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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$5 Reward (search)
and arrogant despotism at Washington will pursue. If it were not as pusillanimous as it is base, no one could doubt that it would instantly and indignantly refuse the demand of the British Government.-- It has committed itself to the act of Commander Wilkes, not only through the intimations of Lincoln in his message, by the letter of Secretary Welles, emphatically approving the conduct of Wilkes, and regretting that he had not seized the vessel as well as the Commissioners, but by the act of imWilkes, and regretting that he had not seized the vessel as well as the Commissioners, but by the act of imprisoning and keeping in prison the Commissioners. If it now submits to the humiliating demand of Great Britain, it will sink itself to a state of abjectness which no nation has ever reached, and become a hissing bye-word and laughing stock through the whole world. If, on the other hand, it rejects the demand, it will be ground to power between the upper and nether milestones British squadrons will blockade every Northern post and open every. Southern one, bombard every Northern city, ravage
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of America. The mail steamer Trent, Captain Moir, was intercepted by the American steamer San Jacinto, commanded by Captain Wilkes, while on her passage from Havana to St. Thomas, and under force of arms, the accredited Commissioners to Europe fromitted at this port in the year 1854. It appears from the statements which we have received that the San Jacinto, Captain Wilkes, arrived at Havana on or about the 3d of November, from the coast of Africa, bound to New York. She coaled and sailethey would have committed this outrage if we had been a man-of-war, they replied, "certainly no;" and, secondly, that Captain Wilkes suntan order for Capt. Moir to go aboard his ship, and a second, for Captain Moir to move the Trent closer to the Sandetermined manner the restoration of Mason and Sildell to the traveling status and position which they enjoyed before Captain Wilkes took them on hand, as well as a disavowal of and government apology for the not of that officer from the San Jacinto