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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Romance of war. (search)
ed a gun to be fired across the bows of the British steamer Trent, brought her to, and relieved her of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and their Secretaries, is now about 56 years of age. Consequently, as Jack Bunsby would say, he was once younger than hfe. But the young sailor had a rival in the son of a respectable tallow chandler, well to do, called Sildell; and young Slidell feeling considerably cut up by being cut out, refused to accept "the mitten," but not having spunk enough to throw down efused his consent to his daughter's marriage with the bold Chas. Wilkes, and insisted upon her giving her hand to young Slidell; when, after many protestatations, and the customary amount of tears and hysterics, she did, and became Mrs. John SlidelMrs. John Slidell. The bold Charlie Wilkes did not peak and pine, or let his melancholy feed on his weather-beaten cheeks, but went to sea and smothered his grief in attending to duty and sustaining the honor of his nation's flag, never seeing his "lady lass" agai