 | Truman Smith - French spoliation claims - 1851 - 36 pages
...which no information has been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to ns'ure the merchants of the United States, concerned in foreign...navigation, that due attention will be paid to any injuiies they may suffer on the high seas, or in foreign countries, contrary to the law of nations,... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...rapidly declined. Jefferson, then Secretary of State, met the emergency with a declaration — •• I have it in charge from the President to assure the merchants of the Unit«l States concerned in foreign commerce or navigation, that attention will be paid to any injuries... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 470 pages
...possible that other instance* may have happened of winch no inlormation ha* been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to assure the. merchants of the United Stales, concerned in foreign commerce or navigation, that due attention will be paid to any injuiles... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...the Secretary of State (Thomas Jefferson), by a circular dated August 27, 1793, assured the merchants that "due attention will be paid to any injuries they may suffer on the high seas, or ш foreign countries, contrary to tho laws of nations or to existing treaties ; and that, on their... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...special undertaking of Mr. Jefferson, which has been already adduced, when he announced that he "bad it in charge from the President to assure the merchants...of the United States concerned in foreign commerce and navigation, that due attention will be paid to any injuries they may suffer on the high seas or... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...present case by the special undertaking of Mr. Jefferson, already adduced, when he announced that he had it "in charge from the President to assure the merchants...injuries they may suffer on the high seas or in foreign countries."1 Such a duty, thus founded, and thus openly assumed, could not be abandoned, on any inducement... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1873 - 544 pages
...present case by the special undertaking of Mr. Jefferson, already adduced, when he announced that he had it "in charge from the President to assure the merchants...suffer on the high seas or in foreign countries." J Such a duty, thus founded, and thus openly assumed, could not be abandoned, on any inducement proceeding... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1882 - 60 pages
...case by the special undertaking of Mr. Jefferson, already adduced, when he announced that he " had it in charge from the President to assure the merchants...of the United States concerned in foreign commerce and navigation that due attention will Ьв paid to any injuries they may suffer on the high seas or... | |
 | Francis Wharton - International law - 1886 - 846 pages
...possible that other instances may have happened of which no information has been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to assure the...commerce or navigation, that due attention will be !itiid to any injuries they may suffer on the high seas, or in foreign countries, contrary to the law... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Government publications - 1886 - 846 pages
...possible that other instances may have happened of which no information has been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to assure the merchants of the United States concerned iu foreign commerce or navigation, that due attention will bo paid to any injnries they may suffer... | |
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Jefferson, already adduced, when he announced that he had it "in charge from the President to assure the merchants of the United States concerned in foreign commerce or navigation, that due attention will be paid to any injuries they may suffer on the... 
