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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e their own elegant and expressive phraseology, and it will render the act only so much the more admirable in their estimation. It gave the French Republic a pretext, which it had long sought, of seizing Genoa and extinguishing an independence which had existed for six hundred years. It played, in fact, directly into the hands of France. Genoa became a part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and remains such to this day; and for the utter extinction of her ancient nationality she is indebted to the piratical propensities of her friends, the English. England, however, was not, after all, so smart, as the Yankees. She never returned the frigate, and would make no apology. She was a bold and truculent pirate in those days, not a speaking one. She would never have thought of sinking the Modeste by accident! That was a device of Admiral David Porter. We wonder if he ever read his father's "Journal" and the account he gives of the attack made upon, him in the neutral harbor of Valparaiso!