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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24: the called session of Congress.--foreign relations.--benevolent organizations.--the opposing armies. (search)
ity, and so prolonged the war at least two years, will be observed hereafter. The French Emperor, to whose court William L. Dayton, of New Jersey, was sent, by the new Administration, to succeed Faulkner, of Virginia, In his instructions to MrMr. Dayton (April 22, 1861), Mr. Seward took the same high ground as in those to Mr. Adams. The President neither expects nor desires intervention, or even favor, he said, from the Government of France, or any other, in this emergency. Whatever else hnt of the United States may be engaged with any portion of the United States. On the 4th of May, Mr. Seward instructed Mr. Dayton to say to M. Thouvenal, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the thought of dissolution of this Union, peaceaberprises, at about the same time, for the aggrandizement of his empire, and the propagation of imperialism on the William L. Dayton. American Continent, with the belief that the days of the Great Republic were numbered, and its democratic for