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s the law of nations decide that contraband of war cannot be carried to a country at war? Is it not because a nation, professing to be neutral, has no right to assist the enemy of a nation at war, while she is herself enjoying all the privileges, immunities, and advantages of peace? And unless the property made the subject of seizure be going to the country at war, how can it benefit, or be supposed to benefit, such belligerent country? Suppose a columbiad, or a rifled cannon, or a lot of Sharpe's rifles, or powder, or anything else of a contraband character, should be found at sea, on a neutral vessel on its way to England, a country neutral in this war, could it be lawfully seized, even though it should prove to have been shipped from Charleston? Unquestionably it could not, for the simple reason that it is not coming to the country of war, and therefore cannot be designed for its benefit. And yet these articles are clearly contraband of war. The law means nothing more than to p