The Law of Hostile Military Expeditions as Applied by the United StatesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1914 - 69 páginas |
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Página i - Whatever may be the forecast, wisdom, and justice conspicuous in the laws of the United States, it is universally notorious that a system of pillage and aggression has been organized in several ports of the Union against the vessels and property of the Spanish nation...
Página 7 - ... several witnesses. And, lastly, he did not hesitate to write a letter to that commander, before he took Pensacola, threatening, in the event of his not •withdrawing immediately from Florida, to resist what he termed his aggressions by force. It is therefore to the conduct of her own commanding officers that Spain must impute the necessity under which General Jackson found himself of occupying the places of their command.
Página 6 - The undersigned is forced to admit, with regret, that an unlawful expedition did succeed in stealthily escaping from the United States, and landing on the shores of Cuba. It escaped from the United States without having attracted any notice or suspicion on the part of the government or its officers or agents, and, as the undersigned believes, without any suspicion on the part of the agents of the Spanish government. Previous to its departure, Mr.
Página 10 - that, if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise...
Página 16 - ... convict on this indictment, it must be proved to their satisfaction that the expedition or enterprise was in its character military ; or, in other words, it must have been shown by competent proof that the design, the end, the aim and the purpose of the expedition, or enterprise, was some military service, some attack or invasion of another people or country, State or colony as a military force.
Página 3 - The decisions of the courts of every country, so far as they are founded upon a law common to every country, will be received, not as authority, but with respect. The decisions of the courts of every country show how the law of nations, in the given case, is understood in that country, and will be considered in adopting the rule which is to prevail in this.
Página 8 - ... bank. But it is equally clear that there was a third purpose, and that respected commerce and currency. To furnish a currency for general circulation, and to aid exchange, was, demonstrably, a clear, distinct, and avowed object in the creation of the first bank. On the 13th of December, 1790, the Secretary of the Treasury made a report to the House of Representatives, recommending a national bank. In this report he set forth the advantages of such an institution ; one of these advantages, he...
Página 3 - The law of nations is the great source from which we derive those rules, respecting belligerent and neutral rights, which are recognized by all civilized and commercial states throughout Europe and America. This law is in part unwritten, and in part conventional. To ascertain that which is unwritten, we resort to the great principles of reason and justice : but, as these principles will be differently understood by different nations under...
Página i - Catholic Majesty's consuls, in the courts of their respective districts, for its prevention or the recovery of the property when brought into this country, have been, and still are, completely unavailing. The artifices and evasions by means of which the letter of the law has on these occasions been constantly eluded, are sufficiently known, and even the combination of interests in persons who are well known, among whom are some holding public offices.