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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 31: (search)
This involved an acknowledgment of the Confederate government as a government de facto having the sovereign rights of war, yet the Executive Department of the United States government, with reckless malignity, denounced our cruisers as pirates, our citizens as insurgents and traitors, and the action of our government as an insurrection. It has been stated that during the war of the colonies with Great Britain many of the prizes of the colonial cruisers were destroyed. This was done by Paul Jones and other commanders, although during the entire period of the war some of the colonial ports were open, into which prizes could be taken. In that war Great Britain did not attempt to blockade all the ports of the colonies. Sailing vessels only were then known, and with these a stringent blockade at all seasons could not have been maintained. But at the later day of our war the powerful steamship had appeared, and revolutionized the commerce and the navies of the world. During the firs