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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)
was critical rather than sympathetic; in 1860 he dreaded the probability of Seward being the candidate for President, and during the Civil War he indulged rather in complaint than in praise of the Administration; and his tone as to public affairs—alike as to the action of President, Cabinet, and Congress—was uniformly querulous and pessimistic. The writer has had at hand one hundred letters of Mr. and Mrs. Fish to Sumner,—much the larger number being from Mr. Fish. He wrote to Sumner, March 19, 1861:— Do you think that the government of the United States, under which we have lived, will ever again send abroad another batch of representatives? Soberly and candidly, I do not. In urging Sumner to take ground publicly against the foreign appointments, he wrote, Jan. 27, 1863:— I write as a friend who has loved you long and much. I trust that I do not offend. But I see country and government and nationality fading and passing away amid the riot of vulgarity, violenc