The Jeff Davis Piracy Cases
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781152973985
Paperback|9781152973985
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ..."shall be adjudged to be a pirate; and being "thereof convicted, before a Circuit Court of "the United States, fur the District into w/iick ' he shult be brought, or in which he-ihull be "found, shall mffer d.uth." This statute, however, does not do awny with the distinction between a privnteer and a pirate. It simplj declares when a citizen of the United States or other person shall be deemed to be guilty of piracy; but it does not say, and it could not sny in fact, whether the prisoner here is a privateer or is a pirate; whether he is a citizen of the United States, or a citizen of the Southern Confederacy, to the extent nt least of protecting him ngainst a charge of piracy. This statute, 1 submit, was not intended to abolish privateering, or to pliice all privateers upon the footing of pirates: nor could it. in fact, have done so had it so designed. That is a matter for international compact; for public treaty between nation and nation; not for private or municipal legislation. And when the United States, in 1855, was appealed to by France and England to abolish privateering by matter of treaty, she declined to do so. Certainly, so far as foreign nations are concerned, the United States would be estopped from taking the ground that her congress has abolished privateering. And whether the Southern Confederacy is simply still -n integral portion of the Union, or whether it is a separate and independent government of its own, de facto if not de jure, to the extent at least of protecting it against a charge of piracy, is one of the very grounds of the defence, and is a question upon which I shall presently ask permission to be heard more fully before the jury. What I say now is, that a pirate, under the statutr, is the same thin...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152973985 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152973983 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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