Impressment of American Seamen, Volum 118,Utgave 1Columbia University, 1925 - 279 sider |
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Impressment of American Seamen, Volum 118,Utgave 1 James Fulton Zimmerman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1925 |
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Impressment of American Seamen, Volum 118,Utgave 1 James Fulton Zimmerman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1925 |
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Side 57 - I, AB, collector of the district of D., do hereby certify, that EF, an American seaman, aged years, or thereabouts, of the height of feet inches, (describing the said seaman as particularly as may be,) has, this day, produced to me proof in the manner directed...
Side 152 - But I have it in express charge from the President to state that, while he forbears to insist on the further punishment of the offending officer, he is not the less sensible of the justice and utility of such an example, nor the less persuaded that it would best comport with what is due from His Britannic Majesty to his own honor.
Side 187 - British seamen from the merclumt ships of a foreign state, simply on the assurance that a law shall hereafter be passed to prohibit the employment of British seamen in the public or commercial service of that state. The British government now, as heretofore, is ready to receive from the government of the United States...
Side 210 - I could avail myself consistently with a due attention to the interests of his majesty's subjects. I am at all times ready to enter into discussion with that government for a conciliatory adjustment of the differences between the two countries upon principles of perfect reciprocity not inconsistent with the established maxims of public law, and with the maritime rights of the British empire.
Side 199 - That the provisions of this act shall have no effect or operation with respect to the employment as seamen of the subjects or citizens of any foreign nation which shall not, by treaty or special convention with the government of the United States, have prohibited on board of her public and private vessels the employment of native citizens of the United States, who have not become a citizen or subject of such nation.
Side 199 - Stat., 809,) and it provides : " that from and after the termination of the war in which the United States are now engaged with Great Britain, it shall not be lawful to employ, on board of any public or private vessels of the United States, any person or persons except citizens of the United States, or persons of color, natives of the United States.
Side 191 - You are not aware of the great sensibility and jealousy of the people of England on this subject ; and no administration could expect to remain in power that should consent to renounce the right of impressment, or to suspend the practice, without the certainty of an arrangement which should obviously be calculated most unequivocally to secure its object.
Side 69 - An act for the relief and protection of American seamen;' and, pursuant to the said act, I do hereby certify, that the said EF is a citizen of the United States of America : in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this...
Side 17 - The power of pressing is founded upon immemorial usage, allowed for ages: If it be so founded and allowed for ages, it can have no ground to stand upon, nor can it be vindicated or justified by any reason but the safety of the state: And the practice is deduced from that trite maxim of the constitutional law of England, " that private mischief had better be submitted to, than that public detriment and inconvenience should ensue.
Side 24 - His royal highness can never admit that in the exercise of the undoubted and hitherto undisputed right of searching neutral merchant vessels in time of war, the impressment of British seamen, when found therein, can be deemed any violation of a neutral flag.