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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Comments of the Northern press. (search)
ustice and consistency would seem to demand this of us. Captain Wilkes has done the very thing, in principle, for which we went to war with England for doing. It is true that the right of search exists in a time of war, and veers in the belligerent; but this forcible seizure of political prisoners, when under the protection of a neutral flag, is unjustifiable, and ought to be repudiated by the United States Government. We speak of the case only as the telegraph represents it. The Albany (N. Y.) Argus and Alludes, an able Democratic paper, expressed these views. These prisoners were passengers on a British mail steamer, bound from Bermuda to England. An American man of-war overhauls the vessel, and demands the right of visit and search, and prepares to enforce it in the fashion of men-of-war — a shot ahead, a shot over, and, if those are not heeded, a shot through it. She, neutral vessel, is boarded by an armed force, and the two prisoners and their secretaries seized and