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Rights of belligerents.

The London Times continues to enlighten the unhappy wretches of Lincoln's Cabinet, upon the rights of belligerents under the doctrines of the United States Government as laid down by Secretary Marcy. It brings before them the undeniable fact that the U, States have always been the especial champions of central rights on the ocean and of privateers. It also mentions a stunning fact, which had escaped our attention, that the United States had in the case of the King of Naples declined the right of a Government to blockade its own ports!

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