...had not the United-States Supreme Court solemnly affirmed in the " Santissima Trinidad " case, that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, &c."? With such recorded doctrines and practice as this, no wonder that Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams had...

...in 7 VVheaton's Kep. 340, is the following : " There is nothing in our laws or in the law ofnatlont, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." I take this passage to be a very correct representation of the present state of the law of England...

...celebrated case Mr. Justice Story thus expresses himself:—"There is nothing in our laws or in the laws of nations that forbids our citizens from sending...which no nation is bound to prohibit; and which only 1 Twiss, Law of Nations, Time of War, preface, p. xvii. exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty...

...Ayres on a commercial adventure in no shape violating our laws or our national neutrality, and that there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations,...that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels to foreign ports for sale. If the Messrs. Forbes, or any of the owners of the " Meteor," or Mr. Сaгу...

...J. in The Santissima Trinidad (7 Wheat, Rep. 283, 340), that the law of nations did not prohibit the sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale, told the jury that the question which he proposed to submit to them was whether the Alexandra was merely...

...-i vessel of war in the port of Baltimore, the Supreme Court, speaking through Judge Story, said : " There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." When Mexico complained of the aid given by our citizens to Texas, Mr. Webster, in his official character...

...but in no shape violating our laws, in our national neutrality. But there is nothing in our laws, or the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation (ie as prize in capture)." The case of Hoodie v. The Alfred, 3 Dallas, 307 : — " It is not a violation...

...the opinion of the court, said: " There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbid our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which onh' exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (7 Wheaton, 340.) Without entering...

...justly condemnable as good prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...

...Ayres on a commercial adventure in no shape violating our laws or our national neutrality, and that there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations...that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels tu foreign ports for sale. If the Messrs. Forbes, or auy of the owners of the Meteor, or Mr. Gary,...