Thomas Erskine Holland: “Still more unwarrantable is the Russian claim to interfere with the trade in raw cotton.”

The need for pressure of any kind is, of course, regrettable, the only question being whether such limited pressure be not more humane to the nation which experiences it, and less distasteful to the nation which exercises it, than is the…

It has now come to cover, and it is the only term which does cover generically, an indeterminate list of unfriendly acts, such as embargo, pacific blockade, seizure of custom-houses, and even occupation of territory, to which resort is had…

But I go further, and think the softening of manners can alone bring about this result, which cannot be attained by a codification of the law of war.

No, you must attack all the resources of the enemy's Government: its finances, its railways, its stores, and even its prestige.