The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-27

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7yws,. commect,nv ,r,n- the excuses which
,>ve hsoo made bx the Yankees for the ssi
,ar. ~ Ms.,rs MACON aud slia.lI observes, in
.,,h.1.n.. ,h., .h.v Asva t.ken Al nrecedeuta
a.. AZ .,sc c.ses of acknowledsed wrong
4on. hx fsr..t nr;ta,n. and endeayored TO
H., sh.m on. into INGREDIENTS A code Of
avs. founded apon precedenss of wrong,
,-von,d eer,s;nlv On. a rerv pretty figure. In
-vpmnon life. va would all be justified in com
mf.tine theft and murder, wherever the per
"a ~ho v.s robbed Or murdered. had him.
ALI hsAu ruil,v of those two crimea Thia 10
,recisely tho code which the Indians and other
savares hays established. and by which they
are euided in THAR dealinvs with the whitss.- -
Il Ia the old law OF rssaliation-a Law abhor.
rent 70 God and fatal to civilization, hich IL re-
ooeuised by no Christian nation, unless in cases
where no other remedy can DO had In the his.
sory Of any powerful nation that ever existed,
sssss may BE- found Of violence not iustif cd
apep any principle known 70 Christian society.
TO no no further. the nsv>s Of French and Eng.
N.h hiatorv ara fnll Of snah. But nobody or ar
dreamed Of layinv than down az nrsoedsuis
usor ~hsah IN fonnd osnsr.I maxims of Law
FIR, Consul panapsrte invaded tho ,arr;tory
Of Baden, which wa neutral territory seized
n political refugee hy force, and had him shot
la it 70 be inferred tharsfrom that ii Ia lawful
20 ssiso refugees upon neutral territory, and il
the party 30 seixing allowed to justify and
plesd this case ~ precedent England sent
u SQUADRON to Copenhasen, a neutral port,
took the whole Dsnisl feet, and bonaLarded
she city Tits was clearly a great wrong but
Il furnishes prcceden. it be determined to
construct u code Of international law upon
cases Of that description. She fred into the
frivste Chesapeake, q neutral vessel, made her
strike her colors, boarded har, took number
Of eeausn from ser whom she claimed 10 be
Enghsh SUBJECTS, and hung several OF them as
deserteEs. here was = WRONG acknowledged,
We think, 10 be wrong oy Inc BRUSH 0ov-
ernment itself. Are We TO form q Law out OF
such precedent Us this, and soIemIy decide
HAT any ship OF war may stop any other ship
OF war al SEQ, search hef ioi oesef'efs or sao
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a, ths;, ewn nart;euiar risk. and in every in.
,,anea maid dearly for il in the end. Thus
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