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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)
sing to entertain further the consideration of our claims. Lord Stanley modified this position (Nov. 30, 1866, March 9 and Nov. 10, 1867), only to the extent of expressing a willingness to consent to a limited reference. The purpose of the speech was to insure a permanent peace, and such too was its effect. On this point there is the indisputable authority of Sir Stafford Northcote, who, while serving at Washington on the Joint High Commission, wrote as follows:— 1311 K Street, April 27, 1871. My dear Mr. Sumner,—I have to thank you for sending me your speech on the Johnson-Clarenden treaty. It is one which I am glad to possess for many reasons, not the least of which is that it marks an epoch, perhaps the turning point, in the great controversy which I am sanguine enough to think is now approaching its termination. I cannot tell you how cordially I sympathize with what seems to me the governing idea of the speech. Great international differences are not to be disposed