We have recognized it as one of the most important questions that have been before us. Ordinarily there is no necessity for Congressional legislation on such a subject as this. Our statutes require that when the President shall be informed that any of our citizens. nativeborn.or naturalized. are in foreign prisons. he shall demand of the government imprisoning them the cause of their arrest. And he may go further. if in his opinion they are improperly held. and demand their release. but that he shall do nothing in this regard amounting to an act of war. Now. the President did speak on this question. did correspond through the Secretary of State with the authorities of Great Britain. and no good came of it.
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