Neutral Relations of England and the United States (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...ought not in principle to be accounted any depositing of the original defence. Happily this point is not left in doubt, if the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States upon this branch of national law are entitled to the respect and confidence professed for them abroad as well as at home. It was the main point in the case of the " Gran Para " (7 Wheat. Rep. 471) above cited (No. IV., pp. 29-31, to which the reader is referred), in which the facts were more favorable for such a defence than those of the " Florida;" and in which the Court, in passing judgment upon it, used the indignant language before quoted, that the doctrine that the vessel could be thus "purified from every taint contracted at the place where all her real force" and capacity for annoyance were acquired, would indeed be a fraudulent neutrality, disgraceful to our own Government, and of which no nation would be the dupe." This case is also directly decisive of the point, if should it be made, as above suggested, in behalf of the "Alabama" and the " Georgia," and if it be thought deserving of further consideration than has already been given to it. If, then, those vessels are privateers only, it is not perceived why the English Government has not a perfect right to seize and confiscate, them whenever they come within her jurisdiction. What may be her obligations to do so, will presently be considered. 5 September, 1863. VIII. "ENGLAND'S POSITION IN RELATION TO THE REBEL PRIVATEERS, OR SHIPS OP WAR, AND THE SUPPRESSION OP THEIR DEPREDATIONS.. But it may be contended, that if these vessels, when privateers only, are thus subject to seizure and confiscation in any British port in which they may be or arrive, yet, if any one ...