Note 23 — Chapter I
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See Report, Secretary of State, July 6, 1812, Am. State Papers, For. Rel. iii, 583-85.
"These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on the high seas, whatsoever be her cargo, and whatsoever foreign port be that of her departure or destination, shall be deemed lawful prize." (Jefferson to Congress, Special Message, March 17, 1808, Works: Ford, xi, 20.)
"The only mode by which either of them [the European belligerents] could further annoy the other ... was by inflicting ... the torments of starvation. This the contending parties sought to accomplish by putting an end to all trade with the other nation." (Channing: Jeff. System, 169.)