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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 2 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
this country grew out of the peculiar exigencies of a civil war, when a long southern coast was held by the insurgents; and that period was receding. Military considerations were diminishing in force, and ambition for territory was not the passion of the hour. Every day, too, the Administration, of which Mr. Seward was the inspiring leader, was losing the confidence of the country. He telegraphed Jan. 19, 1867, to Mr. Yeaman, Tell Raasloff, haste important. In a letter to Mr. Yeaman, Aug. 7, 1867, he urged on the Danish government promptness in the pending negotiation as essential to success; and in letters September 23 and 28, a month before the convention was signed, he emphasized the hazard to which the procrastination at Copenhagen had exposed the whole business, as in the mean time the people of the country had lost interest in the acquisition of a naval station in the West Indies, and were turning their attention to other and cheaper projects. He wrote:— The desire fo