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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
; Jan. 6, 1864. Adams to Russell, April 7, May 20, 1865. Mr. Adams contended in this list cited letter against the right of the Confederates to be recognized as belligerents on the ocean, on the same grounds that Sumner took in 1863, and later in 1869. they a-firmed it to be the first unfriendly or wrongful proceeding of which they [losses by the depredations] are but the consequences, . . .a violation of neutrality, and a national wrong and injury. Seward to Adams, May 22, 1867, and Jan. 13, 1868. Adams contended in his letter of May 20, 1865, that the nation that recognizes a power as a belligerent before it had built a vessel, and became itself the sole source of all the belligerent character it has ever possessed on the ocean, must be regarded as responsible for all the damage that has ensued from that cause to the commerce of a power with which it was under the most sacred of obligations to preserve amity and peace. Our counsel at Geneva maintained that a portion of these cl