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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 1: (search)
Papers, to the Federalist, and to the late very able work of Dr. Bledsoe, entitled Is Davis a Traitor? It will be sufficient for the purpose which I have in view—that of giving the reader a general outline of the course of reasoning, by which Southern men justify their conduct in the late war—to state the leading features of the compact of government which was dissolved, and a few of its historical surroundings, about which there can be no dispute. The close of the War of Independence of 1776 found the thirteen original Colonies, which had waged that war, sovereign and independent States. They had, for the purpose of carrying on that war, formed a league, or confederation, and the articles of this league were still obligatory upon them. Under these articles, a Federal Government had been established, charged with a few specific powers, such as conducting the foreign affairs of the Confederacy, the regulation of commerce, &c. At the formation of this Government, it was intended t
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 29: (search)
edents for her career, drawn from the history of the war of 1776. Before I read my commission on the quarter-deck of the ader a few of the incidents of the war of the Revolution of 1776, to show how inconsistent our Northern brethren have been, ly, not only what was done by their ancestors in the war of 1776, but what was attempted to be done by Mr. Gideon Welles, thdesign to cite will be drawn from the history of the war of 1776; it will be necessary, therefore to run a brief parallel be of the Potomac. One of the earliest cruises of the war of 1776, was made by Captain, afterward Commodore, John Paul Jones.command of a vessel called the Providence, in the summer of 1776, made a foray among the British fishermen, on the Banks of d, this forbearing policy was abandoned, and the summer of 1776 let loose the nautical enterprise of the country upon Briti of capture, in a war far more justifiable, than the war of 1776, since it was waged by sovereign States, in defence of thei
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 30: (search)
ain have recourse to Fenimore Cooper. The Reprisal was the first American man-of-war, that ever showed herself in the other hemisphere. She sailed from home not long after the Declaration of Independence, and appeared in France, in the autumn of 1776, bringing in with her several prizes, and having Dr. Franklin on board as a passenger. It is well known that Silas Deane followed Dr. Franklin soon afterward, and it was not long before these two Commissioners, who were sent to Europe, to look af what their business was in France, and how they performed it. In order, says this writer, to complete the account of the proceedings of the American Commissioners in Paris, so far as they were connected with naval movements during the years 1776 and 1777, it is necessary to come next to the affair of Captain Conyngham, which, owing to some marked circumstances, made more noise than the cruises of the Reprisal and Lexington, though the first exploits of the latter were anterior as to time,