DECEMBER 27TH, 1861: Flag Officer Du Pont wrote regarding the "Trent Affair" as it had become known as: "I hope now that our politicians will begin to learn, that something is necessary to be a 'great universal Yankee nation etc' than politics and party.
"We should have armies and navies and have those appurtenances which enable a nation to defend itself and not be compelled to submit to humiliation [releasing Nason and Slidell] ...Thirty ships like the Wabash would have spared us this without firing a gun, with an ironclad frigate or two."
No Doubt He Was Upset Upon the Confederate Commissioners' Release. --Old B-Runner
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