The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe: Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped, Volumen2R. Bentley and son, 1883 |
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... blockade , and to cover the import of indispensable supplies into Wilmington and Charleston , might have been a judicious concession to that Government . Some such reflections have doubtless occurred to many who watched the course of ...
... blockade , and to cover the import of indispensable supplies into Wilmington and Charleston , might have been a judicious concession to that Government . Some such reflections have doubtless occurred to many who watched the course of ...
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... blockade in order to protect it . He had no sooner learned the havoc the Alabama and Florida were committing than he instructed me to send out at least four ships of similar type , to provide against their loss or capture . He made ...
... blockade in order to protect it . He had no sooner learned the havoc the Alabama and Florida were committing than he instructed me to send out at least four ships of similar type , to provide against their loss or capture . He made ...
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... blockade , and as the system of blockade - running ex- clusively on Government account had not yet been fully adopted and organized , the only means of shipping was by private vessels , which wanted most of their space for account of ...
... blockade , and as the system of blockade - running ex- clusively on Government account had not yet been fully adopted and organized , the only means of shipping was by private vessels , which wanted most of their space for account of ...
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... blockade , and only two ironclads were ever begun in France . In fact , there was a time when the fiscal agent could not have supplied the funds to meet the instalments , if relief had not come from the compulsory sale of other ships ...
... blockade , and only two ironclads were ever begun in France . In fact , there was a time when the fiscal agent could not have supplied the funds to meet the instalments , if relief had not come from the compulsory sale of other ships ...
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... blockade had become so great , that it was impossible to supply the reduced numbers in the field with effective arms and ammunition , and all other necessary supplies could only be obtained at uncertain intervals and in insufficient ...
... blockade had become so great , that it was impossible to supply the reduced numbers in the field with effective arms and ammunition , and all other necessary supplies could only be obtained at uncertain intervals and in insufficient ...
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Página 409 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 307 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 383 - Her Majesty's Government, in order to evince its desire of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries, and of making satisfactory provision for the future...
Página 358 - South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made,— what is more than either,— they have made a nation.
Página 307 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes...
Página 388 - Alabama claims. And whereas Her Britannic Majesty has authorized her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to express in a friendly spirit the regret felt by Her Majesty's Government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels.
Página 293 - It is erroneous, so far as foreign nations are concerned, to suppose that any war exists in the United States. Certainly there cannot be two belligerent powers where there is no war. There is here, as there has always been, one political power, namely, the United States of America, competent to make war and peace, and conduct commerce and alliances with all foreign nations.
Página 277 - ... whether on the high seas or elsewhere, no foreign power has the right to obtain the exhibition of them. Therefore the colonial council has unanimously concluded that the word of the commanding officer was sufficient. In the second place, the vessel armed for war by private persons is called "privateer.
Página 291 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 330 - They cannot admit that they may have acted with bad faith in maintaining the neutrality they professed. The law officers of the Crown must be held to be better interpreters of a British statute than any foreign Government can be presumed to be. Her Majesty's Government must therefore decline either to make reparation and compensation for the captures made by the ' Alabama,' or to refer the question to any foreign state.