{"id":13537,"date":"2022-01-05T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:16:01","slug":"mason-and-slidell-are-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/mason-and-slidell-are-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Abby Woolsey to her volunteer sisters on the release and issues related to Mason and Slidell."},"content":{"rendered":"<address><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/address>\n<p><em>My dear Girls:<\/em> The news of Mason and Slidell\u2019s release has arrived since you wrote. It was generally known here about 11 A. M. Saturday. I am quite satisfied with the release and with the grounds of it. In making the claim, England runs counter to all her preceding history in the matter of maritime laws. In holding the men, we should contradict our own previous course. Is it not far better to put <em>England<\/em> in the wrong, by yielding to her claim and so negatively securing her assent to what America has so long contended for\u2013the rights of neutrals? As the Washington Intelligencer said, Mason and Slidell are for a day, Maritime Law is for all nations and all time. For my part, I think our position more assured, more dignified, more honorable to us since the surrender than ever before. Of course it will not satisfy England. Their peremptory demand, and Lord Lyons\u2019 laconic acceptance, are in contrast with Mr. Seward\u2019s wordy, suave, argumentative letters. They have got in part what they asked\u2013possession of the men; they have not got what they asked\u2013an apology for the \u201cinsult to their flag\u201d and the violation of rights of asylum. The Manchester Guardian even says plainly that \u201cwhether Mason and Slidell are returned or not, war preparation on the part of England must go on, the day being not far distant when the Southern Confederacy must be recognized, and England must be prepared to support her policy.\u201d Mr. Seward, too, you know, says very plainly that recognition of the South would instantly be the signal of war between ourselves and all the recognizing powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My dear Girls: The news of Mason and Slidell\u2019s release has arrived since you wrote. It was generally known here about 11 A. M. Saturday. I am quite satisfied with the release and with the grounds of it. In making the claim, England runs counter to all her preceding history in the matter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/woolsey_abby_howland2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}