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Charles Sumner (search for this): chapter 173
Xxii. Mr. Sumner's able speech on the surrender of Mason and Slidell, the Rebel agents taken from the British mail steamer Trent, must receive a notice, however brief we may be compelled to make it. After the Senate had been purged by the flight of some of the Rebel members, the quiet retirement of others, and the expulsion of the rest, Mr. Sumner was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Little objection was made to the choice, for it was universally known that he wMr. Sumner was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Little objection was made to the choice, for it was universally known that he was not only better qualified to fill that place than any other member, but that his familiarity with the condition of Foreign Nations, his profound and minute knowledge of International Law, and his clear conception of the position of our government during the crisis, towards the other governments of the world,—all stamped him as the ablest man in the country. It was, therefore, a most fortunate occurrence that when the Trent difficulty came up, the whole question would be illuminated by his kn
Wilkes (search for this): chapter 173
ntic only by reaching Havana, where, under a neutral flag, they might get conveyance to Europe. They took passage in the Trent, bound from Havana to St. Thomas, from which island a regular line of British steamers ran to England. In Mr. Richard H. Dana's notes to Wheaton's Elements of International Law, he says of the envoys: Their character and destination were well known to the agent and master of the Trent, as well as the great interest felt by the Rebels that they should, and by the United States officials that they should not, reach their destination in safety. As passengers, they were now on the high seas. Within a few hours' sail of Nassau, the Trent was stopped and searched by the United States war vessel San Facinto, commanded by Captain Wilkes, who, without instructions, and entirely on his own responsibility, seized the two commissioners and their secretaries, and returned with them as prisoners to the United States, while the Trent was left to proceed on her voyage.
John Slidell (search for this): chapter 173
Xxii. Mr. Sumner's able speech on the surrender of Mason and Slidell, the Rebel agents taken from the British mail steamer Trent, must receive a notice, however brief we may be compelled to make it. After the Senate had been purged by the flight of some of the Rebel members, the quiet retirement of others, and the expulsion of the rest, Mr. Sumner was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Little objection was made to the choice, for it was universally known that he uestion would be illuminated by his knowledge, and enforced by his eloquence. Here a few words of explanation become necessary. Soon after the Rebellion began, its leaders appointed two of their ablest men, James M. Mason, of Virginia, and John Slidell, of Louisiana, Commissioners,—the first to England, and the second to France,—with instructions and despatches, the exact purport of which did not become known. But the object of their mission was to obtain a recognition of the Southern Conf
James M. Mason (search for this): chapter 173
Xxii. Mr. Sumner's able speech on the surrender of Mason and Slidell, the Rebel agents taken from the British mail steamer Trent, must receive a notice, however brief we may be compelled to make it. After the Senate had been purged by the flight of some of the Rebel members, the quiet retirement of others, and the expulsion of the rest, Mr. Sumner was appointed chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Little objection was made to the choice, for it was universally known that he difficulty came up, the whole question would be illuminated by his knowledge, and enforced by his eloquence. Here a few words of explanation become necessary. Soon after the Rebellion began, its leaders appointed two of their ablest men, James M. Mason, of Virginia, and John Slidell, of Louisiana, Commissioners,—the first to England, and the second to France,—with instructions and despatches, the exact purport of which did not become known. But the object of their mission was to obtain a
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