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But when foreign governments recognized in the insurgents the rights of ocean belligerency, they went beyond the fact.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “But when foreign governments recognized in the insurgents the rights of ocean belligerency, they went beyond the fact.”
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Blaine critiques foreign governments for recognizing the Confederacy's rights during the Civil War.
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