So far as the neutral Government is concerned, its subjects may carry even cannon and gunpowder to a belligerent port, while the belligerent, on the other hand, who is injured by the trade may take all necessary stops to suppress it.
Holland states that subjects of a neutral government may trade arms, while belligerents can take action against such trade.
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It is surely desirable that henceforth Great Britain should know, and that other nations should at least have the means of knowing, for certain, whether she is at war or at peace.
To open and facilitate the settlement of trifling disputes between nations by judicial methods, war being unquestionably a method out of all proportion in such cases.
The only legitimate object which States should set before themselves during war is to weaken the military forces of the enemy.
Great Britain, for one, has no desire for an acre of new territory on the American continent.
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