Ode to Mason and Slidell

Poem relating the removal of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell from the British mail steamer Trent, their intended incarceration in Boston and referral to British protest resulting in their release. Poem relating the removal of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell from the British mail steamer Trent, their intended incarceration in Boston and referral to British protest resulting in their release. by H. Webster Canterbury. Broadsheet. Poetry in ten four-line stanzas. To be sung to the tune: Twenty years ago. Above title cut of ship under sail.