...to the sale of armed vessels. 'There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the pel-son engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Report», p. 348.) Ships of war...

...solemnly affirmed in the " Santissima Trinidad" case, that ?? there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...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 our laws or in the law of nations (and of course it is to the latter expression I am referring) that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels,...sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no nation is bonnd to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged In it to the penalty of confiscation."...

...Court Reports, 283. That learned Judge says (p. 340), — " There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." This rule, then, is perfectly...

...Judge Story in the case of the Santix*ima Trinidad : — " There is nothing in our lews or in the l*y of nations that forbids our citizens from sending...as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for salo. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the...

...punishable by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, which forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale." 7 Wheaton Reports, p. 283. So as to a later judgment of the same Supreme Court in 1832, in the case...

...of the " Independencia," Mr. Justice Storey said, " But there is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...

...that forbids our citizens from seeding armed vessels as well as " ' munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial " ' adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which 383 ARGUMENT " ' only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of • — ~ " ' confiscation.'...

...in our lawa or in the law of nations (and of course it is to the latter expression I am referring) that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreisn ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which...

...said Mr Justice Story in the famous case of the ' Santissima Trinidad,' * ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munition of war to foreign ports for sale.' Nay further, though without the concurrence of Kent, and...