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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)
and man. The duke replied, April 24, 1863, at length to this letter. He found nothing in Lord Russell's despatch which was objectionable, and commended as favorable to us his recent reply in the House of Lords, March 23, to Lord Stratheden (Campbell). He treated the escape of the Alabama as an accident, and giving no case of quarrel. He claimed that a neutral could sell unarmed ships to a belligerent, and that such was the case of the Alabama. He regarded with astonishment Sumner's undyinly and most kindly where I think England has erred. It is twice. First, she declared neutrality between the two parties,—fatal mistake, from which Lord Russell's speech March 23, in which Earl Russell contended, in reply to Lord Stratheden (Campbell), that an offer of mediation would be premature, and a recognition of the Confederates unfriendly to the United States; and he also maintained that there was no case for the intervention of foreign powers. is the beginning of extrication. There
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
for the slave-masters, and did not care at all for the slaves. Oh, no! not at all. You will read the report of the conferences. At Hampton Roads, February 3, between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward on the one side, and Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell on the other. It appears that the President was drawn into them by the assurances of General Grant, who was led to expect something. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. x. p. 127. Perhaps the country sees now more clearly than ever that closed, Governor, how is the Capitol? Is it finished? This gave Seward an opportunity of picturing the present admired state of the works, with the dome completed, and the whole constituting one of the most magnificent edifices of the world. Campbell, formerly of the Supreme Court of the United States, and reputed the ablest lawyer in the slave States, began the conference by suggesting peace on the basis of a Zollverein, and continued free-trade between the two sections, which he thought mi