 British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the 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...  Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 2171812Full view - About this book
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 652 pages
...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins), Daniel D. Tompkins - Governors - 1898 - 938 pages
...summing up his reasons for a declaration of war. the President used these words: " British cruisers have been In the continued practice of violating the...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction Is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...recounting the acts of the British government during the years 1803-1812. He says, in part: British cruisers have been in the continued practice Of violating the...founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but Cf a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British cruisers have been in the practice also of... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1908 - 484 pages
...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British 1 " More than six months had passed since Congress met, and the question of... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 278 pages
...the acts of the British government during the years 1803-1812. He says, in part: . British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but Cf a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British cruisers have been in the practice also of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 530 pages
...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an eneiny, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended... | |
 | William Wallace Bates - Merchant marine - 1902 - 506 pages
...the United States as an independent and neutral nation. Impressment of our Seamen. " British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 pages
...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 528 pages
...independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating tlic American flag on the great highway of nations, and...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1906 - 532 pages
...series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation. British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
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