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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)
hey think best. . . . Meanwhile we await the change in England. Let it be soon,—soon for the sake of civilization; soon for the sake of peace. I am so much of an Englishman that I say freely, soon for the sake of England herself. The letter against letters of marque Works, vol. VII. p. 313. which I enclose was to the New York Chamber of Commerce. My policy has at last prevailed. There will be no letters, at least for the present. Mr. Seward has been obliged to yield. To Lieber, May 3: Reply to Lieber's letter, April 19, 1863, printed in Lieber's Life and Letters, pp. 331-333.— Of course I always listen to you, especially on any topic within the domain of history or public law, with the disposition to assent at once. You conquer as soon as you come upon the ground. And Mr. Binney has an authority peculiar to himself also. You know that I have always regarded him as the first lawyer our country has produced. Others may have had as much law; but none have had a
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)
irit of hostility and revenge, and representing the views of the senators as well as public opinion. Fessenden was the first to approve; and he was followed by Sherman, Howard, Morton, Scott, Thurman, Casserly, Stockton, Chandler, and Warner. Fessenden and other senators, in personal congratulations and in public remarks, commended particularly its moderation and conciliatory spirit. New York Tribune, April 14; New York Times, April 14; New York Herald, April 14. The last named journal, May 3, reports an interview with the senator, in which he stated some incidents connected with the speech. The treaty was then rejected by a vote of fifty-four to one. The Senate of its own motion, without prompting from Sumner, removed before opening its doors the injunction of secrecy from the speech. Mr. Grimes, senator from Iowa, wrote to the London Times, May 12 (An American Citizen) that the injunction was removed at Sumner's request. Sumner denied this in a letter to Grimes, but the l