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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Southern war News. (search)
rcial men. With the French population the war in especially unpopular, and the French regiment of New York, known as the Gards Lafayette, could only be mustered into service by filling up its ranks — once exclusively French--with men of other nationalities. Changeable. Cairo appears to be an unhealthy place for Yankee generals. First Gen. Prentiss was superseded by Gen. Grant, and now Grant has been superseded by Gen. Charles. F. Smith, We have not learned who will supersede Smith. cial men. With the French population the war in especially unpopular, and the French regiment of New York, known as the Gards Lafayette, could only be mustered into service by filling up its ranks — once exclusively French--with men of other nationalities. Changeable. Cairo appears to be an unhealthy place for Yankee generals. First Gen. Prentiss was superseded by Gen. Grant, and now Grant has been superseded by Gen. Charles. F. Smith, We have not learned who will supersede Smith
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
udge, in another charge, leclares that pirates. "Are in the eye of the law, hostes humani reneris, enemies not of one nation, or of one sort of people only, but of all mankind.--They are outlawed, as I may say, by the laws of all nations — that is, out of the protection of all Princes and of all laws whatsoever.--Everybody is commissioned, and is to be armed against them, as against rebels and traitors, to subdue and root them out." Judge Story, in the case of the United States vs. Smith, says: "There is scarcely a writer on the law of nations who does not allude to piracy as a crime of a settled and determined nature, and whatever may be the diversity of definitions in other respects, all writers concur in holding that robbery or forcible depredations upon the sea, a mimo furandi, is piracy." He, however, carefully guard against the idea that a mere excess of power in a lawfully commissioned ship is sufficient to constitute piracy, and in this respect follows th