Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4. You can also browse the collection for Baptist Noel or search for Baptist Noel in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

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)
opinions of the address are given in Works, vol. VII. pp. 474-492. Sumner's Address encountered criticism in England on these grounds: (1) It did not take into account the differences of opinion among the English people, and ignored the sympathy with our cause on the part of large masses of them, and particularly of the workingmen, who had suffered from the blockade, and on the part of certain English leaders,—Bright, Cobden, and Forster in Parliament, and Spurgeon, Newman Hall, and Baptist Noel in the pulpit. But Sumner was dealing with the nation as a unit, represented by its official heads. He was not writing an historical review after the contest had ended, in which a moral judgment on a people ought to take note of differences of opinion among them; but he was seeking in the midst of the contest to bring a foreign government to a sense of its obligations. (2) It condemned sharply the government of Great Britain, and let off easily that of France, although the former countr