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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
letters to Mr. Seward, January 21, March 13, April 27 and 30, and May 2, 1867. finally, instead of an acceptance of Mr. Seward's offers, one counter proposition and then another; the Danish minister at Washington going home and leaving no successor; the insistence of Denmark after the price had been fixed on a vote of the islanders, which in view of what they were could be of no significance, and which involved vexatious questions and postponements, so that the treaty was not signed till Oct. 24, 1867, and not submitted to the Senate till December, and the vote of the islanders was not communicated till Jan. 17, 1868. Although in December, 1867, when the treaty was referred, Mr. Sumner promptly requested the papers from the state department, they were not forthcoming for seven weeks; and when they had been printed and were available for use, the time fixed by the treaty for ratification(Feb. 24, 1868) had expired, and an extension of time became necessary. So sluggish were the Dane