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Charles Wilkes (search for this): chapter 7
s, by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the Captain Charles Wilkes. United States frigate San Jacinto, ane very much outraged by the proceedings of Captain Wilkes in taking them out of the Trent, though heizure of their persons, and laid it before Captain Wilkes, not with the expectation that it would ha doubt would have been very humiliating to Captain Wilkes, but that was not to be considered. A niable to arrest; but to prove him to be so Captain Wilkes should have taken the Trent into a FederalGideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Captain Charles Wilkes, Commanding U. S. S. San Jacinto, Bostited States be requested to present to Captain Charles Wilkes a gold medal with suitable emblems andation to make in relation to the action of Captain Wilkes. This was not generous conduct in a greatches contraband of war? Second--Might Captain Wilkes lawfully stop and search the Trent for theorrect, he does not refer to the fact that Captain Wilkes constituted himself a Court of Admiralty u[23 more...]
Charles F. Williams (search for this): chapter 7
im, and these gentlemen at once went into the boat. During this scene many of the passengers became highly excited, and gave vent to the strongest expressions of indignation, seeming to indicate a. purpose of resistance on their part, when the squad, armed with bayonets fixed, made a sensible advance of one or two paces with their arms at the charge. It must be added here (omitted in the course of the narrative) that before the party left the upper deck, an officer of the Trent, named Williams, in the naval uniform of Great Britain, and known to the passengers as having charge of the mails and accompanying them to England, said to the lieutenant that, as the only person present directly representing his Government, he felt called upon in language as strong and emphatic as he could express to denounce the whole proceeding as a piratical act. Mr. Slidell and Mr. Mason, together with Mr. McFarland, against whom force in like manner wag used, were taken to the San Jacinto as soon
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