Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sparing Private Property in War at Sea: Two Letters to Mr. Gregory on His Motion of March 2, 1866
From that period down to the present time - that is to say for four more ears - the Nation has remained unvexed by this at once contemptib'le and dangerous proposition. It now ?oats up again to the surface, no longer through the art of designing and nu scrupulous men, but only by its own inherent buoyancy)
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