 ... American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations, against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects....  The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26 - Page 3011814Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Political parties - 1856 - 560 pages
...; that British jurisdiction was thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws could operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belonged ; that a self-redress was assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 774 pages
...of these negroes," and hence her Majesty's authorities were right in liberating them. We appeal to the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessel belongs to secure the owner in the possession of his slaves; and it will not be difficult to... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1861 - 178 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the law of the country to which the vessels belong. . . Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases... | |
 | John George Phillimore - Contraband of war - 1861 - 36 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the law of the country to which the vessels belong. . . Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1866 - 452 pages
...the seizure of the supposed British seamen in American vessels on the " great highway of nations" to that "substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of the war." lie affirmed, that, under this pretext, thousands of American citizens had been torn from... | |
 | John O. Raum - New Jersey - 1877 - 512 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws can operate...sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. "The practice, hence, so far from affecting British subjects alone, that, under the pretext of searching... | |
 | John Frost - Presidents - 1888 - 630 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but...law of nations and the laws of the country to which tho vessels belong ; and a self-redress is assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained... | |
 | David Breakenridge Read - Aggressiveness - 1894 - 286 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws can operate...which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained MADISON'S MISLEADING MESSAGE. 101 and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1896 - 658 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but...of the country to which the vessels belong, and a self -redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins), Daniel D. Tompkins - Governors - 1898 - 938 pages
...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction Is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but...subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, la that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign which falls within the definition... | |
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