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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)
greed upon by the committee without any suggestion from the Administration, they met the entire and cordial approval of Mr. Seward. They passed the House by a large majority, and were sent, as was required by the last resolution, to our ministers abroad to be communicated to foreign governments. Mr. Greeley had advocated in the New York Tribune the submission of the questions involved in the contest to a neutral power,—Switzerland, for instance, and in letters to Sumner, March 16 and Sept. 24, 1863, expressed his grief that the latter had rejected in the present instance the remedy of arbitration as a substitute for war which he had on other occasions supported. Sumner commented briefly on the subject of mediation, Jan. 16, 1863, in connection with W. C. Jewett's petition. Congressional Globe, p. 348. One incident concerning the resolutions—the assent of Garrett Davis of Kentucky to them in committee, notwithstanding the prominence they gave to the pro-slavery inspiration of