State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession of George Washington to the Presidency: Exhibiting a Complete View of Our Foreign Relations Since that Time ...Thomas B. Wait, 1817 - United States |
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... justice and reason - is warranted by precedent - and is inculcated by those writers whose sentiments on questions of this kind are entitled to every degree of authority and respect . The only part of Mr. Pinckney's representation , upon ...
... justice and reason - is warranted by precedent - and is inculcated by those writers whose sentiments on questions of this kind are entitled to every degree of authority and respect . The only part of Mr. Pinckney's representation , upon ...
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... justice upbraid our conduct , and that the opinions which you are pleased to avow , tend to wrest from us the benefits due to our impartiality and love of peace ; it is impossible to pass over the doctrines , contain- ed in your letter ...
... justice upbraid our conduct , and that the opinions which you are pleased to avow , tend to wrest from us the benefits due to our impartiality and love of peace ; it is impossible to pass over the doctrines , contain- ed in your letter ...
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... justice . " All the major nations of Europe , and in addition to these , Denmark and Sweden , have followed the same practice in their treaties ; I shall not say exclusively ; be- cause this would imply a greater intimacy with their ...
... justice . " All the major nations of Europe , and in addition to these , Denmark and Sweden , have followed the same practice in their treaties ; I shall not say exclusively ; be- cause this would imply a greater intimacy with their ...
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... justice to the one party ; the ulterior measure of seizing and restoring the prizes , is declined in justice to the other ; and the evil , thus early arrested , will be of very limited effects ; perhaps , indeed , soon disappear ...
... justice to the one party ; the ulterior measure of seizing and restoring the prizes , is declined in justice to the other ; and the evil , thus early arrested , will be of very limited effects ; perhaps , indeed , soon disappear ...
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... justice to all . Upon this , as on many other occasions , the civilians differ ; Vattel declaring , that a privateer may carry his prize into a neutral port , and there freely sell it ; Martens affirming the same doctrine , if it has ...
... justice to all . Upon this , as on many other occasions , the civilians differ ; Vattel declaring , that a privateer may carry his prize into a neutral port , and there freely sell it ; Martens affirming the same doctrine , if it has ...
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Page 167 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 46 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 110 - Among the means, which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards, composed of proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 111 - The institution of a military academy is also recommended by cogent reasons. However pacific the general policy of a nation may be, it ought never to be without an adequate stock of military knowledge for emergencies.
Page 257 - It shall be lawful for the ships of war of either party, and privateers, freely to carry whithersoever they please, the ships and goods taken from their enemies, without being obliged to pay any duty to the officers of the admiralty or any other judges ; nor shall such prizes be arrested or seized...
Page 111 - Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation.
Page 103 - The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution, and their success must often depend on secrecy; and even when brought to a conclusion a full disclosure of all the measures, demands, or eventual concessions which may have been proposed or contemplated would be extremely impolitic ; for this might have a pernicious influence on future negotiations, or produce immediate inconveniences, perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other powers.
Page 215 - As soon as the war in Europe had embraced those, powers, with whom the United States have the most extensive relations, there was reason to apprehend, that our intercourse with them might be interrupted, and our disposition for peace drawn into question, by the suspicions too often entertained by belligerent nations.
Page 113 - The situation in which I now stand, for the last time, in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country, on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and Sovereign Arbiter of Nations, that his providential care may still be extended to the United States...
Page 46 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...