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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
and protection were given them, he believed that the Trent, bearing agents of that so-called belligerent, came under the operations of the law of the right of search. that no orders had been given to any one for the arrest of the four persons named, and that the United States had no purpose or thought of doing any thing which could affect in any way the sensibilities of the British nation. then, with the Queen's proclamation in mind, Mr. Seward spoke of the captives as pretended Ministers Plenipotentiary, under a pretended commission from Jefferson Davis, who had assumed to be President of the insurrectionary party in the United States, and so publicly avowed by him, and argued that it was fair to presume that they had carried papers known in law as dispatches. see note 2, page 156. he also stated that it was asserted by competent authority that such dispatches, having escaped the search, were actually carried to England, and delivered to the emissaries of the conspirators there
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], British war steamer in Charleston Harbor. (search)
o characterized it a year ago. The matter of the Racer appears to us unnecessary, while it opens an avenue of easy and possible deleterious information with the enemy off our harbor. The Confederate States have never been really so weak as to have to ask favors, cap in hand, of the Courts of Europe, as they have done. Our Commissioners should, we think, long since have been withdrawn, until it shall be signified that their official presence is desired, and then we should send Ministers Plenipotentiary. For our part, we recognize no proper ground, now or heretofore, for the Confederate States submitting to be put in an equivocal position by foreign nations. Strong facts will bring us foreign recognition and the lifting of the blockade. They will do it without our acquiescence in either snubbing in Europe, or slights here. Voluntary humiliation, upon whatever pretext of alleged convenience or supposed temporary benefit to ourselves, is, we judge, both unnecessary and unwise.