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Strike the Prize Court out of modern maritime law and the whole system falls, and capture on the sea becomes pure barbarism,--distinguished from piracy only by the astuteness of a legal technicality.
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Blaine emphasizes the importance of the Prize Court in maritime law and its implications for warfare.
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The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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