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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)
n slavery as a corner-stone should be excluded peremptorily and indignantly from the family of Christian nations. The Duke of Argyll, in a letter to Sumner, September 30, refused to admit in international intercourse a distinction between a new slave country and an old one. He pleaded that England by her traditional devotion toize courts, uniformly burned captured ships. Earl Russell and other English critics did not touch this point. The Duke of Argyll, however, in his letter of September 30, admitted that there was force in the contention. The Confederates alleged, in justification of their habitual destruction of captured vessels, the stringent s the fire not hot enough already? And in this and later letters she maintained her protest with justifications and apologies. The duke also in his letter of September 30 deprecated the Address for its probable effect in both countries, and defended Earl Russell. He wrote in an excellent spirit, rejoicing in our recent success