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Letter from Conway Robinson to G.a Peidicaris {?} to {?}

The Vineyard near Washington aly Nov 20 {?} 1861

To Mr G.A. Peidicaris Trenton New Jersey

Dear Sir

Since the receipt of your letter of the 10- {?} of Oct.- it has been often in my mind, but different causes have delayed a response to it. I proceed now to send you something by way of answer. The subject of confiscation attracted much attention during the {existence?}, and for some time after the close, of the war which ter =minated in the separation from Great Britian of the Colonies that {Le?} came the United States of America. In the elaborate {din confusion?} before the supreme court of the United States in 1796 in the case of {Ware?} vs Hylton {no?} 1 Dall. 222. it was contended that the legislature of Virginia had no night to confiscate any British property because Vir =ginia was part of the dismember empire of Great Britain, and the plaintiff and defendants were all of them members of the British nation when the debt was contracted and therefore that the laws of independent nations did not apply to the case. But this view was not- adopted. Judge Chase said: (p 225)