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of confidential communication, for the purpose of scrutinizing the correspondence of a department of the Government with one of its special agents, in a matter relating exclusively to its own interests, the vessel might have been saved, and the State of Louisiana spared the reproach of consenting to an act which all civilized communities hold in merited detestation. It may be proper to add, in reference to the closing period of the foregoing dispatch, that, as the flag of the Union since 1777, when it was devised and adopted by the founders of the Republic, had never, until a recent day, been hauled down, except by honorable hands in manly conflict, no hesitation was felt in attempting to uphold it at any cost against an act of treachery, as the ensign of the public authority and the emblem of unnumbered vic- tories by land and sea. The revenue cutter Henry Dodge, at Galveston, Texas, was understood to be so much out of repair as to render it very questionable whether she cou