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THE DECLARATION OF PARIS
AND
MARITIME RIGHTS.
CHAPTER I.
Blockades.
To begin with, What is "War ?
War is a sentence of death and confiscation pronounced against your enemy for refusing to do you Justice. War for any other motive, or on any other pretext, is the greatest of national crimes; and wars of ambition or aggrandisement are brigandage and rapine on a stupendous scale. War is
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