12 Americans SpeakJohn Edwin Pomfret Huntington Library, 1954 - 183 pages |
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... obligations , or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States , would have found , in its true interest alone , a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas : that an enlarged ...
... obligations , or invited by friendly dispositions on the part of the United States , would have found , in its true interest alone , a sufficient motive to respect their rights and their tranquillity on the high seas : that an enlarged ...
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... obligation . Our own Government has always refused to enforce such contractual obligations on behalf of its citizens by an appeal to arms . It is much to be wished that all foreign governments would take the same view . But they do not ...
... obligation . Our own Government has always refused to enforce such contractual obligations on behalf of its citizens by an appeal to arms . It is much to be wished that all foreign governments would take the same view . But they do not ...
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John Edwin Pomfret. or because any special treaty obligations to which we were parties had been violated , but only ... obligation and whose very system of government flouted the rights of the citizen as against the autocratic authority ...
John Edwin Pomfret. or because any special treaty obligations to which we were parties had been violated , but only ... obligation and whose very system of government flouted the rights of the citizen as against the autocratic authority ...
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