hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for June or search for June in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Lincoln's Message. (search)
correspondence touching foreign affairs which has taken place during the last year is herewith submitted, in virtual compliance with a request to that effect made by the House of Representatives near the close of the last session of Congress. If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily distracted as we are might reasonably have apprehended. In the month of June last there were some grounds to expect that the maritime powers which, at the beginning of our domestic difficulties so unwisely and unnecessarily as we think, recognized the insurgents as belligerent, would soon recede from that position, which has proved only less injurious to themselves than to our own country. But the temporary reverses which afterwards befell the national arms, and which were exaggerated by our own disloyal citizens abroad, have hitherto delayed that act of simple just