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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 48: Seward.—emancipation.—peace with France.—letters of marque and reprisal.—foreign mediation.—action on certain military appointments.—personal relations with foreigners at Washington.—letters to Bright, Cobden, and the Duchess of Argyll.—English opinion on the Civil War.—Earl Russell and Gladstone.—foreign relations.—1862-1863. (search)
had also a sentiment of fellowship with the slaveholding class. Their sympathies acted on others in social relation with them. 2. Manufacturers hoped by our dismemberment to obtain free trade with the South. The trade connections of Liverpool and Manchester, and other commercial centres ramifying through the kingdom, made English capital almost a unit against our cause. 3. The Morrill tariff act of 1861 was a fresh grievance. Lord Russell, in his first interview with Mr. Adams, May 18, 1861, touched upon the high protective tariff recently enacted; and Mr. Adams assured him that it was intended rather for revenue than for protection, and that if it failed in bringing revenue it would not be maintained for the sake of monopoly and restriction. Lord Russell to Lord Lyons, May 21, 1861. 4. The contest on the part of the South was assumed to be one of State rights, and therefore justified by the example of the colonies in our Revolution. 5. The declarations of our gove