Wrote Dahlgren, who has serious apprehensions about Laird's
ironclad steamers, which troubled Du Pont, that I thought he might feel assured
they would not disturb him. Seward says Mr. Adams has made a vigorous protest,
and informed the British Government if the Rebel ironclads are permitted to
come out it will be casus belli. If he has taken that position, which I
have always urged, and we persist in it, all will be well.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 406
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