On the record
Its application to the case of insurgents against an established and recognized government is later, involves other and in some respects different considerations, and cannot even now be regarded as settled.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine discusses the complexities of applying belligerency laws to insurgents against recognized governments.
Share
More from James Blaine
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
Emboldened by the support of the National Administration, the Southern leaders believed that they could carry their designs through, and, instead of being restrained by the protest or the advice of Republicans, they chose with apparent…
Other voices in this conversation
