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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
r in his speech on the Alaska purchase. Whatever color of justice there may have been in Denmark's point of good faith came from Mr. Seward's unauthorized assurances that the enterprise was sure of approval in the Senate; and according to the Washington correspondence at the time, the committee on foreign relations, at their hearing Jan. 28, 1869, thought them to be an egregious blunder when General Raasloff made them the basis of his appeal. Mr. Seward said to the Danish negotiator, June 28, 1866, that the Executive could always count upon the assistance of Congress in matters of this kind, provided the proceedings had been correct, and in other communications gave the Danish government to understand that there need be no fear as to the ratification. Arguments in newspapers and pamphlets at the time put the case for ratification chiefly on the ground that Mr. Seward had committed us to the treaty by his ill-considered and precipitate action. Raasloffs intimate friends laid the