[256] Senate Documents, 19th Cong. 1st Sess., No. 102, p. 430.
[257] Mr. Webster, in his careful speech of 12th January, 1835, says: “So far as can be learned from official reports, there are something more than six hundred vessels with their cargoes which are supposed to form claims under this bill.”—Works, Vol. IV. p. 177.
[258] From a Review of the Veto Message of President Pierce, by James H. Causten, pp. 21, 22.
[259] Institutes of Natural Law, Book I. ch. 17, § 5.
[260] De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Lib. II. cap. 17, § 4.
[261] Le Droit des Gens, Liv. II. ch. 18, § 342.
[262] Elements of International Law (ed. Lawrence), Part IV. ch. 1, § 3.
[263] The Amiable Nancy, 3 Wheaton, R., 560.
[264] Hon. S. P. Chase.
[265] Favorable statement of facts, without coming to any conclusion.