...and cannot be, denied. "A nation," said the President, in his annual message to Congress in 186'9, "is its own judge when to accord the rights of belligerency,...independent nations at war with each other " (<?). The course pursued by the British Government is not only justified by having been followed by all the chief...

...insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency." He added that "the principle is to be maintained, however, that this nation is its own judge...struggling to free themselves from a government they believed to be oppressive, or to independent nations at war with each other." Thereafter the attitude...

...decisions given in the courts of the United Slates, it was succeeded by an assertion that although " a nation is its own judge when to accord the rights of belligerency," recognition which " has not been justified on any ground of either necessity or moral rights " is "...

...growing sentiment in the country in favor of belligerency, he had maintained in a preceding paragraph "that this nation is its own judge when to accord...or to independent nations at war with each other." 2 Congress had not long been in session after the Christmas recess before the subject of Cuban belligerency...

...Furthermore, the President of the United States, in his annual message to Congress in 1869, observed: ' A nation is its own judge when to accord the rights...or to independent nations at war with each other.' 1 1 See Part. Papers. N. America, 1872 (No. 2), p. 17. CHAPTER II QUALIFICATIONS OF LAWFUL BELLIGERENTS...

...insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency." He added that "the principle is to be maintained, however, that this nation is its own judge...struggling to free themselves from a government they believed to be oppressive, or to independent nations at war with each other." It is needless to say...

...rights of belligerency either to a people struggling to free themselves from a government they believed to be oppressive, or to independent nations at war with each other." It is needless to say that this position was a great disappointment to the Cubans, and seemed to them...

...and insist that (in the language of the President to Congress on the 6th day of December, 1869), a "nation is its own judge when to accord the rights...or to independent nations at war with each other." j| But while thus firmly insisting upon the sovereign rigths of independent nationality, they also...

...organization of the insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency. The principle is maintained, however, that this nation is its own judge...to accord the rights of belligerency, either to a peoplo struggling to free themselves from a government they believe to be oppressive , or to independent...

...justify a recognition of belligerents. The principle is maintained, however, that this nation is in own judge when to accord the rights of belligerency,...or to independent nations at war with each other. He concluded that in due time Spain must find it for its interest to establish its dependency as an...