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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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of the world, have associated his name in the minds of mankind with all that is truly great and good. The adhesion of such a man to the Southern cause will cause men abroad to reflect, and will exert infinitely more influence than would that of Scott. Europe is crowded with military men, far more eminent than Scott, who is scarcely known outside the limits of our own country, and even then only as a soldier; but wherever the sea rolls a wave, Maury is known and reverenced as a great light, and his name in the minds of mankind with all that is truly great and good. The adhesion of such a man to the Southern cause will cause men abroad to reflect, and will exert infinitely more influence than would that of Scott. Europe is crowded with military men, far more eminent than Scott, who is scarcely known outside the limits of our own country, and even then only as a soldier; but wherever the sea rolls a wave, Maury is known and reverenced as a great light, and a benefactor of his race.
n there had been organized and armed, Lincoln would have been a prisoner to-day. Our friends are not armed as they should be. There are, perhaps, seven or eight thousand men in Maryland armed more or less effectively. But the hope in Baltimore is, that the line of communication will be opened between Virginia and Baltimore, by the capture, at once, of Washington. This is the hope, and this is the expectation. It can be done. But now is the time to do it, before Hicks, Winter Davis and Gen. Scott can divert the Baltimore movement into an anti-Southern channel. By taking Washington, we are complete masters of the position. It secures Maryland and Baltimore, and thus secures Western Virginia, because Western Virginia is more influenced by Baltimore than by Richmond. It secures Delaware, because Delaware is influenced by Maryland in the same manner that Maryland is influenced by Virginia. It advances our base of operations beyond Baltimore on the high road to Philadelphia, whe
Washington Items. --The Washington papers furnish but little news of interest. We copy the following : The Government would fain to see all three months men changed into volunteers for the duration of the war. It is satisfied that the call for three months service is more likely to impede than to benefit the intended operations. A great pressure is brought to bear on Gen. Scott, to induce him to order an advance of troops into Virginia. Even members of the Cabinet have been exerting themselves to the same effect, but he will not move on Richmond until he is quite ready. Chevalier Wikoff and Major Williamson, of the United States Engineer Corps, have arrived here with dispatches from Gen.Sickles to the Secretary of War tendering the Excelsior Brigade to the Government. The commanders of the several regiments are anticipating an early movement, but in what direction they do not know. They have all been notified to hold themselves in readiness for instant ord
awrence S. Marye, to show cause why he should not be fined for his contempt in not attending as a witness in the case of the State against James Edward Carter. John Delworth was tried for an assault on Solomon Hecht, and the jury not agreeing on a verdict, were discharged, and defendant let off on payment of costs. A nolle prosequi was entered in two cases pending against Albert L. Riddle for passing counterfeit notes, he having escaped from jail last February. The appeal of Wm. Scott, a free person of color, from the judgment of the Recorder, ordering him 39 lashes for indecent and insulting language to a white person, was heard by the Court, and affirmed. David W Hughes was put on trial for allowing an unlawful assembly of negroes and gambling in his house, and the jury not agreeing, the case was continued until the June term. Mordecai Carnell was tried for allowing his slave to go at large; being found guilty, ordered that he pay a fine of $10 and costs, or
Porter, was continued to next Friday.--Wirt Roberts was fined $1 for driving a coal cart across the side-walk of 17th street. His agent stated that the driver of the cart had positive orders never to do so.--Alexander W. Jones was brought up to answer the charge of assault and battery upon Walter and Frederick Stultz, two small boys, whom he had trounced for striking his own little son. His Honor dismissed the case, with some admonitory remarks to the parents, complainant and defendant.--William Scott, a worthless free negro, was ordered to receive 20 lashes for beating Mary F. Tonget, a free negress.--Jacob Poe was fined $1 for allowing filthy matter to escape from his premises into the street.--The case of William, a slave, charged with unlawful huckstering, was dismissed by consent of the parties.--Miss Alice White was arraigned on the charge of throwing stones at Miss Martha Williams, and using language towards her which was altogether unbecoming a lady. It appeared that the accu
