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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The National crisis. the seizure of the revenue cutters — meeting of Working Menin Boston — affairs in Pensacola — important report, &c. The seizure of the revenue cutters. Secretary Dix has made a report to Congress about the late seizure of the U. S. revenue cutters at New Orleans. The following is an extract: On the 18th of January, ult., three days after taking charge of this Department, I decided to dispatch a special agent to New Orleans and Mobile, to save, if possible, the revenue cutters on those stations. Mr. Wm. Hemphill Jones, chief Clerk in the First Comptroller's office, was selected for the purpose, and on the 19th he left this city with instructions to provision the vessels, and give the commanding officers verbal orders to take them to New York. This mode of conveying the directions to them was chosen because no confidence was felt that the mails, or the telegraph, could be relied on as a safe medium of communication. That the authority of M<