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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seward, William Henry 1801-1872 (search)
e cabinet of President Lincoln as Secretary of State. As early as March, 1861, when it was known that emissaries from the South had been sent abroad to seek recognition and aid for their cause, Mr. Seward addressed the American ministers in Europe, conjuring them to use all diligence to prevent the designs of those who would invoke foreign intervention to embarrass and overthrow the republic. President Lincoln had appointed Charles Francis Adams minister to the British Court, and on April 10, 1861, Secretary Seward William Henry Seward. instructed him concerning the manner in which he should oppose the agents of the Confederates. He directed him to stand up manfully as the representative of his whole country, and that as a powerful nation, asking no favors of others. You will, in no case, said Mr. Seward, listen to any suggestions of compromise by this government, under foreign auspices, with its discontented citizens. If—as the President does not at all apprehend—you shall
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tucker, George 1775-1861 (search)
Tucker, George 1775-1861 Author; born in Bermuda in 1775; graduated at William and Mary College in 1797; admitted to the bar and practised in Lynchburg; elected to Congress in 1819, 1821, and 1823; Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at the University of Virginia for twenty years. His publications include Letters on the conspiracy of slaves in Virginia; Letters on the Roanoke navigation; The Valley of Shenandoah; Life of Thomas Jefferson, with parts of his correspondence; Progress of the United States in population and wealth in fifty years; History of the United States from their Colonization to the end of the twenty-sixth Congress in 1841, etc. He died in Sherwood, Va., April 10, 1861.