Download or read book The Argument at Geneva; a Complete Collection of the Forensic Discussions on the Part of the United States and of Great Britain, Before the Tribunal O written by United States and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...Great Britain. There is no reason to doubt that they were in fact validly commissioned, according to established usage under the authority of commissions and orders issued by the Government of the Confederate States. The circumstance that the particular act" by which the vessel was invested with a public character was in each case done, not within the territory held and con l Appendix to British Case, vol. iii, p. 86. " See British Counter Case, p. 20, note. ' trolled by that Government, but at sea, was not, according to usage, material, since it is perfectly competent for any Government to commission, out of its dominions, vessels which may never have been within the circuit of them, and this has been of no infrequent occurrence. Indeed, in the very year 1864, in which the Shenandoah was commissioned, a merchant vessel called the Takiang was chartered and commissioned for the United States naval service at Shanghai, and an oflicer, a party of men, and a gun having been placed on board of her, she was dispatched to join the allied fleet in Japan, where she took part in the action fought at Simonasaki on t-he 4th of September." 103. The only question, therefore, which remains is, whether the circumstancc that the Confederate States, though recognized as belligerent, had not been recognized as sovereign, made it the duty of the authorities of neutral ports, in this one particular respect, not to treat vessels commissioned by the Oonfederate Government as they would have been bound to treat commissioned ships of a recognized Power. The answer to this question cannot be doubtful, if we consider, in the first place, the principle of a. recognition of belligerency; and, secondly, the reason of the general immunity from...