The Official Correspondence on the Claims of the United States in Respect to the AlabamaLongmans, Green, 1867 - 279 sidor |
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The Official Correspondence on the Claims of the United States in Respect to ... Earl John Russell Russell Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1867 |
The Official Correspondence on the Claims of the United States in Respect to ... Earl John Russell Russell Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1867 |
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Sida 116 - An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect.
Sida 46 - As to prizes made under the same circumstances, and brought in after the date of that letter, the President determined that all the means in our power should be used for their restitution.
Sida 128 - By the Constitution, Congress alone has the power to declare a national or foreign war. It cannot declare war against a State, or any number of States, by virtue of any clause in the Constitution. The Constitution confers on the President the whole executive power. He is bound to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. He is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States. He has...
Sida 127 - As a civil war is never publicly proclaimed, eo nomine against insurgents, its actual existence is a fact in our domestic history which the Court is bound to notice and to know.
Sida 128 - If a war be made by invasion of a foreign nation, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does . not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge -without waiting for any special legislative authority. And whether the hostile party be a foreign invader, or States organized in rebellion, it is none the less a war. although the declaration of it be
Sida 145 - It appears to her Majesty's government that there are but two questions by which the claim of compensation could be tested : the one is, have the British government acted with due diligence, or, in other words, in good faith and honesty, in the maintenance of the neutrality they proclaimed? The other is, have the law officers of the Crown properly understood the foreign enlistment act, when they declined, in June, 1862, to advise the detention and seizure of the Alabama, and on other occasions when...
Sida 178 - That the collectors of the customs be, and they are hereby, respectively, authorized and required to detain any vessel manifestly built for warlike purposes, and about to depart the United States, of which the cargo shall principally consist of arms and munitions of war, when the number of men shipped on board, or other circumstances, shall render it probable that such vessel is intended to be employed by the owner or owners to...
Sida 36 - Government to solicit redress for the national and private injuries already thus sustained, as well as a more effective prevention of any repetition of such lawless and injurious proceedings in Her Majesty's ports hereafter.
Sida 266 - Tompkins,' during the war of 1812, between Great Britain and the United States, but...
Sida 105 - Government to keep faithful watch over the vessel, and report any further information they might obtain, no one of them seems to have been disposed to pay the smallest attention to any representations or any evidence...