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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
son and Slidell on board a British vessel, Captain Wilkes having acted without any instructions fromhe Trent. He showed his instructions from Captain Wilkes to search for the four prisoners named in ely flagrant act of violence on the part of Capt. Wilkes, as might well be inferred from the incomplimple, legal, and belligerent proceeding of Capt. Wilkes to arrest and capture a neutral vessel engaispatches contraband of war. 2d. Might Captain Wilkes lawfully stop and search the Trent for ther persons who were taken from the Trent by Captain Wilkes, and their dispatches, were contraband of war. The second inquiry is, whether Captain Wilkes had a right, by the law of nations, to detaicaptor. The third question is, whether Capt. Wilkes exercised the right of search in a lawful acted contraband on board of the Trent, had Captain Wilkes a right to capture the same? Such a cnly the fifth question remains, namely: Did Capt. Wilkes exercise the right of capturing the contrab[3 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
act of his own. In the present case, Captain Wilkes, after capturing the contraband persons anh would be a fault on their own side. Captain Wilkes has presented to this Government his reasosatisfactory to this Government, so far as Captain Wilkes is concerned; it could not desire that thely incongruous, did operate in the mind of Captain Wilkes and determined him to release the Trent. rtheless, the question now is, not whether Captain Wilkes is justified to his Government in what he ly upon the first ground assigned for it by Capt. Wilkes, namely, a want of sufficient force to sended. For the second reason assigned by Captain Wilkes for releasing the Trent differs from the f At best, therefore, it must be held that Captain Wilkes, as he explains himself, acted from combinpon this point which first occurs is, that Captain Wilkes's explanations were not made to the authorstant, concerning the recent proceedings of Capt. Wilkes, in arresting certain persons on board of t[2 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
act of his own. In the present case, Captain Wilkes, after capturing the contraband persons anh would be a fault on their own side. Captain Wilkes has presented to this Government his reasosatisfactory to this Government, so far as Captain Wilkes is concerned; it could not desire that thely incongruous, did operate in the mind of Captain Wilkes and determined him to release the Trent. ly upon the first ground assigned for it by Capt. Wilkes, namely, a want of sufficient force to sended. For the second reason assigned by Captain Wilkes for releasing the Trent differs from the f At best, therefore, it must be held that Captain Wilkes, as he explains himself, acted from combinow ought we to expect these explanations by Capt. Wilkes of his reasons for leaving the capture incopon this point which first occurs is, that Captain Wilkes's explanations were not made to the authorstant, concerning the recent proceedings of Capt. Wilkes, in arresting certain persons on board of t[2 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
ces that Seward and Lyons have had a consultation on the release of Mason and Slidell.Seward has surrendered these gentlemen, but the terms of the surrender does not come up to the demands of the ultimatum. A part of the Yankee's bargain is that Wilkes is not to be censured, no way. This part of the bargain, however, does nor suit the British demand, and consequently the matter is not entirely satisfactory. The mere giving up of Mason and Slidell does not settle the matter, though it appears tbe remembered that France (after the arguments of General Cass, when he was the United States Minister at Paris,) has sided with our Government, and opposed that of England on the right of search question. She consequently regards the act of Captain Wilkes as unwarranted by international law, but does not, of course, officially express her opinion. France, like England, is too ready to regard the present war for the Union as a commercial struggle between the tariff men of the North and the