...tort restitution or amendment from him. He cannot brook the deprivation of his gratifications either of his malice or his selfishness. Therefore when the Yankee Government gave up Messrs. Mason and Slidell --whose fates it had prefigured and gloated over with a brutal satisfaction like that enjoyed by the Cyclop over the victims in his cave — it gave them up with smothered wrath and in ward promis...