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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
ome military success. Seward's correspondence and other evidence show that he was opposed to the step on other grounds than that of timeliness, and that he was out of sympathy with those who, to quote his own words, had long and importunately clamored for a proclamation of emancipation. Ante, pp. 39, 40; post, p. 110; Seward's Life, vol. III. pp 118, 135; Welles's Lincoln and Seward, p. 210; Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. VI p. 128; Owen Lovejoy's letter to W. L. Garrison, Feb. 22, 1864, Liberator, April 1, 1864. Chase wrote to Sumner, August 12: The President's mind undergoes, I think, a progressive change in the line of a more vigorous policy and more decisive enfranchisement. The President carried out his purpose September 22, five days after the battle of Antietam,—submitting his preliminary proclamation to his Cabinet, deciding the question then wholly himself, and asking advice only as to phrases and details. Sumner received the announcement with profound satisf