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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)
in the Old World have contended, the one side for empire, and the other for independence. At Newcastle, Oct. 14, 1861. His despatches were, in Sumner's view, hard, curt, captious, cynical. The fitness of these terms appears in Russell's criticisms of the Proclamation of Emancipation, Jan. 17, 1863, which four years later he publicly withdrew. At the Garrison breakfast, St. James's Hall, London, June 24, 1867. His neglect to detain the Alabama for some days after he had received Sir Robert Collier's opinion, while waiting for that of the Crown lawyers, brought the countries to the brink of war, and cost England heavily in the subsequent award of damages. This delay he admitted late in life to have been an error. Recollections and Suggestions (Boston, 1875), pp. 235, 334. While his feelings do not appear to have inclined him decidedly to one side or the other, he treated the contest with an air of indifference, though without any definite purpose of hostility to either party; a