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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource] 7 5 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 7 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 6 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 3 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1863., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 4 2 Browse Search
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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)
learly a matter of general policy which he had a right to retain in his own hands. A similar spirit pervaded our diplomatic correspondence. Just before the attack on Fort Sumter (April 10), Seward instructed Adams not to consent to draw into debate before the British government any opposing moral principles which may be supposed to lie at the foundation of the controversy between those (the Confederate) States and the federal Union; and a week after the surrender (April 22) he instructed Dayton that the Territories will remain in all respects the same whether the revolution shall succeed or shall fail; the condition of slavery in the several States will remain just the same whether it shall succeed or shall fail. These disavowals of any moral issue in the contest made our cause appear one of empire only, and tended to repel foreign sympathy and remove the greatest impediment to foreign intervention. Lord Shaftesbury in a speech at a public meeting (reported in the London Times
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)
d an explanation from Mr. Seward, and the secretary in his reply, while stating that the resolution truly interpreted the unanimous sentiment of the people of the United States, explained in substance that the direction of the foreign policy of the government belonged to the executive department, which did not contemplate any change of policy in regard to the war between France and Mexico. This assurance quieted the French government, whose foreign minister, M. Drouyn de l'huys, had asked Mr. Dayton, at their first meeting after intelligence of the resolution had reached Paris (Mr. Seward's explanation not yet being known), Do you bring us peace or war? When the correspondence of the state department became public, Davis reported in the House from his committee, June 27, a resolution affirming that Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in matters of foreign policy, and that its declarations, while pending and undetermined, are not a fit topic of diplomatic e
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
the President wished to break his fall. He had been urged for Paris. He brought a paper to me recommending him, and wished me to sign it. I said at once, I am your friend, and shall speak to you frankly. You ought not to desire the mission to Paris. Fifteen or twenty senators signed it. President Lincoln afterwards read to me the list of names with comments. I then pressed Mr. Everett for Paris. It was at a later day that he let me know of the treaty with Bennett of the Herald. On Mr. Dayton's death, Mr. Lincoln offered the French mission to Mr. Bennett as a grateful recognition of the Herald's change from a disloyal to a loyal journal in 1861— the change taking place after a call from Thurlow Weed, which was made at the President's instance. Weed's Life, vol. i. pp. 615-619. To Mr. Bright, August 8:— My early prophecy in 1862 will be fulfilled, and nobody hanged for treason . . . . Meanwhile the day of tranquillity and reconciliation is still further postponed. S