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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Matters on the Border. (search)
complaisance which Lord Russell had manifested towards the despotism of the Yankees is as true as it must be humiliating to every Englishman who has the proper feeling for his country. England herself was the power that called the Convention of Paris. Her representative was the first to propose a plan for the abolition of paper blockades. One of these paper blockades had actually, in former times, produced a war between her and those very United States who are now adopting the very policy for the prosecution of which she made war on England. With all the solemnity which it is possible to impart to public law, the Convention of Paris agreed that "blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient to prevent access to the coast of the enemy." There is no instance in history of a public law adopted with so much solemnity. It was subscribed to by every State in Europe. It was assented to by the United States. Yet England has all