Letter
John Russell Young to Edwin Stevens, March 30, 1885
[Inclosure 2 in No. 696.]
Mr. Young to Mr. Stevens.
March 30, 1885.
Sir: I have the honor, as a farther acknowledgment of your dispatch No. 80, dated February 27, 1885, to say that I have carefully considered the facts therein recited. I agree with you that it would be a questionable right, under existing circumstances, for a vessel flying the American flag to carry contraband of war for either of the belligerent powers. Such an enterprise can only be undertaken at the risk of the owners of the vessel. No consuls should in my opinion give sanction to what would be regarded by either China or France as a violation of the obligations of neutrality.
I am, &c.,
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.