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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 5 5 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
rents; the remainder rested on the acts of the cruisers. Reverdy Johnson, the successor of Mr. Adams, maintained that the recognition of belligerent rights was included in his treaty as one of the grounds of Great Britain's liability. Reverdy Johnson to Seward, Feb. 17, 1869. Mr. Fish in no respect waived the claim of our government founded on the premature recognition of rebel belligerency, and he put it in the foreground as much as ever Sumner did. In the instructions to Motley, May 15, 1869, a month after Sumner's speech was made, he treated the concession as the beginning and the animus of that course of conduct which resulted so disastrously to the United States; as important in that it foreshadowed subsequent events,—embodying Sumner's point that, unlike the French proclamation, it was supplemented by acts causing direct damage to the United States. Then followed the instructions to the same minister, Sept. 25, 1869, which heap epithets on the proclamation, declaring th