 | John George Phillimore - Contraband of war - 1861 - 36 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Aspinwall Goddard - United States - 1870 - 616 pages
...carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the laws of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | Samuel Aspinwall Goddard - United States - 1870 - 612 pages
...carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the laws of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative...assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 724 pages
...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...of a municipal prerogative over British 'subjects." As this does not present the case in its true light, I shall, for the purpose of fairlf bringing to... | |
 | John O. Raum - New Jersey - 1877 - 512 pages
...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,...assumed, which if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force, for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | John Lewis Thomson - Black Hawk War, 1832 - 1887 - 678 pages
...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...of a municipal prerogative over British subjects; "That they had been in the practice also of violating the peace and the rights of our coasts by hovering... | |
 | John Frost - Presidents - 1888 - 630 pages
...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...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 - 284 pages
...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,...assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible Sovereign... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1896 - 646 pages
...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...assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1896 - 658 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
