50/58 367.] [Footnote 3: _Life of Lady John Russell_, p. 197.] [Footnote 4: There was a revival of this fear at the end of the American Civil War. This will be commented on later.] [Footnote 5: This was the position of President and Congress: yet the United States had not acknowledged the right of an American citizen to expatriate himself.] [Footnote 6: Between 1797 and 1801, of the sailors taken from American ships, 102 were retained, 1,042 were discharged, and 805 were held for further proof. (Updyke, _The Diplomacy of the War of 1812_, p. |