The formal accordance of belligerent rights to the insurgent States was unprecedented, and has not been justified by the issue.
Considered as a question of expediency, I regard the accordance of belligerent rights still to be as unwise and premature as I regard it to be, at present, indefensible as a measure of right.
A recognition of the independence of Cuba being, in my opinion, impracticable and indefensible, the question which next presents itself is that of the recognition of belligerent rights in the parties to the contest.
The renunciations in these Orders are a waiver only of certain parts of the Queen's belligerent rights, and in no way diminish the state of war between England and Russia.
The concession of belligerent rightson land was a name and nothing more, therefore I say nothing about it.
I refer to the Concession of Belligerent Rights, being the first stage to independence.
Great European nations under the lead of France and England had already recognized the claim of the Southern armies to belligerent rights.
Though certain foreign powers, including Brazil, have conceded to this Rebel combination what are called “belligerent rights,” yet the extent of this concession is undecided.
Recognition of Cuban independence, or intervention in favor of the Cubans, would have been the equivalent of the grant of belligerent rights.
Nor did he then deem the grant of belligerent rights to the Cubans as either expedient or properly warranted by the circumstances.
In this state of things, this Court cannot but respect the belligerent rights of both parties, and does not treat as pirates the cruisers of either so long as they act under and within the scope of their respective commissions.
To them a blockade is an act of belligerent rights.
It is impossible to recede from the consequences of the virtual recognition of belligerent rightsinvolved in the exchange of these captives, under the chosen designation of "prisoners of war.
In pure and absolute principle of modern (not Roman) jus gentium, rebels have not only no belligerent rights, but not any rights at all.
His giving Mr. Seward a copy of the Exposition of the French Jurists on the question of Belligerent Rights, as he did before of M.
The present change has been mainly produced by our preparations for defence and by the quiet firmness with which we have maintained the position we took up with regard to Belligerent Rights.
Belligerent rights, it was admitted, might be superadded to the rights of sovereignty.
But supposing it to be so, the Republic is possessed of belligerent rights.
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