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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ivate armed vessels, so happily styled by the publicists of the United States, "the militia of the sea, " and so often and justly relied on by them as an efficient and admirable instrument of defensive warfare.--I earnestly recommend the immediate passage of a law authorizing me to accept the numerous proposals already received. I cannot close this review of the acts of the Government of the United States without referring to a proclamation issued by their President under date of the 19th April, in which, after declaring that an insurrection has broken out in this Confederacy against the Government of the United States, he announces a blockade of all the ports of these States, and threatens to punish as pirates all persons who shall molest any vessel of the United States under letters of marque issued by this Government. Not withstanding the authenticity of this proclamation you will concur with me that it is hard to believe it could have emanated from a President of the United