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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Macfarland or search for Macfarland in all documents.
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Report of Capt. Wilkes.why he did not seize the Trent.
The following is the report of Capt. Wilkes, assigning his reasons for the arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell:
U. S. Steamer San Jacinto, At Sea, Nov. 16. Sir:
--In my dispatch by Commander Taylor I confined myself to the reports of the movement of this ship, and the facts connected with the capture of Messrs. Mason, Slidell, Eustis, and Macfarland, as I intended to write you particularly relative to the reasons which induced my action in making these prisoners.
When I heard at Cienfuegos, on the south side of Cuba, of these Commissioners having landed on the Island of Cuba, and that they were at Havana, and would depart in the English steamer of the 7th of November, I determined to intercept them, and carefully examined all the authorities on international law to which I had access, viz: Kent Wheaton, Vattel, besides various decisions of Sir William Scott, and other judges of the Admiralty Court of Great B
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The orders for the arrest of Mason and Slidell . (search)