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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)
ward of damages. This delay he admitted late in life to have been an error. Recollections and Suggestions (Boston, 1875), pp. 235, 334. While his feelings do not appear to have inclined him decidedly to one side or the other, he treated the contest with an air of indifference, though without any definite purpose of hostility to either party; and on a review of his whole course he appears to have endeavored to maintain a fair neutrality. His speeches in the Lords, April 29, 1864, and March 23, 1865, justify this better view of him. Certainly he was effective in resisting a strong party which was always pressing for intervention. Few, if any, of his class and rank would have been likely to have done better for us in his position than he did; Mr. Bright said to E. L. Pierce that Earl Russell was our friend, though badly surrounded. In letters to Sumner, April 24 and May 2, 1863, he describes Russell as meaning well, but weak and changeable. but more was expected from him than fr