Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-01

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"Yes., said Mr.. Seward, 'therJs Mr.. 2
Webster. Please tell Mr. Welles that
the State Department will place him
In charge of the work
1T was necessary" continued Mr..
Webster, that Mason and Slidell, who
were incarcerated in Fort Warren, In
Boston harbor. should be transferred
secretly because public opinion was
running so high against them in Bos-
ton and elsewhere that 1t might not
have been safe to take them through
the streets of Boston. So we COM
municated with Lord Lyons, the Brit
ish minister. Offering to deliver the two
prisoners to any British vessel and at
any place he might designate After
some consultation he informed us thar
a British vessel would be anchored or
the harbor Of Provfncetown, Mass
ready at any time to receive th- TWO
commissioners.
1--WE engaged n tug at Boston, which
was to await us at Fort Warren, and
then steam across Massachusetts, bay
to Provincetown. When we reached
Fort Warren and gave our instructions
to the commanding officer. he sum-
moned Mason and Slidell. Mason was a
great user of tobacco, and the evil
dences of 1t wore plentiful upon his
chin and his linen. for he was not al
ways discreet in his expectoration Ho
was amply ticlSled to death to get out
of Fort Warren, and to be taken to
Europe to meet his family.
But Slidell. who realized that as long
as the North held him prisoned. tho
chances of British Intervention In favor
OF the Confederacy were not hopeless
declared that he wouldn't leave the
fort.
"'You have put me into this place
In soil farn1 1.-.
mo here
"'Mr. Slldell.' retorted tho command
er of the fort, you were received here
by orders of the United States govern
ment and now your release has been
ordered by the same authority II you
won't go willingly, 1 shall have to call
body of soldiers to put you out
"Slidell still protesting that he would
not bulge of his own accord, a file of
soldiers were ordered up, and they
were ali ready TO take the recalcItrant
commissioner, feet first, and deposit
him on the tug. whom Slidell thought
that would be too undignified, and 80
reluctantly went aboard.
"a heavy sea was on, and that little
tug rolled In Massachusetts bay like
a cockolshell. The two commissioners
were frightfully seasick, and Mr.. Slidell,
amid his gToans. muttered dire impre-
cations upon the United States govern
ment
"At last we sighted the British man
of-war. signalled to her, and found
that 1t was going to be almost irnpossi-
BILE to persuade Mr.. Slidell to leave tho
tug. He was a pitiable object, with
his sea-sickness. his anger. and his
heavy sense OF dignity, which had been
severely shocked. But we told him that
IL he did not leave the tug willingly. we
should have tho sailors put him upon
the British launch. Then MIR. Mason
who despite his sca-sckness. was quite
happy over his immediate release. came
to our air. Come, SlIdell. don't be a
baby he cried. And so this former
Senator from Louisiana, with many of
the evidences of sea-sickness still upon
him, stepped tottcringly into the
launch, and in this rather ludIcrous
manner. the two commissioners, over
whom so much fuss had been made, In
volving danger of war with Great Brit
ain, departed from the United States"