“Now the Senator says: ‘Be careful how you lay these duties
on, because foreign countries will be offended at us.’ What
right has a foreign country to make any question about what
we choose to do with reference to these matters,--to say,
when we are in a state of war, and struggling for national
existence even, that we shall not impose duties which are
necessary to enable us to prosecute that war, because,
forsooth, it may affect the interests of foreign gentlemen?”