Rule

of 1756, a rule of international law laid down by the English Courts in the War of 1756, to the effect that, where a European country has forbidden trade with its colonies in time of peace, it shall not open it to neutrals in time of war. In 1793 the English Prize Courts enforced this doctrine against American neutral carriers, the U. S. Government protesting. ‘Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.’ At a meeting of clergy, in which all denominations were supposed to be represented, held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, during the Presidential campaign of 1884 in the interest of the Republicans, Rev. R. B. Burchard described the Democrats as the party of ‘‘ Rum, Romanism and Rebellion.” This remark was unfortunate for the Republicans, and aided in a great measure to win the election for the Democrats. 186