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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
ag, they were in fact English or of one of the nations which had conceded the right of capture. She disclaimed the right to seize the vessel if found to be American, although engaged in the traffic, and limited the asserted right to one of mere inquiry for the purpose of verifying nationality. This qualified right of search, or of inquiry,as he preferred to call it, Sumner maintained in two elaborate articles, both filling five and a half columns, and printed in the Boston Advertiser. Jan. 4 and Feb. 10, 1842. Sumner's first article was republished in the National Intelligencer, Feb. 5. They reply at length to the positions taken by Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister, in his correspondence with the British Foreign Secretary. The second is a rejoinder to an article of Mr. Perkins, of Salem, who, in a communication to the same newspaper, had reviewed Sumner's first article. The article of Mr. Perkins was published in the Advertiser, Jan. 21. Mr. Webster, in his subsequ
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
loh. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862. Military governor of Memphis, Tenn., and superintendent of military railroads. General Grant's Chief of staff in the Vicksburg campaign. Chief of staff of Generals William T. Sherman and George H. Thomas, being present with the latter at the battle of Nashville. Brevet Maj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Resigned, Nov. 6, 1865. Died at Chicago, Ill., Mar. 12, 1876. Weld, Stephen Minot. Born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., Jan. 4, 1842. Volunteer Aide-de-Camp on staff of General Wright and took part in expedition which captured Port Royal, S. C., and Hilton Head. Second Lieutenant, 18th Mass. Infantry, Jan. 24, 1862. Aide-de-Camp of the staff of General Fitz-John Porter; with the Army of the Potomac on the march to Centreville, Va., and in the Peninsular campaign; prisoner at Gaines's Mill; sent to Libby Prison and remained there six weeks; exchanged and joined General Porter at Harrison's Landing; engaged in Pope's a