... at a time like this, to persist in wrong. This were to strike down at a blow all international law and comity, and throw the whole world into anarchy. Suppose we hold on to Messrs. Mason and Slidell , we must not, cannot treat them as traitors, after arresting them in the manner we did. Well, then, we shall send then to Fort Lafayette, as we have done others equally guilty. What then ? Why, we ...