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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A visit to Beauvoir—President Davis and family at home. (search)
eresting details of the foreign relations of the Confederacy, and of how near we were several times to recognition by England and France. He spoke in the highest terms of praise of Captain Bullock's Secret Service of the Confederacy in Europe—a book which he thinks should be in every library—and said that the Confederacy had nothing to fear from the publication of all of its official correspondence. He spoke in strong terms of the double dealings of Louis Napoleon, who, after inviting Mr. Slidell, the Confederate commissioner, to have Confederate vessels built in France, and assuring him that there would be no obstacle to their going out afterwards, went square back on his word (because of certain representations of Mr. Dayton, the United States Minister), and refused to allow them to go out. When he was in France, after the war, the Emperor sent him word, that If he desired an interview with him he would be glad to grant it. But, said the grand old chief of the Confederacy, I wa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Building Confederate vessels in France. (search)
Atlantic. The subject was fully discussed with Mr. Slidell, and he did not see how the negotiation could be e intended to take any such decisive step alone. Mr. Slidell thought that we should be content with the cover were completed. Personally, I fully agreed with Mr. Slidell, and on the general question I subsequently wroteem. When the consultation between Messrs. Mason, Slidell, and myself was held in Paris, the result of whichied by the opinions and advice of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, I gave M. Arman, the principal builder, written into sell them certified also. Captain Tessier saw Mr. Slidell in Paris, who told him that he had been informed but I sent him immediately back with a letter to Mr. Slidell, and with instructions to arrange with M. Arman t and followed in a few days. A consultation with Mr. Slidell resulted in nothing but the conviction that the I the sympathies of the Imperial government, which Mr. Slidell was assured were still with the South; but it can