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The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The decision in the case of the Alexander--Great Britain drifting into hostilities with the United States. (search)
sing the ship Alexandra was intended to be an affront to Yankeedom, and the correspondent thinks the verdict was a foregone conclusion months ago, and is precisely what Earl Russell and Lord Palmerston intended it should be. It was perfectly well understood and arranged what the ruling of the Court should be on every point likely to be raised and as perfectly understood what the verdict of the jury would be under such ruling. He also fears a private understanding between Napoleon and Mr. Slidell. The latter is too frequent a visitor and too cordially received at Fontainebleaux to bode any good for the United States. We take from the London Post a synopsis of the decision in the case of the Alexandra. The vessel was seized on the suspicion that she was intended for the Confederate service. The Post says: Nominally, the point left for the decision of the jury was whether the Crown or a firm of Liverpool merchants were the rightful owners of an unfinished ship; but, practi
solutely ignorant, and as to this we trust Mr. Seward's next volume will give us some light. It is a pretty comprehensive sort of a suggestion. The Secretary closes this remarkable document with a reason for declining to meddle with Poland which is "unique." It has reference to the rebellion, and evinces a consideration for our wayward sisters that is worthy of all praise. He really does not like to meddle with European politics in the absence of Mr. Davis, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Slidell, whom, as he long ago told M. Mercier, "he hoped some day to welcome back to the Senate." His language now is, "It would be still less wise to deviate from our traditional policy when a local, though we hope transitory insurrection, deprives our Government of the advice of one part of the American people, to which so grave a deviation from the established policy would be far from being indifferent !" This is almost as cruel blood letting as that in the pamphlet already referred to,