Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 - United States |
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... answer to the feeble proposal of Lord Russell ; so I drew it up and sent it last evening . A copy of my note is herewith transmitted . I have the honor to be , sir , your obedient servant , Hon . WILLIAM H. SEWARD , CHARLES FRANCIS ...
... answer to the feeble proposal of Lord Russell ; so I drew it up and sent it last evening . A copy of my note is herewith transmitted . I have the honor to be , sir , your obedient servant , Hon . WILLIAM H. SEWARD , CHARLES FRANCIS ...
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... answer to similar representations made by me on behalf of my government ; when I observe that the appeals to the existing law have been almost uniformly of a kind to prove its utter inefficacy ; and when , upon my making repre ...
... answer to similar representations made by me on behalf of my government ; when I observe that the appeals to the existing law have been almost uniformly of a kind to prove its utter inefficacy ; and when , upon my making repre ...
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... answer should be made to depend upon the merely accidental pressure of the circumstances attending the moment when it was made . Without pressing this topic further , I would then beg to observe that in any event , how- ever the facts ...
... answer should be made to depend upon the merely accidental pressure of the circumstances attending the moment when it was made . Without pressing this topic further , I would then beg to observe that in any event , how- ever the facts ...
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... answer given to you by Earl Russell on the 26th of September , 1864 , respecting the conduct of the yacht Deer- hound in rescuing from the sea a portion of the crew of the confederate steamer Alabama after her conflict with the United ...
... answer given to you by Earl Russell on the 26th of September , 1864 , respecting the conduct of the yacht Deer- hound in rescuing from the sea a portion of the crew of the confederate steamer Alabama after her conflict with the United ...
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... answer had been that the laws of this country did not empower the government to take any such measure . The answer to every such demand is found in the fundamental institutions of this country , in the law of habeas corpus and of trial ...
... answer had been that the laws of this country did not empower the government to take any such measure . The answer to every such demand is found in the fundamental institutions of this country , in the law of habeas corpus and of trial ...
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American arrested authorities Britain British Burgevine Captain Waddell captured cargo charge Chargé d'Affaires CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Chili Chilian China Chinese citizens claim command communication confederate consul copy crew Cronstadt DEPARTMENT despatch Drouyn de Lhuys duty emigration Emperor enclose enlistment February Fenian flag foreign affairs France FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE French highest consideration honor to acknowledge imperial instant interest Ireland JOHN BIGELOW July June LEGATION letter Liverpool London Lord Clarendon lordship Majesty Majesty's government Marquis de Montholon Maximilian ment Mexican Mexico Miantonomoh minister Mutual Insurance Company nations neutrality Niuchwang obedient servant officers owners Paris party peace Peking persons port present President Prince Kung prisoners proceedings question received regard relations reply respect Russia Secretary sent Seward Shanghai Shenandoah ship Sir F Spain steamer Tangchau Tassara tion treaty undersigned United States consul vessel Washington WILLIAM H witness York
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Page 98 - British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 99 - Majesty, the liberty to take Fish of every kind on that part of the Southern Coast of Newfoundland which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau Islands, on the Western and Northern Coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the Quirpon Islands...
Page 101 - Provided however, that the American fishermen shall be admitted to enter such bays or harbours for the purpose of shelter and of repairing damages therein, of purchasing wood, and of obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever.
Page 165 - State, colony, district, or people, who shall transiently be within the United States, and shall, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, which, at the time of its arrival within the United States, was fitted and equipped as such, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another subject or citizen of the same foreign prince, State, colony, district, or people...
Page 165 - States as before defined, and in every case in which any process issuing out of any Court of The United States shall be disobeyed or resisted by any Person or Persons having the custody of any Vessel of War, Cruiser, or other armed Vessel, of any Foreign Prince...
Page 5 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 159 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 161 - States shall then be at peace with such belligerent. ) 8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting to fit out and arm, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly being concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of either of the said belligerents.
Page 164 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted or entered in the service of any foreign prince, State, colony, district, or people, as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty...
Page 144 - ... his Majesty's customs or excise, or any officer of his Majesty's navy, who is by law empowered to make seizures for any forfeiture incurred under any of the laws of customs or excise, or the laws of trade and navigation...