. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^^----^^-^-rv!: O? 011^ JJauy unh t\^t Mmktxht. Stej)hens M-aives the great questions of international lawinvolved, as to the fvn-nishing of ships to a belligerent by a neu-tral, and takes no note of the stringent blockade which cameso soon to jsrevent the sending abroad of cotton. His remarks,however, illustrate the enormous financial advantage which theSouth would have had, had it been able to send its cottonabroad, and to bring in freely the many things which go tomake an army efficient and without which, in so large degree,the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^^----^^-^-rv!: O? 011^ JJauy unh t\^t Mmktxht. Stej)hens M-aives the great questions of international lawinvolved, as to the fvn-nishing of ships to a belligerent by a neu-tral, and takes no note of the stringent blockade which cameso soon to jsrevent the sending abroad of cotton. His remarks,however, illustrate the enormous financial advantage which theSouth would have had, had it been able to send its cottonabroad, and to bring in freely the many things which go tomake an army efficient and without which, in so large degree,the South waged the war until it came to the extremity of want. Christopher G. JNIemminger (aforetime Confederate Sec-retary of the Treasury) wrote Stejihens, September 17, 1867, As for tlic notion, since promulgated, of shipping cotton to Eng-land early in the war and holding it there as the basis of credit, that iscompletely negatived, as you know, by the fact that at the early stageof the war no one expected the blockade or the war to last more thana year.* The South itself thus helped the Xorth by its wan
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