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Raphael Semmes. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
R. SEMMES
HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CROL:
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
TO THE CAPTAIN—
R.S
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
COMMANDER H. SEMMES,
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CASE OF THE LAFAYETTE
CASE OF THE SCHOONER CRENSHAW
CASE OF THE LAURETTA
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CASE OF THE GOLDEN RULE
CASE OF THE PALMETTO
CHAPTER XXV
CASE OF THE OLIVE JANE
CASE OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE
CASE OF THE SHIP JOHN S. PARKS
CHAPTER XXVI
CASE OF THE CHARLES HILL
CASE OF THE NORA
CAPTAIN F. PERCIVAL
CASE OF THE LOUISA HATCH
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CASE OF THE GILDERSLIENE
CASE OF THE JABEZ SNOW
CASE OF THE BARQUE AMAZONIAN
CASE OF THE CONRAD
FURTHER EXAMINATION OF CASE OF CONRAD
CHAPTER XXX
CASE OF THE SHIP EXPRESS
CHAPTER XXXI
CASE OF THE BARQUE AMANDA
CHAPTER XXXII
CASE OF THE WINGED RACER
CASE OF THE CONTEST
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CASE OF THE ROCKINGHAM
CHAPTER XXXVI
"OFFICERS AND SEAMEN OF THE ALABAMA:"
APPENDIX
CAPTURES OF THE SUMTER
CAPTURES OF THE ALABAMA
COURSE OF THE SUMTER. FROM NEW ORLEANS, 30TH JUNE, 1861, TO GIBRALTAR, 18TH JANUARY, 1862
COURSE OF THE ALABAMA
THE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE HATTERAS
THE ALABAMA IN TABLE BAY
CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE TUSCALOOSA
MEASUREMENTS OF THE ALABAMA
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Raphael Semmes
From the Private Journals and Other Papers of Commander R. Semmes, C.S.N., and Other Officers
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Sir—I have the honour to inform your Excellency of my arrival at the Port of Cienfuegos with seven prizes of war. These vessels are the brigantines Cuba, Machias, Ben Dunning, Albert Adams and Naiad; and barques West Wind and Louisa Kilham, property of citizens of the United States, which States, as your Excellency is aware, are waging an unjust and aggressive war upon the Confederate States, which I have the honour, with this ship under my command, to represent. I have sought a port of Cuba with these prizes, with the expectation that Spain will extend to cruisers of the Confederate States the same friendly reception that in similar circumstances she would extend to the cruisers of the enemy; in other words, that she will permit me to leave the captured vessels within her jurisdiction until they can be adjudicated by a Court of Admiralty of the Confederate States. As a people maintaining a Government de facto, and not only holding the enemy in check, but gaining advantages over him, we are entitled to all the rights of belligerents, and I confidently rely upon the friendly disposition of Spain, who is our near neighbour in the most important of her colonial possessions, to receive us with equal and even-handed justice, if not with the sympathy which our unity of interest and policy, with regard to an important social and industrial institution, are so well calculated to inspire. A rule which would exclude our prizes from her ports during the war, although it should be applied in terms equally to the enemy, would not, I respectfully suggest, be an equitable or just rule. The basis of such a rule, as, indeed, of all the conduct of a neutral during war, is equal and impartial justice to all the belligerents; and this should be a substantial and practical justice, and not exist in delusive or deceptive terms merely. Now, a little reflection will, I think, show your Excellency that the rule in question cannot be applied in the present war without operating with great injustice to the Confederate States. It is well known to your Excellency that the United States being a manufacturing and commercial people, whilst the Confederate States have been thus far almost wholly an agricultural and planting people, the former had within their limits and control almost the whole naval force of the old Government, and that they have seized and appropriated this force to themselves, regardless of the just claims of the Confederates States to a portion, and a large portion of it, as tax-payers out of whose contributions it was created. The United States are thus enabled to blockade all the important ports of the Confederate States. In this condition of things, observe the practical working of the rule which I am discussing.
It must be admitted that we have equal belligerent rights with the enemy.
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