“We have not room to print the elaborate and convincing
argument of Senator Sumner on the seizure of the Rebel
emissaries, Mason and Slidell. Notwithstanding all that
has been said, it is fresh and original, and is a complete
vindication of the course of the Administration in promptly
restoring the seized persons to the British Government. It
cannot remove the animosities which the course of England
has kindled among Americans; but it cannot fail to heal
the galled sense of wounded national honor, because it
is shown by the argument that it has not been wounded at
all,--that the feeling of shame and dishonor which has
been experienced has been resting on imaginary and false
grounds.”