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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], An English Opinion of the blockade. (search)
ws which all are bound in respect.-- involves taking possesion and permanent occupation and on this account it has been laid down that the blockade must be rest and effective" it is quite true that in its desperate struggle against Napoleon, openly supported then by the whole of Europe, and secretly favored by the United States, the British Government declared whole coasts in a state of blockade. But these measures, which were never up to, were called forth by those mad decrees of Berlin, Milan, and Fontaineblea , by which the French Emperor attempted to close Europe against our goods and to us annihilate our manufactured. But this precedent cannot be appealed to by the American Government, inasmuch as it protected repeatedly against those Orders in Council. It has always insisted that the presence of a competent force at the entrance of the post is necessary to make a blockade effective. We find this doctrine plainly enunciated in the ordinances of the Congress of the Confeder