Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of Hon. R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, on Harbor Defenses: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 11, 1852
But all will agree that no great European war can take place without endangering our peaceful relations with one or other' of the belligerents. We are admonished, therefore, not to neglect those preparatory defenses which, in war, would be indispensable for the protection of our sea-board.
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