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Excerpt from The Alabama Arbitration Soon after the outbreak of hostilities in 1861 in the United States between the Northern and the Southern States over the Slavery question, the Confederate States, in order to injure the power of the Union States by striking and destroying the mercantile marine of the latter, sought with great energy, tenacity and skill to create a navy sufficiently strong to force the Union maritime commerce to seek the shelter of a neutral flag. And in this course their hasty recognition as belligerents by England helped them very much. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.