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The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Seward. The English peace address, with three hundred and fifty thousand signatures, asking Lincoln to suspend hostilities, was carried to Washington by Mr. Joseph Parker, of Manchester, England, on Saturday. He wrote a note to Seward asking permission to present it to Lincoln: To this the Secretary replied that, before answering the letter, it was desirable to be further informed whether Mr. Parker had authority from the Government of Great Britain and Ireland for the purpose referred to, and whether his mission had been made known to the diplomatic agent of that Government near the Government of the United States.--Mr. Parker replied by sayingMr. Parker replied by saying that the address he had the honor of bringing to this country, containing the signatures of some three hundred and fifty thousand of his countrymen, from the peer to the artisan, was not from the Government of Great Britain, nor from any political party. It was simply an expression of the earnest desire of Great Britain to see p