It is true, he does not send him rifles or cannon; but he sends him “a great improvement in fire-arms,” through which rifles and cannon and other instruments of death, then preparing to be employed by Rebel hands against the patriot armies of the Republic, might be made more deadly.
He highlights the dangerous implications of sending improvements in weaponry to the enemy during a conflict.
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