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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--ten dollars reward. (search)
ired into her, when she struck her colors. The men were taken out of her and several of them hung. This outrage produced the most violent excitement in the United States. The British Government disavowed the act and promised to remove Admiral Berkley, who had ordered it, and Captain Humphreys, of the Leopard, who had perpetrated it. This was done, after a fashion, that is to say, Humphreys was promoted and sent somewhere else, and Berkley was removed to a more honorable station. But theBerkley was removed to a more honorable station. But the insult offered to the flag still rankled in the bosom of the nation, and laid the foundation of the war, which other aggressions, continued from year to year, brought about five years after. Neither of these cases, however, exactly resembles this. The acts in question concerned the neutrality of two feeble nations, as the United States and Baden then were, and they were the acts of the two most formidable powers (the one on land the other on sea) then in existence. Now Great Britain con