Excerpt from The Treaty of Washington: A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on Friday, August 4, 1871 Tried by this test, the course taken by the Govern ment was, from first to last, one of strict, honourable, and loyal neutrality. The first thing they did was to issue a Proclamation of Neutrality, for the purpose of making it understood, that we meant to submit to the exercise of belligerent rights on the part of the United States against those of our citizens who might be found guilty of running blockades or of ...
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Excerpt from The Treaty of Washington: A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on Friday, August 4, 1871 Tried by this test, the course taken by the Govern ment was, from first to last, one of strict, honourable, and loyal neutrality. The first thing they did was to issue a Proclamation of Neutrality, for the purpose of making it understood, that we meant to submit to the exercise of belligerent rights on the part of the United States against those of our citizens who might be found guilty of running blockades or of introducing contraband of war, and, at the same time, of warning our citizens that they would be subject to those penalties. So far from that being an unfriendly act, the moment the war actually broke out it was a duty that we owed, both to the Americans and to ourselves, to issue such a proclamation. To say that we were not to recognize the Civil War as a fact, and to make it known that we acknowledged the rights of war when they were asserted against us, was difficult for us to understand. Yet for a long time that was made the head and front of our offending; but it has now dis appeared from the category of imputations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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