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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 56: commerce-destroyers.-their inception, remarkable career, and ending. (search)
are apt to follow so liberal a course as was pursued towards the Confederates, during the American civil war, by certain European governments. So many arguments have been advanced for and against the system adopted by the Confederate Government inthe Confederate cruisers with the precedents which have governed vessels-of-war in modern times, and their toleration by European governments must be due to the fact that the said governments believed the union of the States was finally dissolved, anWhat is now chiefly required by the United States is an adequate naval establishment such as will command the respect of European powers. Under such circumstances, we would never have to fear a recurrence of such dreadful scenes as were common on boising himself through the vessels he bonded, through foreign vessels, or otherwise. His object was to show the people of Europe the dreadful havoc the Confederates were making on American commerce; and, although by this course he ran the risk of bei
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 58: conclusion. (search)
tes vessel-of-war San Jacinto, stating that such a course was as offensive to France as to England, and, in fact, to all European governments; and announcing in his dispatch the course France would pursue under like circumstances — his real policy beCompare the results of this great war in matters connected with the Navy alone with those of any other scene of action in Europe or elsewhere, and it will be seen that history offers no example where so much was accomplished in so short a time, or whcitizens to captivity. We had experience enough during the war of the rebellion to satisfy us that there were certain European governments that desired the downfall of the American Union, and it was only by means of an abject compliance with theirelementary science of naval construction that we cannot keep pace even with the modern examples that have been set us by European powers. We can be no more exempt from war than others; indeed, our weak condition is so well understood by all the wo
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