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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
our cause, was not unfriendly to it, and our country was on the whole fortunate in having him at this critical period as the representative of Great Britain in Washington. When his intercourse with public men more or less in sympathy with the rebellion was questioned, Sumner put the better construction upon it, as will be seen in his letter to Lieber. Post, p. 138. Partly for amusement, and partly for practice in French, Sumner allowed his time to be taken by conversations with Gustave Paul Cluseret, a Frenchman always in search of revolutions, made a brigadier-general in our Civil War at a period when commissions were lavishly and inconsiderately given, and later a minister under the French Commune. Like all such adventurers, he was full of complaints against everybody, which he poured on the senator in frequent calls and in letters of enormous length. Another foreigner often seen at Sumner's lodgings during the first year or two of the Civil War, whose visits were about th