| United States - 1819 - 512 pages
...as well as other reasons, may be regarded as contradicting the principle from which it would flow. Taking reason and justice for the tests of this practice,...inconsiderable article of property captured on the higb seas, is eniitled ; and leaves their destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often... | |
| Th. Jefferson - 1852 - 690 pages
...regarded as contradicting the principle from which it would flow. Taking reason and justice for the test of this practice, it is peculiarly indefensible, because...entitled, and leaves their destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often ignorant, and generally interested, by his want of mariners, in his... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1852 - 692 pages
...regarded as contradicting the principle from which it would flow. Taking reason and justice for the test of this practice, it is peculiarly indefensible, because...dearest rights of persons of a regular trial, to which the'most inconsiderable article of property, captured on the high seas, is entitled, and leaves their... | |
| Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 536 pages
...January, 1804, exposed the tyranny of the British pretension, in these emphatic and memorable terms : " Taking reason and justice for the tests of this practice,...captured on the high seas is entitled, and leaves the destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often ignorant, and generally interested, by... | |
| Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 542 pages
...January, 1804 exposed the tyranny of the British pretension, in these emphatic and memorable tenns : deprives the dearest rights of persons of a regular...captured on the high seas is entitled, and leaves the destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often ignorant, and generally interested, by... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...in the celebrated instructions to Mr. Monroe, our Minister at London, dated January 5, 1804: — " Taking reason and justice for the tests of this practice,...because it deprives the dearest rights of persons of a regtdar trial, to which the most inconsiderable article of property captured on the high seas is entitled,... | |
| James Madison - Constitutional history - 1807 - 490 pages
...as well as other reasons, may be regarded as contradicting the principle from which it would flow. Taking reason and justice for the tests of this practice,...entitled; and leaves their destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often ignorant, and generally interested by his want of mariners, in his... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 408 pages
...in the celebrated instructions to Mr. Monroe, our Minister at London, dated January 5, 1804: — " Taking reason and justice for the tests of this practice,...entitled, and leaves their destiny to the will of an officer, sometimes cruel, often ignorant, and generally interested, by his want of mariners, in his... | |
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