 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
 | William Cothren - 1854 - 864 pages
...been in the continual practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it;...law of nations, against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. That so far from British subjects alone being affected by this practice,... | |
 | William Cothren - 1854 - 872 pages
...practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carryingoflf persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of...law of nations, against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. That so far from British subjects alone being affected by this practice,... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 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...American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded... | |
 | William Cothren - 1854 - 878 pages
...President Madison, we learn as causes for the declaration, that British cruisers had been in the continual practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and seizing and carryingoffpersons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 470 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... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1855 - 1032 pages
...seamen was first mentioned. Persons sailing under the American flag had been seized and carried off, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded...law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. Under the pretext of searching our vessels for her own subjects,... | |
 | George Coggeshall - 1856 - 522 pages
...British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great high way of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons...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... | |
 | George Coggeshall - 1856 - 514 pages
...cruisers .have been in the continued practice of .. violating the American flag on the great high way of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons...sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a Belligerent f ignt, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1861 - 36 pages
...the language of Madison most deeply upon all our readers : — British cruisers [says the President] 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... | |
 | 1861 - 178 pages
...the language of Madison most deeply upon all our readers : — British cruisers [says the President] 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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