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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 214 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--ten dollars reward. (search)
, and they were the acts of the two most formidable powers (the one on land the other on sea) then in existence. Now Great Britain continues to be one of the most powerful nations on earth, and the United States are the scorn and the mockery of theforth a hand to avert their doom.--Nay! they would rather assist to render it the more absolutely overwhelming. Great Britain contended for the right of search for nearly two centuries. The assertion of that supposed right gave rise to the arme contrary, has constantly contended against the existence of any such right. They deny it when it makes in favor of Great Britain.-- They exercise it when it makes in favor of themselves. Will Great Britain submit to a rule which works only one wGreat Britain submit to a rule which works only one way? We neither know nor care; but we know what she would have done sixty years ago, when William Pitt the younger was Prime Minister of England, and Nelson was "Britannia's God of War." In the present instance, not only the general law of neutralit
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--$100 reward. (search)
nominious death. The whole civilized world would stand aghast at such unparalleled inhumanity. In the late war with England, the privateers of the North infested every sea, and inflicted incalculable injuries upon British commerce.--Yet Great Britain never treated them as pirates, and never sentenced a single captive privateersman to the gallows. If it be pretended that this was because the United States was not regarded by Great Britain as a rebel, why did she not treat privateers as piGreat Britain as a rebel, why did she not treat privateers as pirates in the Revolution? Northern privateering began with the very beginning of the revolutionary war, and never stopped till its close. British commerce was waylaid and attacked even in the British channel, and yet there never was a case in which one of our captives was treated by the British Government as a pirate. It remained for the North, which had employed this arm of national defence in the Revolution and in the late war, to proclaim privateering to be piracy, and to prove itself more