 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 644 pages
...necessarily be considered as thenceforward constituting two separate bodies. They stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and, being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms." Thus, then, it was evident that the revolution... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 696 pages
...or the wrong ' belongs? On earth they have no common supe' rior. They stand, therefore, in precisely ; being unable to come to an agree' ment, have recourse to arms." I will now, sir, cite another highly... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1856 - 756 pages
...right or the wrong belongs ? On earth they have no common superior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and, being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms." We have been exultingly told by Mr. Talleyrand,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 634 pages
...war, has a right to blockade the ports of the other, and neutrals are bound to respect that right. The parties to a civil war are in the same predicament as two nations who are in a contest and have recourse to arms. Prize cases, 2 Black, 685. Brief for the plaintiff in error.... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...independent parties, who consider each other as enemies." * * * " They stand, therefore, in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms." The United States and the people thereof... | |
 | Anna Ella CARROLL - United States - 1861 - 32 pages
...the right or wrong lies 1 On earth they have no common superior. They stand, therefore, in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and, being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms, maxims of humanity, moderation, and honor... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 1116 pages
...constituting (at least for a time) two separate bodies, two distinct societies. They stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and being unable to come to au agreement, have recourse to arms." It is indeed idle for the Diet to refer... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 830 pages
...bodies, two distinct societies. Having no common superior to judge between them, they stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest and have recourse to arms. This being the case, it is very evident that the common laws of war — those maxims of humanity, moderation,... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 832 pages
...bodies, two distinct societies. Having no common superior to judge between them, they stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest and have recourse to arms. This being the case, it is very evident that the common laws of war — those maxims of humanity, moderation,... | |
 | Loyal National League - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) - 1863 - 76 pages
...independent parties, who consider each other as enemies. '; * * # " They stand, therefore, in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest, and being unable to come to an agreement, have recourse to arms.;5 The United States and the people thereof... | |
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Having no common superior to judge between them, they stand in precisely the same predicament as two nations who engage in a contest and have recourse to arms. 
