{"id":13359,"date":"2021-12-16T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:12:09","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-347\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar over &#8221; the arrest of &#8216;Mason&#8217; and &#8216;Slidel&#8217;.&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY 16<\/p>\n<p>Delightful day. Some excitement in the City at the news from England in relation to the arrest of &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mason<\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Slidel<\/span>.&#8221; Some predict a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">war<\/span> with her. But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I<\/span> do not. It is only giving her a dose of her own Medicine. The Law of Nations is also on our side, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">She<\/span> has always insisted upon the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">right<\/span> of Search for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">herself<\/span>. I have spent the evening at home making Willie a picture frame. Matty Hartly spent the evening here. Mr H called about 9 for her. Chas &amp; Sallie also called. Put a night latch on the Hall Door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">______<\/p>\n<p>The three diary manuscript volumes, <em>Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865,<\/em> are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/ammem\/tafthtml\/tafthome.html\">The Library of \u00a0 Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY 16 Delightful day. Some excitement in the City at the news from England in relation to the arrest of &#8220;Mason&#8221; and &#8220;Slidel.&#8221; Some predict a war with her. But I do not. It is only giving her a dose of her own Medicine. The Law of Nations is also on our side, and She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}