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MARITIME RIGHTS.
- weakened in peace, while she is rendered powerless at sea in war; and that unless she withdraws from it in time of peace she will be held bound by it in time of war, not by her enemy alone, but also by the neutral nations who will profit by it.
- That it is therefore necessary that Great Britain should without delay withdraw from the Declaration of Paris, and declare it not to be binding.
The sole object of this League is to Procure the withdrawal of Great Britain from the Declaration of Paris of 1856.
The action of the League will be to spread the knowledge of the subject in every possible way—whether by disseminating that which has been already written
