Called on Secretary of State by appointment, relative to
dispatch to Lord Lyons. While there, I mentioned that he continued to send
inquiries from Lord Lyons relative to captured British blockade-runners who
were retained in custody on his suggestion. He said he wished that course
pursued, but the change of policy required time to effect the change. Lord
Lyons, he said, could not at once reconcile his government to the measure. He
alluded to my having at an early period desired that these persons should be held,
but that he had doubted it because they ought not to be permitted to run the
blockade more than a second time.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 517
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