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MARITIME INTERNATIONAL LAW. 



which he delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 9th, 

 1862, he thus eloquently concluded : — 



"With the consummation of these reforms in Maritime Law, not forgetting 

 blockades under international law, war would be despoiled of its most vexatious 

 prerogatives, while innocent neutrals would be exempt from its torments. The 

 Statutes of the Sea, thus refined and elevated, will be the agents of peace, instead 

 of the agents of war. Ships and cargoes will pass unchallenged from shore to 

 shore ; and those terrible belligerent rights, under which the commerce of the 

 world so long suffered, will cease from troubling." 



