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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nder the laws of nations, should have been safe if she had not had a man aboard. The Yankee steamer Wachussett, which captured her, was one of those gunboats which participated in the fight at Drewry's Bluff in May, 1862. She was commanded by Captain Collins. The Florida was a 750-ton steamer (formerly the Orieto), under the command of Lieutenant J. Mannigault Morris, Confederate States Navy. The following is the Yankee account of the capture: The Florida arrived at Bahia, Bay of San Salvador, on the night of the 7th ultimo. Captain Collins having held a consultation with his officers, determined to sink the Florida in port. Accordingly, at about 3 o'clock, the cables were slipped and the Wachussett steered for the Florida, hitting her on the quarter, without doing her great injury. Captain Collins now called out to those on board the pirate to surrender or he would sink her. This demand was replied to by the First Lieutenant, that "under the circumstances he surrendere
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], A modern Anteus. (search)
We published on Saturday the Yankee account of the capture of the Florida in the bay of San Salvador. From that account, it is clear that the Yankees violated the neutrality of the harbor, for all the but five or six were on shore, which they would not have been had they not considered themselves protected from attack by the neutrality of the harbor. This capture is, therefore, either a flagrant outrage upon the Emperor of Brazil, or it has been captured at that potentate. We are both to improve treachery to him, we therefore choose to regard it as an outrage of the Yankees. When in 1814, a British squadron made an attack, upon and succeeded in capturing, the privateer General Armstrong, in a neutral port, the Government of that day entered a solemn protest against the as not only in itself a violation of international law, but as calculated to do infinite mischief in future by rendering it impossible for any nation to preserve her neutrality when two other nations we