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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 342 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 180 2 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 178 2 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 168 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 122 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 118 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 118 2 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 106 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 102 2 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 97 3 Browse Search
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r. Faulkner's interview with M. Thouvenel, the French courier for Foreign Affairs, has been published, the Department of State at Washington has thought proper to publish the correspondence. We have already noticed the decisive instructions of Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton growing out of Mr. Faulkner's letter: Legation of the United States. Paris April 15, 1861. Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State:-- Sir:--I called to-day upon M. Thouvenel, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and wHon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State:-- Sir:--I called to-day upon M. Thouvenel, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was promptly admitted to an interview. Agreeably to your request, I handed to him a copy of the inaugural address of President Lincoln, and added that I was instructed by you to say to him that it embraced the views of the President of the United States upon the difficulties which now disturb the harmony of the American Union, and also an exposition of the general policy which it was the purpose of the government to pursue with a view to the preservation of domestic peace and the maintenance of
d of the Southern people and subjugating the Southern States. Therefore such men can never again support the Administration of Mr. Lincoln, which has now abandoned the defensive policy of maintaining the Federal Capital, heretofore declared in Mr. Seward's letter to Gov. Hicks Gov. Hicks himself might sustain the Government when it adhered to its defensive policy, but now that it has avowed a policy of subjugation he will be bound, in honor, to occupy himself exclusively with the protection of his own people. Mr. McLane read Mr. Seward's letter to Mr. Dayton, our Minister to France, dated May 4, the day of the Commissioners' visit to Washington, declaring the new war policy of the Government, and acknowledging the radical change in it, and in this connection he argued how widely Governor Hicks was now separated from the Administration, if he remained true to his own professions. It was, said Mr. McLane, a great crisis in his life, and the Governor ought to thank God that he