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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)
eech at Worcester, and expressing the hope that our government would soon hoist the standard of emancipation. Harriet Martineau complained, Nov. 18, 1862, that American opinion treated England unfairly as compared with France, as the former country had resisted the latter's pressure for breaking the blockade and for intervention. Martin F. Tupper, though of positive antislavery convictions, wrote, Nov. 9, 1862, that it would be better to let the South go than to attempt a forced union. Earl de Grey (later Marquis of Ripon), who succeeded G. C. Lewis as Secretary of War, answered, June 14, 1863, Sumner's note of congratulation, and while withholding an expression of opinion on our contest, joined heartily in Sumner's hope for a continuance of unbroken peace between the two nations. Several English friends with whom Sumner came into intimate relations during his first visit to Europe were now far apart from him. The Wharncliffes were open partisans of the South. The Marchioness
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
son, and G. H. Williams; the British commissioners were Earl de Grey (afterwards Marquis of Ripon), Sir Stafford Northcote (have his co-operation in the final result. Two of them—Earl de Grey and Sir Stafford Northcote—had brought letters to him, he commissioners, and several times he breakfasted with Earl de Grey. Late in April the senator gave all the members, inclurote to Lieber in August: I know not if I told you that Lord de Grey told me that without my speech the treaty could not hav met the senator's objections to the first, and reports Earl de Grey as saying that the senator made the Washington treaty,—neva. Sumner had pleasant letters from Northcote and Earl de Grey after their return, both of whom would have been glad t and ascertainment of the rules of international law. Earl de Grey wrote from London, June 17:— The day may come when with all their attractive memories of art and literature, De Grey, now Marquis of Ripon, wrote:— The result of our
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 36: (search)
perceived the greatness of the result. When the Attorney and Solicitor-General of England were called upon to find traces of high treason in what had been done, De Grey as well as Dunning declared, none Opinion of De Grey and Dunning on the Papers submitted to them, Nov. 1768. had been committed. Look into the papers, said DeDe Grey and Dunning on the Papers submitted to them, Nov. 1768. had been committed. Look into the papers, said De Grey, and see how well these Americans are versed in the crown law; I doubt whether they have been guilty of an overt act of treason, but I am sure they have come within a hair's breadth of it. The Attorney General in the Debate of 26 Jan. 1769; Cavendish, i. 196. m, Nov. 1768. had been committed. Look into the papers, said De Grey, and see how well these Americans are versed in the crown law; I doubt whether they have been guilty of an overt act of treason, but I am sure they have come within a hair's breadth of it. The Attorney General in the Debate of 26 Jan. 1769; Cavendish, i. 196.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
ise, there were scarcely more than five or six in both Houses, who defended the Americans from principle. Every body expected that Boston would meet with chastisement. But now came the difficulty. There were on the tenth of November more than four regiments in Boston; what could be given them to do? They had been sent over to bring to justice those, whom Barrington called rioters, whom the King had solemnly described as turbulent and mischievous persons. But after long consideration, De Grey and Dunning, the Attorney and Solicitor General, joined in the opinion, Attorney and Solicitor Gen. to Hillsborough, 25 Nov. 1768. that the Statute of the Thirty-fifth of Henry the Eighth, was the only one by which criminals could be tried in England for offences committed in America; that its provisions extended only to trea- Chap. XXXVIII} 1768. Nov. sons; and that there was no sufficient ground to fix the charge of high treason upon any persons named in the papers laid before them.