Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " History is false to her trust when she betrays the cause of truth, even under the influence of patriotic impulses. It is not true that all the virtue was in the Whig camp [during the Eevolution,] or that the Tories were a horde of ruffians. They were conservatives, and their error was in carrying to excess the sentiment of loyalty [to their King, just as the error of the Confederates lay in carrying to excess the sentiment of loyalty to the State,] which is founded in virtue. Their constancy embittered the contest. Their cause deserved to fail; but their sufferings are entitled to respect. Prejudice has blackened their name; but history will speak of them as they were, with their failings and their virtues."—James L. Pettigeu. "We have, we can have, no barbarian memory of wrongs, for which brave men have made the last expiation to the brave."—Eufus Choate. "And the men who, for conscience' sake, fought against their government at Gettysbnrg, ought easily to be forgiven by the sons of men who, for conscience' sake, fought against their government at Lexington and Bunker Hill."—William 3?. Baktlett. chapter{Section 4LEAVES FROM A LAWYER'S LIFE AFLOAT AND ASHORE. CHAPTER I. Blockades—Steam Navies—The Southern Blockade—Our Blockading Squadrons—Compte de Paris— The Steamer Iroquoia in Chase of the E. E. Lee. Blockades are of two kinds—military and commercial. Military blockades have been practiced from the earliest times; they are merely the naval equivalent of sieges by land— having for their object the capture of the ports invested. Commercial blockades have for their principal object the crippling of the enemy by stopping his imports, and by isolating him from the commercial world. So long as commerce was held in contempt, as it was in all the great monarchies...