[169] An effort was made to carry out this theory in the case of the crew of the privateer Savannah; but the jury failed to agree, and the attempt was not afterward renewed, privateersmen being exchanged like other prisoners of war.
[170] Mr. Welles declares that Seward at first opposed the surrender; but Mr. Chittenden asserts that he knows that Mr. Seward's first opinion coincided with his later action; see Mr. Welles's Lincoln and Seward, and Chittenden's Recollections, 148.
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Abolitionists,
denounced by Illinois legislature, i. [55];
disapprove emancipation with compensation, [80];