Correspondence in Relation to the Killing of Prisoners in New Orleans on March 14, 1891

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - 109 páginas
Eleven Italian Americans were lynched in New Orleans on March 14, 1891, for their alleged role in the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy, after some of them had been acquitted at trial. Cf. Wikipedia article, viewed April 2, 2020.
 

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Página 43 - ART. 2324. He who causes another person to do an unlawful act, or assists or encourages in the commission of it, is answerable in solido with that person for the damage caused by such act.
Página 42 - They have, in fact, some advantages over citizens of the State in which they happen to be, inasmuch as they are enabled, until they become citizens themselves, to prosecute for any injuries done to their persons or property in the courts of the United States, or the State courts, at their election.
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Página 44 - ... that these events have caused him great pain ; and that he thinks a proper acknowledgment is due to her Catholic Majesty's government. But the outrage, nevertheless, was one perpetrated by a mob, composed of irresponsible persons, the names of none of whom are known to this government ; -nor, so far as the government is informed, to its officers or agents, in New Orleans.
Página 31 - The official assurance by the Federal Government that the guilty parties should be brought to justice. " (2.) The recognition, in principle, that an indemnity is due to the relatives of the victims." The first demand thus stated by Baron Fava is slightly changed in phrase from that employed by him in his many verbal requests based on a telegram from the Marquis Rudini which he left with me. The Marquis Rudini declared GOV. FT NICHOLIA OF LOUISIANA. 427 that " Italy's right to demand and to obtain...
Página 83 - We are under the sad necessity of concluding that what to every other government would be the accomplishment of simple duty is impossible to the Federal Government. It is time to break off the bootless controversy.
Página 32 - Fava, in a note of March 31, 1891, defined the demands of his Government as follows: "The reparation demanded by the Government of the King . . . was to consist of the following points: "(1) The official assurance by the Federal Government that the guilty parties should be brought to trial. "(2) The recognition, in principle, that an indemnity is due to the relatives of the victims.
Página 29 - The reparation demanded by the Government of the king, as I have had the honor to inform you in our interviews held during the last few days, was to consist of the following points : — " (1.) The official assurance by the Federal Government that the guilty parties should be brought to justice. " (2.} The recognition, in principle, that an indemnity is due to the relatives of the victims.

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