Thus is the freedom of the sea enlarged in the name of peaceful neutral rights, not only by limiting the number of persons exposed to the penalties of war, but by driving from it the most offensive pretension that ever stalked upon its waves.
Sumner argues that the freedom of the sea is being expanded through the recognition of peaceful neutral rights.
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