Service Afloat Or the Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter An
Service Afloat Or the Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter An
Semmes Raphael
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I will re fresh their memories on both these points, and first, as to the- latter. Mr. Welles attempted to do, nothing more nor less- than the Confederate States Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Mai- lory, did in the matter of building the Alabama that is to say, he endeavored to build some Alabamas in England him self, but failed ! This little episode in the history of the Fede ral Navy Department is curious, and worthy of being pre- 370 MEMOIRS OF SERVICE AFLOAT. 371 served as a practical commentar...y on so much of the des patches of Messrs. Seward and Adams, as relates to the foreign origin of my ship. The facts were published soon after their occurrence, and have not been, and cannot be de nied. They were given to the public by Mr. Laird, the gen- tleman who built the Alabama, and who was the party with whom the Federal Navy Department endeavored to treat. Mr. Laird was a member of the British Parliament, and having been abused, without stint, as an aider and abettor of "pirates, " by the Northern newspapers, as soon as it became known that he was the builder of the Alabama, lie made a speech in the House of Commons, in defence of himself, in the course of which he stated the fact I have charged, to wit: that Mr.
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