Brief Examination and Exposition of the Right of Detention, Visit, and Search in Time of Peace: Examined on Legal Principles and Authorities (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The present aspect of affairs between the United States and Great Britain is calculated to awaken on both sides the most anxious solicitude, and certainly demands the most se rions consideration. The exercise, by the cruisers of her Britannic Majesty, of a claim of right to detain on the oceans American vessels, while engaged in the prosecution of a law ful voyage, and sailing under the flag of their own country, in a time of profound peace, is conceded to be a flagrant out rage under any circumstances. To do this in the seas, so close to our own coast as the narrow passages between the several West India Islands and the territory of the United States, has at least the appearance of superadding indignity and insult to wrong.

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