Correspondence Relating to the Recall of Mr. Motley: Transmitted to the Senate January 9, 1871, in Compliance with a Resolution |
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15th instant 28th of June advice and consent Alabama claims American announcement appointed archives Britain British government cause civil conflict communication concession of belligerency confidence conflict has arisen contained convention conversation conveyed in precise countries Department diplomatic discussion dispatch England expressed fact feeling foreign affairs grave HAMILTON FISH important inconsistency informed instructions insurgent portion interview with Lord January 9 JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY July July 14 June 12 June last LEGATION letter Lord Clarendon Lord Granville lordship Majesty Majesty's government memoir minister mission Moran Motley's nations negotiation obedient servant October October 11 October 23 official opinion opportunity of resigning paper precise conformity President recognizes President's views principles proclamation of neutrality propriety question reasons recall recognition record refusal rejection relations removal request rumor San Domingo treaty statement submitted subsequent successor telegram telegraph thought tions United States Government United States Secretary Washington wishes to allow
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Page 5 - The President recognizes the right of every power, when a civil conflict has arisen within another state, and has attained a sufficient complexity, magnitude, and completeness, to define its own relations and those of its citizens and subjects toward the parties to the conflict, so far as their rights and interests are necessarily affected by the conflict. The necessity and propriety of the original concession of belligerency by Great Britain at the time it was made have been contested and are not...
Page 4 - Upon one point the President and the Senate and the overwhelming mass of the people are convinced, namely: that the convention, from its character and terms, or from the time of its negotiation or from the. circumstances attending its negotiation, would not have removed the sense of existing grievance; would not have afforded real substantial satisfaction to the people; would not have proved a hearty, cordial settlement of pending questions, but would have left a feeling of dissatisfaction inconsistent...
Page 5 - Powers, and to place the cause of grievance against Great Britain, not so much upon the issuance of her recognition of the insurgents' state of war, but upon her conduct under, and subsequent to, such recognition.
Page 1 - To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 5th instant, a repart from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents-* US GRANT.
Page 29 - The President held, in accordance with the doctrine of the best writers upon international law, and with the precedents of our own history, and as a logical result from the fact of national sovereignty, that it is the right of every Power, when a civil conflict has arisen within another State, and has attained a sufficient complexity, magnitude, and completeness, to defend its own relations and those of its citizens and subjects towards the parties to the conflict, so far as their rights and interests...
Page 37 - ... would look with more scorn and contempt upon one who uses the words and the assurances of friendship to cover a secret and determined purpose of hostility.
Page 2 - Your predecessor has already been directed to notify Lord Clarendon that the Senate has refused its advice and consent to the ratification of the convention signed at London on the 14th January last, for the settlement of all outstanding claims. Under some circumstances, the announcement made to your predecessor of the rejection of this convention might be sufficient. But the magnitude of the claims involved, and the gravity of the questions depending between the two governments...
Page 22 - There were other powers that were contemporaneous with England in similar concession, but it was in England only that the concession was supplemented by acts causing direct damage to the United States. The President is careful to make this discrimination, because he is anxious as much as possible to simplify the case, and to bring into view these subsequent acts, which are so important to determining the question between the two countries.
Page 10 - Secretary and in social intercourse, he failed to follow, and apparently did not grasp, the spirit of his instructions. Confessing to a " despondent feeling " as to the " possibility of the two nations ever understanding each other, — of the difficulty, at this present moment, of their looking into each other's hearts...
Page 4 - ... which have arisen would have been passed upon by a tribunal whose decision either party (much less other nations) would regard as authority, so as to prevent repetition or retaliation. It might, indeed, well have occurred in the event of the selection by lot of the arbitrator or umpire in different cases, involving, however, precisely the same principles, that different awards, resting upon antagonistic principles, might have been made. "If, however, the two...