Potts.] X^U [April 19, 



the flags being hauled, Seinmes took his pistol to blow out their brains — 

 this Is true and don't show there was any disposition to fire guns when 

 sinking. 



" We had 3 severely wounded. The Alabama has here now 74 men and 

 officers — 3 dead, making 77 of the number, 18 are wounded — 39 were 

 landed (officers and men) in England, making 116 in all. Of the 116 left 

 about 20 are wounded and they say some 40 lost, killed and went down 

 in the ship. For want of means for providing I was compelled to parole 

 all except officers. 



" This is a memorandum of the whole story, which I am sorry from the 

 number of letters I have to answer, that I cannot put in another shape, 



"I remain with thanks very truly yours, 



"Jno. a. Winslow. 

 "Thos. H. Dudley, Esq., IT. S. Consul, 

 Liverpool." 



Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis, in his recent interesting work, 3Jr. Fish 

 and the Alabama Claims; A Chapter in Diplomatic History, has ably 

 set forth Mr. Sumner's estimate of the damages inflicted on the United 

 States by England, and though we may agree with Mr. Davis in his per- 

 sonal estimate of Sumner's character and ability, and especially that such 

 a statement of damages was undiplomatic and impractical as regards any 

 pending arbitrations, yet nevertheless we must allow that a large body of 

 the American people felt that Mr. Sumner truly stated our wrongs. His 

 was not an overestimate of the importance of these damages which are 

 so far away they seem unreal to the present generation which unques- 

 tionably prolonged the war and produced the slaughter of thousands of 

 our countrymen, who died by English bullets fired from English guns 

 for whose death England was responsible. 



Mr. Davis, quoting Mr. Sumner's speech in the Senate upon the John- 

 son-Clarendon Treaty for the settlement of the Alabama Claims, says : 

 " Under the heading, 'The Case Against England,' he [Sumner] said : 

 ' At three difterent stages the British Government is compromised ; first, 

 in the concession of ocean belligerency, on which all depended ; secondly, 

 in the negligence which allowed the evasion of the ship in order to enter 

 upon the hostile expedition for which she was built, manned, armed and 

 equipped ; and thirdly, in the open complicity which, after the evasion, 

 gave her welcome, hospitality and supplies in British ports. Thus her 

 depredations and burnings, making the ocean blaze, all proceeded from 

 England, wliich by three different acts lighted the torch. To England must 

 be traced the widespread consequences which ensued.' What those wide- 

 spread consequences were he set forth in detail under the heading, ' The 

 Extent of Our Losses.' He estimated the loss sustained by the capture 

 and burning of American vessels at about $15,000,000, on the authority 

 of 'a statistician.' The loss in the carrying trade he put at $110,000,000. 

 Then he said that, large as these losses were, there was another chapter 



