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d be a fault on their own side. Captain Wilkes has presented to this Government his reasons for releasing the Trent. "I forbore to seize her," he says, in consequents of my being so reduced in officers and crew, and this derangement would cause innocent persons to suffer, there being a large number of passengers who would have been put to great loss and inconvenience, as well as disappointment from the interruption it would have caused them, in not being able to join the steamer from St. Thomas to Europe. I, therefore, concluded to sacrifice the interest of my officers and crew in the prize, and suffered her to proceed, after the detention necessary to effect the transfer of those Commissioners, considering I had obtained the important and I had in view and which affected the interest of our country, and interrupted the action of that of the Confederates. I shall consider first how these reasons ought to affect the action of this Government, and secondly how they ought to b
d be a fault on their own side. Captain Wilkes has presented to this Government his reasons for releasing the Trent. "I forbore to seize her," he says, in consequents of my being so reduced in officers and crew, and this derangement would cause innocent persons to suffer, there being a large number of passengers who would have been put to great loss and inconvenience, as well as disappointment from the interruption it would have caused them, in not being able to join the steamer from St. Thomas to Europe. I, therefore, concluded to sacrifice the interest of my officers and crew in the prize, and suffered her to proceed, after the detention necessary to effect the transfer of those Commissioners, considering I had obtained the important and I had in view and which affected the interest of our country, and interrupted the action of that of the Confederates. I shall consider first how these reasons ought to affect the action of this Government, and secondly how they ought to b