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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
the innocent Rams, not against their owners, while, by the possession of the the new owners inherited themselves any possible claims in respect of the seizure. The purchase is comprehensive and conclusive. For £220,000, it appears, Government has become possessed of two tremendous engines which we most devoutly hope, and most certainly expect, it will never have the least occasion for. But, though this concludes everything as between Government and the Federal, the Confederates and Mr. Laird, it leaves Parliamentary speakers something to say still. Is not the precedent dangerous? Will not men now build all sorts of infernal devices on the speculation that if no belligerent will take them our own Government will? How that may be we know not, but England may congratulate itself on the possession of private ship building yards capable of turning out such monsters of the deep, even without an immediate demand, and with the purchaser still to present himself. The possession of