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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 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)
putting it then on the ground of the minister's disobedience to instructions,—manifestly an afterthought. It is not proposed in this narrative to review the controversy between Fish and Motley as to the latter's departure from or conformity to his instructions. That duty properly belongs to his biographer and his representatives Dr. O. W. Holmes treats the controversy in his Memoir of Motley, pp 155-190. John Jay reviews it in his Motley's Appeal to History (International Review, November, 1877, pp. 838-854). Sumner touches certain points concerning it in his statement, March, 1871; Works, vol. XIV. pp. 251-276. New York Tribune, April 6, 1874. It will only be referred to incidentally in these pages when it comes into connection with Sumner's relations to the Administration. He wrote to Cushing, July 19:— There is a lull in our relations with England, which, I suppose, will continue until broken by Congress. Mihi multum cogitanti, it seems best that our case, in length