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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)
ersonal relations were not disturbed, as is shown by a letter of Seward to Sumner, May 12, 1863. The secretary had chafed under Sumner's superior influence with the President, and had once remarked, when the senator's opinion had been quoted by the President against him, that there were too many secretaries of state in Washington. Mr. Welles, to whom the subject was referred in the Cabinet, entered heartily into Sumner's view, and expressed himself in an elaborate letter to Mr. Seward, March 31, 1863. As Mr. Seward did not submit this letter to the President, the latter called for it, and sending for the senator, they read together the letter and discussed the subject of privateering and reprisals. Sumner's protests were at last effective. According to Mr. Welles, this interview of the senator with the President, and his own conference with him concerning the application of a Prussian adventurer (the only one filed under the Act), terminated the privateer policy, and closed the su