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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)
with no great prospect of change of any kind. The feeling about America is intensely Southern, and I with my Northern sympathies remain in greater isolation than ever. Lord Houghton's Life, vol. II. pp. 76, 77. Men like Earl Russell and the Buxtons gave as an excuse for their want of sympathy at the beginning that we disavowed an antislavery policy, and later when that policy was announced they reprobated it as inviting servile insurrection. Gladstone and the Bishop of Oxford (son of Wilberforce the philanthropist) affected to believe that the extinction of slavery was more likely to follow the success than the defeat of the insurgents. Others, whose better instincts inclined them to our side, laid great stress on every incident of the conflict which did not agree with their notions of propriety,—such as the sinking of obstructions in Charleston harbor, the inclusion of chloroform and medicines among articles contraband of war, or General Butler's order inflicting deserved punis
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 49: letters to Europe.—test oath in the senate.—final repeal of the fugitive-slave act.—abolition of the coastwise slave-trade.—Freedmen's Bureau.—equal rights of the colored people as witnesses and passengers.—equal pay of colored troops.—first struggle for suffrage of the colored people.—thirteenth amendment of the constitution.— French spoliation claims.—taxation of national banks.— differences with Fessenden.—Civil service Reform.—Lincoln's re-election.—parting with friends.—1863-1864. (search)
eady more than her quota according to the proportions in which offices are distributed. . . . This will be a free country. Be its sculptor. Give us-give mankind—a work which will typify or commemorate a redeemed nation. . . . After a painful illness, my only surviving brother, George, has gone, leaving me more than ever alone. My mother is infirm, and my sister is in California. God bless you, dear William! Give my love to Emmeline and Edith, of whom I hear brilliant things. To Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, February 5:— I cannot receive any message of friendship from England, especially from one who was always so kind to me, and, more than all, who bears such relations to the cause which is so dear to me, without confessing how much it touches me. Embracing with my whole heart the hope for peace between our two homes, and happy in every word which helps the removal of slavery, or which shows that this end is sincerely sought, I was glad to hear through an admirabl