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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)
tention to two pages on privateering, in order that he might see how it is regarded by one of our moralists and instructors. He read the condemnation aloud until his eyesight failed; then I finished the passage. Adams in a letter to Seward, March 27, 1863, deprecated any present resort to so doubtful a remedy. Mr. Lincoln was impressed with his representations, and invited him to state his views at a meeting of the Cabinet, but on Sumner's doubting the expediency of this step, requested him tond his own unwillingness to serve with them; and upon the outburst becoming known he was put under arrest, Feb. 10, 1863, by General Hunter, who deemed the expressions disloyal. Boston Journal, Feb. 28, March 17, 1863; Boston Commonwealth, March 27, 1863; New York Tribune, March 17; D. W. Bartlett in New York Independent, June 11. At the time of the arrest his nomination as brigadiergeneral was pending in the Senate. He was the son of J. Thomas Stevenson, a conservative of the most rigid typ