints previously alleged, began by charging that British cruisers had been 'in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of sei/ing and carrying off persons sailing under it.' The charge was amply proved, was not denied, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...United Slates as an independent and neutral nation. 425 British cruizershavc been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in tie exercise of :i belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of .a municipal... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1841 - 888 pages
...Belligerent right founded on thé Law of Nations against an Enemy, but of a municipal prérogative over British Subjects. British jurisdiction is thus...extended to Neutral Vessels, in a situation where no Laws eau operale but thé Law of Nations and thé Laws of thé Country to which thé Vessels belong; and... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 1986 - 1458 pages
...of complaints previously alleged, began by charging that British cruisers had been "in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it." The charge was amply proved, was not denied, and warranted war; but this was the first time that the... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - History - 2001 - 248 pages
...summarized America's case in his war message to Congress: British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against the enemy, but a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended... | |
 | Charles G. Muller - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...the United States as an independent and neutral nation: "British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing on it ... thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag,... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1858 - 604 pages
...conduct of her government presents a series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. "British cruisers have been in...enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subj ects. British j urisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws... | |
 | Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British' cruizers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neuAPPENDIX.— STATE PAPERS. tral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of... | |
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