The furious storm of last night and to-day fills us with
apprehensions for the two ironclads, Nahant and Weehawken. It is hoped they put
in to the Breakwater. Wrote Seward, who makes inquiry respecting the
construction of vessels for the Japanese, advising that the Government should
have nothing to do with them, that Pruyn, the commissioner, ought not to commit
or in any way implicate the Government.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 225
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