. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. and prolonged through weary months ofdiplomatic indifference and stupidity goes on, until finally, after dreamingand guessing, and rubbing their eyes and yawning for a few months, habright and refulgent star that represents this country in the court of theoffending power informs the government that he has just learned the namoof the imprisoned American, and as soon as he gets another Rip Van Winklenap will try to find out where the prison is located. The London Times and the Lo
. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. and prolonged through weary months ofdiplomatic indifference and stupidity goes on, until finally, after dreamingand guessing, and rubbing their eyes and yawning for a few months, habright and refulgent star that represents this country in the court of theoffending power informs the government that he has just learned the namoof the imprisoned American, and as soon as he gets another Rip Van Winklenap will try to find out where the prison is located. The London Times and the London Daily News, in speaking of the Wallercase, make these statements. The Times says: The outrage upon ex-ConsulWaller of the United States is without the slightest warrant or News says: It is the most scandalous and insolent example of a directinsult to a friendly power that has occurred in modern times. This is the weak spot in our national history. In the high and palmy days of Rome, one had only to proclaim himself aRoman citizen to feel the power of Rome and the shield of the Roman eagle;. GEORGE E. RANXEY M. D.,Surg-eon, Second Michigan Cavalry. HISTORY OF MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 273 but Waller has lain in prison a year, and the French government has refusedpermission to our minister in Paris to see him, and all demands for evidenceon which he was convicted have been refused. I ask your pardon and indulgence for this digression from the chief purposeand object, which called us together; but when I see a shadow, a dark spot,like the eclipse, crawling and encroaching upon the sparkling beauty of asingle star of Old Glory, dimming its luster and clouding its unrivalled splen-dor as the unsullied emblem of the best system of government vouchsafed toman, my heart thrills with indignation, as it warms up with patriotic senti-ments, when such flagrant outrages upon our citizens by foreign powers areheralded throughout the world, and pass unredressed and forgot
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