Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-07-30

| eSs, ",'a Sosts Inc muster and owners of
every merchant vessel so Nv Their, delivere5
over, detained or yisited, for every xexa,;o,,s ~,
ABUSIVE exercise of the right In tie case Of
every vessel delivered over, Us herein stipulated
LOT traai, the tribunal shall be competent to re-,
ceive the complaint of the master. owner. mr.
owners, or OF any person on board Of such can
.uted Vcssei, or interested in the property Other
cargo at the time of her detention, aud on suita-
Die proof of such vcxatious or abusive dcten,inn
Ut VISITATION, TO award reasonable damages and
costs TO the sufferers, 10 be paid by the said com
inand,ng or boarding officer, or either of the,n..
SO charged with vexatious or abusive detention
or VISIT. And the higlicontracting parties agree
mat their respective governments SHALL in ssve
~ such case, cause payment to be made of an
such manages costs SO awarded, to the persons
40 cnti,lcd to receive them, within twelve
months from the date Of such award And If
any case oil such vcXatious or abusive detenti.n.
or visit, Should occur, in which the vessel de-
fa1ned or visited shall not be delivered over for
ttiai and adjudication, as herein provided, the
commander and boarding officer by whom
s,ich vcxatious and abusive detention or visit
shall have been made, shall, ALSO he responsible
IN costs and damages TO the sufferers upon com
plant before The competent Admiralty Court Of
the country OF The said commander and boarding
officer And the respective goy erninents shall, i'm
IKE manner, causa payment to be rpade of any
damages and costs awarded by said court, with
IN twelve months from the date of the award
ARTICLE IL. A copy OF this Convention, and
OF the law; OF the two countries actually in force
Tor the prohibition and suppression of the African
slave trade, shsil be furnished to every comman-
der OF the public vessels, instructed TO carry IN
TO effect such prohibition. And in case any
such commanding officer of the E;vy of the u.
States, or OF Great Britain, shall t.eviate in any
respectFroin the dispositions Of this treaty, ana
irem the instructions of his government, confor-
Hiacle To II, the government which shall conceive
ltsen To be wronged by such conduct, shall be
entitled to demand PREPARATION; and in such case
the government of the nation. TO the service or
which he may belong, binds itself TO cause in
curry to be made into the subject OF the COM
plant, and to milict upon him if he be found to
nave deserved 1t, n punishment proportional TO
the transgression which may have been COM
mitted.
ARTICLE H. The present treaty consisting
Of articles, shall be ratified, and the ratiii
cations exchanged within one year from this
date, or sooner, if possible.
In witness Whereof the respective plenipotcn-
fixed their seals.
Done at -, the - day of -, in the
year of our Lord -.
.hr. adams to Mr.. .Mildlefon.-No IT.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Washington, 28ih July, 1893
SIR: at the close Of the last session of Con
rress, resolution adopted by the House of
Representatives almost unanimously, requesting
'rhe President OF the United States to enter up
on. and TO prosecute, from time TO time suCh
negotiations with tile several maritime powers
of Europe and America, as he NAV deem expe
dent, for the eficctual abolition of the African
slave trade, and its Ultimate denunciation rs nj
racy, under the law of nations, by tie consent
OF the civilized worII"
In pursuance Of this resolution, instructions
for carrying il into effect, have been giyen to
the Ministers the United States, destined 10
the Republics 81 Colombia and of Busnos Ayres.
and 10 the minister who has recently departed
Tor Spain But, as negotiation for co-opera-
iion to effect the suppression of the African
slave trade, had already been commenced in
Great Britain, special instruction upon the
subject was forwarded to Mr.. Rush, together
witfa full power ard draft of convention, TO
be proposed in substance, to that Government,
and which he has been authorized to conclude
copy OF that instruction and draft arc here
with enclosed the general terms of which YOU
will communicate, at such time, and in SUCH
TO the Imperial Russian Government.
as you shall think proper.
You will, also, communicate TO them the pur-
port of the resolution of the House of Rcprescp-
tatvcs, above cited and copies of the laws of the
United States, prohibiting the slave trade You
will particularly invite their attention to the
tw sections Of the act OF the 18th MAY, 1920,
by which this offence, when committed by citi-
zcns OF the United States is subjected to the pc
naites OF piracy.
The proposal that this principle should be re-
cognized by the general consent of civilized ma.
lions, recommended by the resolution of the
House of Representatives, appears to be sub
siantially the same with that made b.; Great Bri-
tain at the Congress of Verona. 1t was not ac-
coded to by any one of the other powers there
assembled, and the conferences on this subject
terminated there b. mere renewal of the Joint
declaration against the traffic, of the Congress
at Vienna. So lorg as the trade shall not be
recognized as piracy by the iaw of nations, we
cannot, according to orr constitution, subject
Our citizens to trial for being engaged in it, by
any tribunal other thGn those OF the United
States.
The admission of the crime as piracy, by the
law ofnatioas, would seem neces,ariiy to sub
jet the perpetrators OF it 10 capture, by the
armed force of every nation. And this might
endanger the lawful commerce of the maritime
nations, by subjecting them to the abuses of
vexatious searches without some special pro-
vision to- guard against them.
This is the object Of the stipulations proposed
in the draft herewith transmitted requiring that
all vessels of one nation, which may be captur-
ed, as slave traders, by the cfuihers of another,
should DC delivered over for trial TO the tribu-
nails of their olcp country.
You will sec that Mr.. Rush is instructed TO
correspond with you upon this subject. If the
draft of the articles enclosed should lead TO the
conclusion of convention between the United
States and Great Britain, communication oft
to the Russian Government will be made
eoon nc nossihle and we shall Dropose that Iiis