The Trent Affair, Vol. 16
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Excerpt from The Trent Affair, Vol. 16: An Historical Retrospect As, doubtless, all of us have had frequent occasion to observe, there are few occurrences which in their relative connection with other occurrences or with things at large do not assume with the lapse of time aspects strangely different. The passage of fifty years is a great dissolvent and clarifier. The international incident, still memorable, known as the affair of the Trent and the seizure by Captain Charles Wilkes, then commanding the San Jacinto, of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the two Confederate envoys, occurred on the 8 th of November, and the fiftieth recurrence of that date accordingly came about yesterday. One living in those times who had then attained even a degree of maturity, that is, any man or woman now over sixty-five years of age, cannot but retain, if American, a distinct recollection of the incident, and a general memory at least of the excitement caused by it, and the intense interest with which every stage of its development was awaited. For such, however, it is necessary also to bear in mind that the present great majority, those of the younger generations, do not have this vivid personal recollection of the events of that memorable period, and there are many whose ideas concerning the affair of the Trent are vague and, to say the least, unsettled. For instance, as an illustration in point let me relate an incident told me by my friend Mr. Moorfield Storey. Among the guests on one occasion at Mr. Storey´s house was an intelligent young fellow, either a recent Harvard graduate or, possibly, in one of the older classes. He was also in a general way not ill informed, as men of that age go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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