Seward and the Declaration of Paris: A Forgotten Diplomatic Episode, April-August, 1861Classic Textbooks, 1912 - 61 pages |
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Page 7 - ... 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective; that is to say, maintained by forces sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 25 - Can it be an occasion for either surprise or complaint that if this condition of things is to remain and receive the deliberate sanction of the British government, the navy of the United States...
Page 24 - Government disallows your assumption that the insurgents of this country are a lawful naval belligerent; and, on the contrary, it maintains that the ascription of that character by the government of Brazil to insurgent citizens of the United States, who have hitherto been, and who still are, destitute of naval forces, ports, and courts, is an act of intervention, in derogation of the law of nations, and unfriendly and wrongful, as it is manifestly injurious to the United States.
Page 38 - From several of the papers now published it appears that it was only an act of common prudence ou the part of the governments of Great Britain and France not to accept the accession of this country to the declaration of Paris without stating distinctly what obligations they intended by doing so to assume with regard to the seceded States. Little doubt can remain, after reading the papers, that the accession was offered solely with a view to the effect it would have on the privateering operations...
Page 24 - If the law of- Great Britain must be left without amendment, and be construed by the government in conformity with the rulings of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, then there will be left for the United States no alternative but to protect themselves and their commerce against armed cruisers proceeding from British ports, as against the naval forces of a public enemy...
Page 32 - I would demand explanations from of July Russell of the Times had a talk with him at the State Department. In the course of it, six weeks after writing the dispatch of May 21st, the Secretary said : — " We have less to fear from a foreign war than any country in the world. If any European power provokes a war, we shall not shrink from it. A contest between Great Britain and the United States would wrap the world in fire, and at the end it would not be the United States which would have to lament...
Page 7 - ... who had agreed, and those who should afterwards accede to it, should, after the adoption of the same, enter into no arrangement on the application of maritime law in time of war without stipulating for a strict observance of the four points resolved by the declaration. The...
Page 27 - Governments have chosen in some of their public papers to say they are so. ... Our view is on the contrary. . . . We do not admit, and we shall never admit, even the fundamental statement you assume, namely, that Great Britain and France have recognized the insurgents as a belligerent party. True, you say that they have so declared. We reply : Yes, but they have not declared so to us. You may rejoin : Their public declaration concludes the fact. We nevertheless reply: It must be not their declarations,...
Page 25 - ... government and the citizens of the United States. To this end this government is now preparing a naval force with the utmost vigor; and if the national navy, which it is rapidly creating, shall not be sufficient for the emergency, then the United States must bring into employment such private armed naval forces as the mercantile marine shall afford. British ports, domestic as well as colonial, are now open, under certain restrictions, to the visits of piratical...
Page 57 - You will in any event desist from all intercourse whatever, unofficial as well as official, with the British Government, so long as it shall continue intercourse of either kind with the domestic enemies of this country [confining yourself to a delivery of a copy of this paper to the Secretary of State. After doing this.] When intercourse shall have been arrested for this cause, you will communicate with this department and receive further directions.