The Divina Pastora

17 U.S. 37 (____)

4 Wheat. 37

The DIVINA PASTORA: The SPANISH CONSUL, Claimant.

Supreme Court of United States.

Winder, for the appellants.

Webster and D.B. Ogden, contra.

MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.

The decision at the last term, in the case of the United States v. Palmer, 3 Wheat. 610, establishes the principle, that the government of the United States, having recognised the existence of a civil war between Spain and her colonies, but remaining neutral, the courts of the Union are bound to consider as *64] lawful those acts which war authorizes, and which *the new…