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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)
ng moral principles Ante, p. 39. from the Civil War at its beginning, and at his further assurance that slavery was to remain untouched by the conflict; Ante, p. 39. but Seward had added a grave cause of offence. In a despatch to Mr. Adams, July 5, 1862, which had recently come to Sumner's attention, he treated armed rebels (the extreme advocates of African slavery) and loyal antislavery men (its most vehement opponents) as acting in concert together to precipitate a servile war,— . . .the fompts to overthrow the federal Union; the latter by demanding an edict of universal emancipation as a lawful and necessary if not, as they say, the only legitimate way of saving the Union. Curiously enough, when Mr. Seward sent his despatch, July 5, 1862, the President was already brooding on a proclamation of emancipation, which he mentioned to two of his secretaries eight days later, and formally presented to his Cabinet, July 22. The general dissatisfaction of the Republican senators wi