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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Privateering — its history, law, and Usage. (search)
rights of warfare on private property on the high seas, will be the greatest benefactor of mankind," yet the right of a Government to issue letters of marque to private vessels, to enable them to capture those of an enemy, is as well established by the code of international law as any other vested in the State for its protection and defence. The practice of depredating upon private property upon the sea is certainly of no very recent origin, and during the middle ages, when every petty Barron possessed the privilege of making predatory excursions by land, and the infidel powers covered the Mediterranean with their vessels, it is certain that these depredations were committed with but slight regard to right or justice. Maritime warfare at this period was conducted with such cruelty and barbarity as to render it little short of piracy. Indeed, the mariners of that day were characterized in the Consolato del Mare as a set of robbers, who were frequently united in a sort of copartn