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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
lent excitement of your people just now leads many of us to fear that he may be disposed to do high-handed and offensive things which would necessarily lead to bad blood, and perhaps finally to rupture. I rejoice that at such a critical time you are at the head of the body which on foreign relations is able to control the government, because I know how anxious you will be to be just and considerate in your dealings. Cobden expressed the same confidence in Sumner in his letter to Lieut.-Colonel Fitzmayer, Dec. 3, 1861. Life, pp. 386, 387. I only wish you had been in Seward's place. There is a great fear here that he has got it into his head that the English people can't and won't take offence at anything the American government may do to their ships or their people. Now, this is a great mistake. I believe there is no desire stronger here than that of maintaining friendly relations with America. But there are points on which our people are very sensitive; and if they saw themselv