As these claims for French spoliations are still continued (1850), I give some of the speeches for and against them fifteen years ago, believing that they present the strength of the argument on both sides.
This was a convention for indemnity for spoliations on American commerce, committed twenty years before the time of General Jackson's administration.
How, then, shall we be persuaded that, in virtue of this guaranty, we are bound to pay the debts and make good the spoliations of France?
It extended to all claims for spoliations upon our commerce, since the existence of the government, which we had failed to collect.
The pretensions of the United States, to which allusion is thus made, arose out of the spoliations under color of French authority, in contravention of law and existing treaties.
By Magna Carta John bound himself to make restitution for some of the spoliations he had committed upon individuals "without the legal judgment of their peers.
The American claims for French spoliations upon American ships during the operation of Napoleon's Berlin and Milan decrees had been under discussion for many years.
Yet, from this same country did our Government succeed in obtaining not only reparation for the spoliations committed, but a surrender of the Western posts also.
It therefore follows, that their repeal does not affect the justice of the war; unless accompanied with compensation for the spoliations committed under them, and atonement made for other wrongs.
I shall not attempt to exhibit an account between the belligerents of mercantile spoliationsinflicted and menaced.
It received a stroke, sir, deep and dangerous, and almost mortal, from the tremendous system of spoliations commenced by Great Britain in 1793.
Would it have been proper in them to have claimed on behalf of our citizens no indemnity for the vast amount of spoliations which have been made on the property of American merchants?
In the deed by which Bishop Robert founds the Deanery and Precentorship, he distinctly says that his object is to secure the Canons against such spoliations as they had suffered at the hands of the Provosts.
But at Wells these spoliations had an important effect on the constitution of the church.
Until the time when the first of the Stuarts ascended the English throne, all the successive spoliations of Ireland, even the last under Elizabeth, at the end of the Geraldine war, were made to the advantage of the English nobility.
Then began the long series of spoliations which desolated the whole of France along the Seine, the Loire, and the Garonne.
Spoliations during a former war, for which she had acknowledged herself responsible, have been refused to be compensated but on conditions affecting other claims in no wise connected with them.
Three hundred thousand dollars is appropriated by the United States to liquidate Cherokee claims against the United States for spoliations of every kind.
Rushing to cross at Moy, they met an old woman - still smarting under the insults andspoliations inflicted on her and her neighbours by the Macdonalds on their way north - and asked her where was the best ford on the river.
By Magna Carta John bound himself to make restitution for some of the spoliations he had committed upon individuals "without the legal judgment of their peers.
At the time when that convention was concluded many interesting subjects were left unsettled, and particularly our claim to indemnity for spoliations which were committed on our commerce in the late wars.
The negotiation with Spain forspoliations on our commerce and the settlement of boundaries remains essentially in the state it held by the communications that were made to Congress by my predecessor.
Thus, at the very beginning, these spoliations were recognized by both Governments in their true character.
Our plenipotentiaries depicted the spirit in which French spoliations had their origin, and the humiliating consequences of submission to the outrage; but the personal sufferers are, down to this day, without redress.
Claims of citizens of the United States against France, founded on spoliations of our commerce, as seen in their origin and history.
This distinction seems to have been unnecessary, for the French spoliations were clearly as much in contravention of the Law of Nations as of the treaties.
And yet these sufferers, thus unique in situation, have been compelled to see all other claims for foreign spoliations satisfied, while they alone have been turned away.
The attempt would be entirely vain to regather the disjecta membra of the great body of Irish church temporalities long since dispersed and broken up by successive spoliations and alienations.
Spoliations during a former war, for which she had formally acknowledged herself responsible, have been refused to be compensated but on conditions affecting other claims in no wise connected with them.
She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish ports were included in the settlement between the United States and France.
If she had kept the charge committed to her, the inequalities and spoliations now burdening society would not be in existence.
The cynical dishonesties and the brutal spoliations which have come to light in the realm of high finance and big business are the natural fruit of such a manner of life as many of our recent novelists have vividly portrayed.
Three grounds have been mentioned; the dismission of our Minister, the spoliations on our ships, and the interference with our Government, in attempting to divide the people from it.
Why did they commit spoliations upon our commerce long before the British Treaty was ever dreamt of?
Witness our spoliations from Algerine, English, and French cruisers, from some of which he himself had suffered materially.
Were not wanton spoliations committed on your commerce by Great Britain, by France, and by Spain, to the amount of very many millions; and all adjusted through the medium of negotiations?
We had injuries to complain of against France, for the spoliations committed upon our commerce.
These spoliations were of immense magnitude, and demanded the most serious notice of our Government.
Even before the outbreak of the war in 1812, contrary to the general opinion, the amount of direct spoliations upon American commerce inflicted by France and the nations then under her influence exceeded that experienced from Great Britain.
It was part of the foreign policy of Jackson’s administration to compel the payment of the long standing claims for spoliations on American commerce by the great European belligerents.
The boundary question with England, and the long-standing claims for French spoliations prior to 1801, also pressed for solution.
Spoliations may arise from unjust orders, given by the government of a belligerent nation to their officers and cruisers, and these may be redressed by application to and negotiation with that order.
Relating to spoliations committed on the commerce of the United States under Spanish authority and to the imprisonment of the American consul at St. Jago de Cuba.
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