| United States. Department of State - Latin America - 1872 - 640 pages
...action of these British-built, manned, and armed vessels has had the indirect effect of driving from the sea a large portion of the commercial marine of the...corresponding extent enlarging that of Great Britain;" that "injuries thus received are of so grave a nature as in reason and justice to constitute a valid... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 706 pages
...belligerents on the high seas, before they had a single vessel afloat, was precipitate and unprecedented." " 9. That the injuries thus received by a country which...endeavored to perform all its obligations, owing to the imperfection of the legal means at hand to prevent them, as well as the unwillingness to seek for more... | |
| United States. Department of State - Latin America - 1872 - 904 pages
...action of these Britishbnilt, manned, and armed vessels has had the indirect effect of driving from the sea a large portion of the commercial marine of the United States, and to ¡i con-fspoudiug extent enlarging that of Great Britain, thus enabling one portion of the British... | |
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