Speech #460084613

I believe- The duty of political justice therefore prompts us to make these prodid promise that these claims should be insisted on. and should be paid. they both visions. j st as irn the case of the Now Madrid earthquake on the Misexceeded their authority. and promised what they had no power to perform. or to siseippi in the early history of this country. that everybody is familiar pledge the Queen to perform. The Queen might or not. as she thought fit. have with. where the homes of a great mass of settlerslocated in a partioumade peace at all. lar section of the country weredestroyed byan earthquake. a calamity Just as the Government of the United States might oi might not. that. I take it. even my friend from Ohio would not claim to give a as it thought fit. have charged the government of Great Britain with right to subrogation or auything else against the Government of the being an accessory and an aider and abettor in these acts of belliger- United States. it was thought wise. and I believe by the unanimous ency against rho United States carried on by the confederate govern vote of Congress. to make provision fora special hardship and to give ment while it existed. new lands that had not been shaken bytheforces of nature to allthe She might or not. as she thought fit. have insisted on thismoney being paid her. settlers of that regionjust as in dozens of instances in respect of She actedthionghout the making of the treaty and in relation to each and svery refugees during the war of 1812. in respect of refugees from Nova of it.s stipulatione in her sovereign character. and bv her own inherent author- Scotia during the war of the Revolution driven out by the Tories ity. and. as in making the treaty. so in performing the treaty. she is beyond the there. who came to this country. we made provision for them. they conril of municipal law. and her acts as- not to a examinel in her own courts. adhered to our sidejust as in a thousand instances that occur from It is a treat.y between herself as sovereign and the Emperor of China as sovoreign. and thougl lie might complain of the infraction. if infraction there were. of its Congress to Congress where souse special calamity or hardship has provisions. her subjects cannot. We do not say that under no circumstances can fallen upon some special citizen or class of citizens of our commonthe Crown be a trustee. we do niet even say that under no circumstances can the wealth. the justice of Congress in its political character and in its Crown he an agent. bt it. seems clearto 6i that in al that relates to the making political sense gives them out of the contributions of all something and performance of a treaty with another sovereign the Crown is not. and cannot to Make it good. he cii her a irustee or an agent for any subject whatever. We do is. indeed. doubt that on the payment of the money by the Ermiour of It was upon that principle. and upon that only. as I understand it.