Albert Beveridge: “It is therefore of the last importance to neutrals that this principle be maintained unimpaired.”

Heart-breaking and pitiful was the aspect of these soldiers of liberty.

It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.