Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts On Maritime Rights : Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 9, 1862
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And here the testimony is complete. If you will kindly follow me, you shall see it from the beginning in the public life of our country, and in the authentic records of our Government. This British pretension aroused and startled the Administration of Washington, and the pen of IVIr. Jeflerson,his Secretary of State, was enlisted against it. In a letter to Thomas Pinckney, our minister at London, dated June 11, 1792, he said: "The simplest rule will be that the vessel beiii!; Ameri- can shall b...e evidence that the seamen on board her are such." In another letter to the same minister, dated October 12, 1792, he calls attention to a case of special outrage, as follows: " I inclose you a copy of a letter from Messrs. Blow and Melliaddo, merchants of Virfjinia, complainin« of the fnking away of their sailors on the coast of Africa by the com- mander of a British armed vessel. So many instances of lliis kind have liappencd that it is quite necessary that their Government should explain themselves on the subject, and be led to disavow and punish such conduct." — State Papers, vol.
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