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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Special notice (search)
A case (not) parallel.
--Ion, the correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, brings up the case of Henry Laurens, of South Carolina, who was captured in 1779 by a British frigate, while proceeding to Holland on a mission from the Congress.
The cases are not parallel.
Laurens was captured in an American ship, the ship itself being therefore an enemy's ship, and persons on board of it standing in exactly the same relation to the Government of the captors, that they would have stood had they been taken on land in an enemy's country.
Nobody denies that Wilke would have been justifiable in taking Messrs Mason and Slidell, had he found them of board a Confederate vessel.
It is said that the dispatches, papers, and drafts of our Commissioners were put in the British mail-bag before the capture, and have thus gone safe to Europe.
Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately the