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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
serve in breaking the military power of the rebellion. Grant's effective work in the West was yet in reserve. No substantial victory had removed the depression which set in after the defeat at Bull Run; and the rebels, as well as their partisans in Europe, were full of high hope. The current of hostile British opinion was growing stronger against us during these continued reverses. Just at this time the Trent, a British mail and passenger steamer,—when in the Bahama Channel, bound from Havana to Nassau, two neutral ports,—and having among its passengers Mason and Slidell, Confederate envoys accredited to England and France respectively, who were proceeding on their missions with despatches and two secretaries, was boarded, November 8, by Captain Wilkes of the United States naval ship the San Jacinto, who, acting without instructions, took the four persons from the steamer, and leaving her to go on her way, brought them to the United States, where, by the order of our government,