next morning gave up the chase, which had lasted sixty-four hours. The newspapers were filled with the praises of Hull and his good ship, and doggerel verse in songs and sonnets, like the following, abounded:
'Neath Hull's command, with a taught band, And naught beside to back her, Upon a day, as log-books say, A fleet bore down to thwack her. A fleet, you know, is odds or so Against a single ship, sirs, So ‘cross the tide her legs she tried, And gave the rogues the slip, sirs.
On Aug. 12 Captain Hull sailed from Boston and cruised eastward in search of British vessels.
He was anxious to find the Guerriere, thirty-eight guns, Capt. James Richard Dacres.
The British newspapers, sneering at the American navy, had spoken of the Constitution as a bundle of pine boards sailing under a bit of striped bunting.
They had also declared that a few broadsides from England's wooden walls would drive the paltry striped bunting from the ocean.
Hull was eager to pluck out the sting of t
should take care that the laws be faithfully executed, did unlawfully, and in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, issue an order in writing for the removal of Edwin M. Stanton from the office of Secretary for the Department of War, said Edwin M. Stanton having been theretofore duly appointed and commissioned, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, as such Secretary, and said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1867, and during the recess of said Senate, having suspended by his order Edwin M. Stanton from said office; and within twenty days after the first day of the next meeting of said Senate—that is to say, on the 12th day of December, in the year last aforesaid— having reported to said Senate such suspension, with the evidence and reasons for his action in the case, and the name of the person designated to perform the duties of such office temporarily until the ne
ster-General.
The provisional Confederate Congress held four sessions: First, from Feb. 4, 1861, to March 16, 1861; second, from April 29, 1861, to May 22, 1861; third, from July 20, 1861, to Aug. 22, 1861; fourth, from Nov. 18, 1861, to Feb. 17, 1862.
Under the permanent constitution, which provided for twenty-six Senators and 106 members of the House of Representatives, there were two congresses.
The first held four sessions:
First, from Feb. 18 to April 26, 1862; second, from Aug. 12 to Oct. 13, 1862; third, from Jan. 12 to May 8, 1863; fourth, from Dec. 7, 1863, to Feb. 18, 1864.
The second congress held two sessions: First, from May 2 to June 15, 1864; second, from Nov. 7, 1864, to March 18, 1865.
Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure th