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in question ; I mean therefore simply to observe on the 

 early, as well as final resolve, to withdraw the crews, 

 to use a recorded expression, " and when you judged 

 you thought all had been done which could be done for 

 the attainment of these objects, you were not to linger 

 out, but to bring your crews home ;" and further, " when 

 you judged you could do no more, would have the cou- 

 rage to act on your judgment, and to return home." 



Simply, then, I stood with a recorded guarantee before 

 the country, that the issue of the search was vested in 

 me, and that with me it was to terminate. Assuredly I 

 was not to linger out, and thus, by accumulating ex- 

 pense, to render it interminable ; nor yet by oscillating 

 conduct as regarded the vessels, for that matter was fully 

 understood before sailing, or further to jeopardize the 

 crews when I formed an opinion they should be with- 

 drawn, merely to serve the feelings of any men, required 

 to desert these purchased masses of timber, when I 

 thought such a step desirable, for really the pendant 

 flew merely to ensure martial law, they were not por- 

 tions of our Navy beyond this emblem, and the discipline 

 which it entailed. 



