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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
atic prudence. Nicolay and Hay's Life of Lincoln, vol. IV. pp. 269-277, Sumner was in Washington when this despatch was under consideration, and it is likely that the President advised with him concerning its modification. There was unfortunately in the critical period of 1861-1862 a conviction prevailing in England that Seward was personally hostile to that country, and bent on war with it. It may be accounted for by the tone of some of his official papers, as that of his letter, Oct. 14, 1861, to Lord Lyons; his proneness to suggest war or a rupture of friendly relations as an event likely to follow conduct of which we complained; his circular to the Northern governors concerning fortifications on the lakes, which gave apprehensions of a contemplated invasion of Canada; and perhaps also his style of conversation with diplomats and other foreigners, often mere badinage, which was interpreted to have a hostile meaning not intended by him. But this distrust, whatever its cause,
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
ial classes. Sumner was among statesmen the first to demand the policy of emancipation. His address has a historic place as the first formal declaration in any high quarter in favor of that policy. It stimulated thought in that direction, organized antislavery sentiment in the North, and crystallized public opinion. Its effects were soon seen in military orders and in speeches from public men, which pointed to a thorough policy against slavery. Secretary Camneron's instructions, Oct. 14, 1861, to Brigadier-General T. W. Sherman, and the latter's proclamation at Port Royal; Colonel John Cochrane's address to his regiment. Nov. 13, 1861, with Mr. Cameron's approving remarks; Wendell Philips's lecture on The War for the Union, in December, 1861; G. S. Boutwell's Address, Dec. 16, 1861, in Speeches and Papers relating to the Rebellion, p. 123. Cameron's annual report in December, 1861. as prepared contained an argument for emancipation and the arming of slaves, but the Presiden
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)
ion of public opinion. Two English statesmen, members of the Cabinet,—Earl Russell (Foreign Secretary) and Gladstone (Chancellor of the Exchequer),—both of whom Sumner had met in a friendly way, sorely disappointed him in their attitude on our contest. The former took occasion to say at an early day that our government and the insurgents were contending, as so many of the States 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 c