Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously and unavoidably; that is to say, retaliation shall only be resorted to after careful inquiry into... The United States Service Magazine - Page 2121865Full view - About this book
| United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1864 - 282 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...inconsiderate retaliation removes the belligerents further and further from the mitigating rules of a regular war, and by rapid steps leads them nearer... | |
| United States dept. of war - 1864 - 804 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...removes the belligerents farther and farther from ttie mitigating rules of Ħi regular war, and by rapid steps leads them to the internecine wars of... | |
| United States. War Department - 1864 - 304 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...inconsiderate retaliation removes the belligerents further and further from the mitigating rules of a regular war, and by rapid steps leads them nearer... | |
| Augustus Choate Hamlin - Nazi concentration camps - 1866 - 290 pages
...never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and cautiously and unavoidably ; that is to say, retaliation...character of the misdeeds that may demand retribution. 33. It is no longer considered lawful — on the contrary it is held to be a serious breach of the... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1874 - 1178 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...removes the belligerents farther and farther from the mitigation rules of a regular war, and by rapid steps leads them nearer to the internecine wars of... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on War Claims - Claims - 1875 - 448 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...removes the belligerents farther and farther from the mitigation rules of a regular war, and by rapid steps leads them nearer to the internecine wars of... | |
| Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1878 - 644 pages
...Retaliat1on will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure ol mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...unavoidably ; that is to say, retaliation shall only . xvH1. MEANS AND INSTRUMENTS OF WAR. 39 ' resorted to after careful inquiry -into the real occurrence,... | |
| Social sciences - 1879 - 844 pages
...therefore never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protection and retribution, and moreover cautiously and unavoidably...to say, retaliation shall only be resorted to after careftil enquiry into the real occurrence and the character of the misdeeds that may demand retribution.... | |
| United States. War Department - 1881 - 536 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...retribution. Unjust or inconsiderate retaliation removes tho belligerents further and farther from the mitigating rules of a regular war, and by rapid steps... | |
| United States. War Department - 1881 - 1396 pages
...Retaliation will, therefore, never be resorted to as a measure of mere revenge, but only as a means of protective retribution, and, moreover, cautiously...inquiry into the real occurrence, and the character ot the misdeeds that in . v demand retribution. i • • - r or inconsiderate retaliation removes... | |
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