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commissioners in fact it arrived, Yancey and Rost. As brought from
them[140], Russell listened with attention their representation, but
not made comment that informs. They debated the constitutional right of
secession, painted the fixed determination of the South, it was confident
of the first acquiescence of the north, and it especially placed stress on the
Desiderio Meridionale for free trade. His/her own relationship of Russell to Lyons on this
interview and on a kept six days later, May 9, it is in substantial
accord, but very more you/he/she is done by him that from the Commissioners of a
he/she asks put by Russell as to a Southern plan to revive the African
enslaved-trade[141]. Yancey and Rost denied this and they affirmed "that them
you/he/she had prohibited the enslaved-work, and he/she didn't mean to revive him/it." Them
you bring to Richmond doesn't paint this matter as of special
meant in the interview; Russell's relationship to Lyons places stress
on him. The general result of the interview was that Russell he/she listened,
but it refused, as to Dallas, to make some pawn on recognition. But the
Southern commissioners came away with a feeling of the trust and they were
happy to wait on British action[142].
In this same day, May 3, Russell received from the lawyer-general a
makes a memorandum than in it replies to a consultation as to recognizing the belligerency of the
South and as to the right of the South to publish letters of mark and
retaliation. The memorandum note that Southern privateerings would be
dangerous to British commerce with the north, but he/she doesn't see help for him.
"The best solution", he/she wrote the lawyer-general, "it would be for the
European nations to determine that the war among the two Confederations
you/he/she will be brought on on the principles of 'Justum Bellum', and it will be
conducted according to the rules of the Essay in Paris. Recognizes the
Is Southern as a Belligerent on this only[143 of condition]." The next one
day, reporting himself/herself/itself to this memorandum Russell wrote Lyons that the law