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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)
ne of American birth, added a postscript, saying that herself and her daughter were stanch Northerners. It was a surprise and grief to Sumner to see English opinion run so strongly against us. As he had expected more from this source than others, his sense of disappointment was greater than theirs; and the England of his youth was never the same England to him again. Saddest of all was the cold shoulder of scholars and philanthropists. Among those in our favor were Goldwin Smith, Thomas Hughes, Mill, Huxley, Fawcett, R. M. Miles, and F. W. Newman. R. M. Milnes wrote to C. J. MacCarty, Jan. 20, 1862: I am in a minority of two or three, the House of Commons and society being all Southern; and to George von Bunsen, Feb. 6, 1862: Parliament meets to-day, with no great prospect of change of any kind. The feeling about America is intensely Southern, and I with my Northern sympathies remain in greater isolation than ever. Lord Houghton's Life, vol. II. pp. 76, 77. Men like Earl Ru