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The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The great battle of Chickamauga. (search)
The rams. --"I will swear to anything in reason." says poor Peter Peebles, in the novel of Red Gauntlet. "Odd a plea is a lost plea if it comes to my oath." The invitations given by the English Foreign Secretary to all whom it may concern to come forward and perjure themselves, in the matter of the so-called Confederate steamers, seems to have had the desired effect. The vessels are to be detained, and Seward is to be gratified, at the small expense of damnation to the affidavit maker's soul, who obviously has sworn to what neither is the truth, nor, were it true, could be proved to be so.--in this matter Lord Russell has acted the part of the prosecuting attorney, and not that of the Judge. He pointed out to his chests, Adams and the Exeter Hall junta, the only means by which they could legally succeed in arresting the steamers and delaying their departure. Without his invaluable aid the probability is that they would have remained in ignorance of them. Why are the Yank