Further problems developed over possible diplomatic recognition when, in mid-August, Seward became aware that Britain was secretly negotiating with the Confederacy in order to obtain its agreement to abide by the Declaration of Paris.
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The US was not one of the initial signatories of the 1856 Declaration of Paris which outlawed privateering, and the privateers to sea before putting their main effort in the more effective commissioned raiders.
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The 1856 Declaration of Paris prohibited signatories from commissioning privateers against other signatories, protected neutral goods shipped to belligerents except for " contrabands of war, " and recognized blockades only if they were proved effective.
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There's definitely a distinction, I think, between the commerce raiders aiming to work within the Declaration of Paris and the piratical raiders hijacking ships and using them for other purposes ( an act of piracy in the traditional sense ).
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:: : The Privateer article includes the U . S . information that you mention, but it also reports : " European powers renounced privateering in the 1856 Declaration of Paris . " I think both these passages about the legal status of privateering are relevant to the article.
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Before the next case of blockade which can be described as pacific occurred came the Declaration of Paris ( April 15, 1856 ), requiring that blockades in order to be binding must be effective; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
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The British government protestmi that Admiral Coubert had not enough ships to render the blockade effective, and that it was therefore a violation of one of the articles of the Declaration of Paris of 1856; moreover, that the French government could only interfere with neutral vessels violating the blockade if there was a state of war.
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New rules of wartime commerce were set out in the Declaration of Paris : ( 1 ) privateering was illegal; ( 2 ) a neutral flag covered enemy goods except contraband; ( 3 ) neutral goods, except contraband, were not liable to capture under an enemy flag; ( 4 ) a blockade, to be legal, had to be effective.
