Speech of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina : In Senate, March 13, 1840. The following resolutions were taken up for consideration : Resolved, That a ship ... on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, is according to the laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State to which her flag belongs ; as much so as if constituting a part of her own domain
Concerns the brig Enterprise which was blown off its Charleston, S.C. course and whose negroes were forcibly seized by local British authorities in Bermuda.
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