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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--ten dollars reward. (search)
The seizure of Messrs. Mason and Seidell. --We believe we hazard nothing in saying that the capture of our envoys upon the high seas, in a British vessel, and their removal therefrom, was the most extraordinary outrage ever perpetrated in modern times.--We have run over every case which comes up in our memory, but we can recall nothing in the least resembling it. The whole world is acquainted with the circumstances attending the death of the Duke d'enghien at the beginning of the present but we know what she would have done sixty years ago, when William Pitt the younger was Prime Minister of England, and Nelson was "Britannia's God of War." In the present instance, not only the general law of neutrality, but a positive treaty has been palpably violated. By the extradition treaty, the contracting parties stipulate in positive terms that no person charged with a political offence shall be given up. The offence of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, if offence i be, is wholly political.
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The gallant dead. (search)
Sangster's Cross Roads, and a force at Wolf Run Shoals. Encouraging News from Europe. The news from Europe brought by the last steamer to the Government here continues to be of the most encouraging nature. The rebel agents, in both England and France, it is said, have written to the rebel authorities that there was little hope of accomplishing anything like a recognition from either of these Governments. It was on the receipt of this intelligence that Davis dispatched Slidell and Mason, with extraordinary powers, to make treaties, &c., in the hope that their sinking fortunes might be saved. Affairs on the Lower Potomac. Gen. Sickles, accompanied by one of the special army correspondents of the has made several balloon ascensions in Mary land, opposite Shipping Point and Aquia Creek, resulting in valuable discoveries as to the positions and strength of the rebels. A history of these balloon reconnaissances will be furnished when the publication will not be of in