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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)
am no idolater of the Union; I have never put our cause on this ground. But I hate slavery; and never through any action or non-action of mine shall a new slave-empire be allowed to come into being to insult God and man. The duke replied, April 24, 1863, at length to this letter. He found nothing in Lord Russell's despatch which was objectionable, and commended as favorable to us his recent reply in the House of Lords, March 23, to Lord Stratheden (Campbell). He treated the escape of the Alintervention. Few, if any, of his class and rank would have been likely to have done better for us in his position than he did; Mr. Bright said to E. L. Pierce that Earl Russell was our friend, though badly surrounded. In letters to Sumner, April 24 and May 2, 1863, he describes Russell as meaning well, but weak and changeable. but more was expected from him than from them on account of the liberal opinions of which he had been at other times the supporter. Gladstone, unlike Russell, had