England's Danger and Her Safety: A Letter to Earl Russell ...W. Ridgway, 1864 - 31 էջ |
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England's Danger and Her Safety: A Letter to Earl Russell ... Frederick Milnes Edge Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1864 |
ENGLANDS DANGER & HER SAFETY A Frederick Milnes Edge,Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congr Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2016 |
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Էջ 24 - I shall endeavor to confine myself to a brief recapitulation. The United States understand that they are at peace with Great Britain. That peace is furthermore secured by treaties, which oblige both parties to refrain and to restrain their subjects from making war against each other. They greatly regret to be compelled to admit the fact that the vessel known first as the gunboat No. 290, and now as the Alabama...
Էջ 25 - ... of her British holders, and the armament and equipment were at the same time clandestinely sent, through the connivance of the same or other British subjects who prepared them, to a common point outside of British waters, and there the armament and equipment of this vessel as a war-ship were completed.
Էջ 24 - The United States understand that she was purposely built for war against the United States, by British subjects, in a British port, and prepared there to be armed and equipped with a specified armament adapted to her construction for the very piratical career which she is now pursuing ; that her armament and equipment, duly adapted to this...
Էջ 26 - Majesty has proclaimed, and tending even to involve the two nations in a destructive maritime war. This Government confesses very freely, that it does not regard the present hour as one that is entirely favorable to a calm and candid examination of either the facts or the principles involved in such cases as the Alabama. It looks forward to a period when our intestine war shall have ceased, and the interests and passions which it has awakened abroad as well as at home shall have subsided and disappeared....
Էջ 25 - In saying this, however, it is not to be that the United States intend to act dogmatically, or in a litigious spirit. They are seriously and earnestly desirous to maintain, not only peace, but even amity, with Great Britain. They understand how unavoidably grievances have reciprocally arisen out of the divergence of policies, which the two countries have adopted in regard to the present insurrection. This Government thinks it understands, and in some measure appreciates, the difficulties...
Էջ 26 - Majesty's government may offer, to show that they are invalid, and if we shall not be convinced, there is no fair and just form of conventional arbitrament or reference to which we shall not be willing to submit them. Entertaining these views, the President thinks it proper for you to inform Earl Russell that you must continue to give him notice of claims of the character referred to when they arise, and that you shall propose to furnish him the evidence upon which they rest, as is customary in such...
Էջ 24 - Alabama," is roving over the seas capturing, burning, sinking, and destroying American vessels without lawful authority from any source recognized by international law, and in open defiance of all judicial tribunals established by the common consent of civilized nations as a restraint upon such a piratical mode of warfare. That this vessel was built with the intent to make war against the United States...
Էջ 25 - States confess that some effort was made by her Majesty's government, but it was put forth too late and was too soon abandoned. Upon these principles of law and these assumptions of fact, the United States do insist, and must continue to insist, that the British government is justly responsible for the damages which the peaceful, law-abiding citizens of the United States sustain by the depredations of the Alabama. I cannot, therefore, instruct you to refrain from presenting the claims which you have...
Էջ 25 - States. The United States understand that the purpose of the building, armament and equipment, and expedition of the vessel, was one single criminal intent, running equally through the building and the equipment and the expedition, and fully completed and executed when the Alabama was finally despatched, and that this intent brought the whole transaction of building, armament and equipment within the lawful jurisdiction of Great Britain, where the main features of the crime were executed. The United...
Էջ 25 - This war-ship thus deriving all its powers to do mischief from British sources, manned by a crew of British subjects enlisted in and proceeding from a British port, then went forth on her work to burn and destroy the property of the people of the United States, in fraud of the laws of Great Britain and in violation of the peace and sovereignty of the United States. From the earliest to the latest day of her career she does not appear to have ever gained any other national character on the ocean than...