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Consisting
in his having entertained a proposal
from one yeh and one "Tsun-quei-tsin to assassinate Colonel Caine and give
Caldwell; -
And that this same
one Ych of the Criminal
yah Sessions is the person to whom my present letter
relates.
that thr
I have humbly to represent to This Excellency interests of justice demand the delivery of this prisoner to the
same court which tried and
sentenced.
to
a
just punishment
the
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miscreant's less quilty
accomplice
or victim.
"The jurisdiction attacles
from the moment that
the criminal touches it.
can he
Neither the rights of
plead wad; for
1. Assassination is not
if it were ;-
of them; and 2. The rights of
war do
not belong to those belligerents who wage
it without law or
of law.
formalities
The mere arraignment-
much more the conviction.
yet
mone the punishment.
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