...nt will ever make reparation, apology, or atonement, when the demand for either is not backed by the power to enforce it. Does any man with sense enough to keep out of the fire believe that Mason and Slidell would have been surrendered to a demand from Mexico or Portugal, or Denmark? Would the tiger voluntarily surrender the fawn?--or the hyena his exhumed food?--or the anaconda the victim within his f...