From Norfolk.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch] Norfolk, Sept. 5, 1861. A flag of truce was sent yesterday to Craney Island, from Fort Monroe, with Rt Rev. Bishop Verot, Rev. J. T. O'Neill, Rev.--Regnouf, and a young man named Gregory, a resident of Portsmouth, who has been a student in a Catholic institution in New York. They arrived here last evening. These clerical gentlemen of the Catholic Church are directly from the North, and, having a permit from Gen. Scott, came South without molestation. Bishop Verot is a Frenchman, as indicated by his name, and is distinguished for his high character and ability as a clergyman. He was about a year ago, appointed Bishop by the Pope, without the usual forms and ceremonies — a convention of Bishops, nomination, &c.--peculiar to the Church of Rome Rev. Mr. O'Neill has resided in Savannah, Ga., for many years. The Bishop and the two Priests took lodgings, on their arrival, at the Atlantic Hotel. The Bishop will, however,
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Candidates for Congress in North Carolina. (search)
e, the domicil of the owner at the time of the capture of the vessel determines its character as hostile or not. In the ease of the "Ocean," 5 C. Robinson, 91, Sir Wm. Scott decided that a British merchant settled in Holland, at the breaking out of hostilities, but taking early measures to remove, was entitled to restitution of hissure by a return to his native country, or even by his turning his back on the country in which he has resulted, on his way to another. To use the language of Sir Wm. Scott, it is an adventitious character gained by residence and which ceases by non-residence. It no longer adheres to the party from the moment he puts himself in m from a port of the enemy? It is believed that this negational could not be sustained, and that it would not be made. The same principle was captained by Sir W. Scott in the case of "Charlotta," Edwards, Ad. Rep., page 202. That was the case of an American ship on a voyage from Boston to St. Petersburg, putting into the Texe
airs in Scott county, Tenn. --The Knoxville Register, of the 11th inst., has been furnished with the following statement of facts in regard to the condition of that border county, which has been confirmed by what that paper has already heard from several reliable persons from the same vicinity: "The Lincolnites have taken possession of Scott county, by taking Southern men prisoners, stealing property, &c. The Union flag has been hoisted in the town of Huntsville, the county site of Scott. "The Kentuckians act in co operation with the tories of Tennessee. Some few weeks since, a party of Lincolnites stole five horses from Jas. Gilson, who lives near the border. Gilson saw them with their muskets and bayonets, in the act of stealing the horses. --A few nights since, also, two horses were stolen from Franklin Smith, in Powell's Valley. "All the Southern Rights men in Scott county, and in a large portion of Campbell, on the border, have been compelled to leave their
ispatches of the enemy is also a condemnation, even if carried by neutrals. The ambassador of the enemy may be stopped on his passage, but when he arrives in the neutral country he be comes a sort of middleman, and is entitled to certain privileges." Lord Stowell further declared — and the doctrine was acted upon by the whole Judge in a subsequent case, that of the Atlanta--"that the neutral ship, carrying dispatches was liable to be forfeited," and decided accordingly. And Sir William Scott, in one of his celebrated judgments in a case of this kind, says: "It appears to me on principle, that the fact of a vessel carrying the ambassadors or dispatches of a belligerent Power, whether knowingly or not, affords equal ground of forfeiture, if such vessel is seized by the opposing Power." That the foregoing is the true state of the law at the present time may be gathered from the fact that in Her Majesty's proclamation, dated 15th April, 1851, during the Russian war, the
the ships in question to have sailed from a neutral port. Does any man dispute the right of Great Britain to take cannon, or powder, or any other implement or munition of war, on board of her ships, and carry them to England? And if she has the right to take on board and to carry to England these articles, why has she not the right to take on board and carry ambassadors or commissioners, allowing them even, to be contraband of war? But they are not contraband, and the expression of Sir William Scott, ("you may arrest your enemy's ambassador on his passage,") which was torn from its context to support this proposition, is found, when restored to its connection, to establish no such doctrine. Nor does the case of the Marshal Belleisle, which has been so often cited, establish any such principle. That officer, appointed by Louis XV ambassador to a neutral court, was seized in Hanover, a part of the King of Great Britain's dominions, Great Britain being then at war with France. To