early day publish an edition of the "Diplomatic Correspondence of 1861-9" for the use of coming generations.

The DIARY, OR NOTES ON THE WAR, in this volume, is made from the Diplomatic Correspondence, being those portions of Mr. Seward's almost daily despatches to our Ministers abroad, designed to give them authentic annals of the progress of the war. views given were usually those also of the Executive.

The

The SELECTIONS FROM DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE embrace ninety-eight of Mr. Seward's despatches, selected with the desire of giving as fair and as full a view as possible of Mr. Seward's philosophy; as well as a history of the diplomatic relations of the country during the war. The Trent affair, the officious interference of France and England in the forms of recognition and mediation, the rebel cruisers, the Alabama claims, the invasion of Mexico by France, are among the subjects quite fully presented in the "Selections." Questions of international law are discussed.

Under the head of OCCASIONAL SPEECHES and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS the remainder of the volume partakes more of a domestic character. Mr. Seward's attention was not wholly devoted to foreign affairs. His public speeches made both before and after his retirement from office, are as interesting as they are pertinent. Many of them, in their familiar style, serve to show the cheerful tone and the great versatility of his mind. However impromptu some of them may appear, none of them will be found lacking in wise and patriotic counsel.

DOCUMENTS and PAPERS, identified with our country's history, emanating from, or bearing the name of Mr. Seward, fill the concluding pages of the volume.

WASHINGTON, D. C.,
June 1, 1883.

THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

THE DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

MEMOIR.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL:

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Mr. Seward, Secretary of State - Frederick W. Seward, Assistant - William
Hunter, Second Assistant - Officers, Clerks and Subordinates of the Department of
State Minister and Consuls - Despondency of Ministers and Friends Abroad —
Mr. Seward Never Despairs - A Similar Feeling in 1776 — John Adams- Treaties,
Large Number and Important — Naturalization — Russia — China — Isthmus Canal
Rebel Emissaries - Memorandum- Fort Sumter A Cabinet Opinion - Napo-
leon Threatens to Interfere - An Unofficial Mission to Europe - Mr. Seward's Posi-
tion in the Cabinet and in Politics - W. W. Seaton's Interview-Pro-Slavery In-
fluences Eradicated — Emancipation in District of Columbia—The Trent Affair-
Dangers Averted Mr. Seward's Wise Diplomacy - Treaty for Suppression of Slave
Trade Its Success - New Orleans Under General Butler, a Provisional Court of
Justice Instituted - Emancipation Proclamation of September, 1862- Amend-
ments Suggested by Mr. Seward Adopted in Cabinet - Proclamation of January 1,
1863- Resignation Offered Senatorial Caucus Presidential Election of 1864 —
Alabama Claims Instituted - Mediation Offered and Sought in Rebel Interest — Ex-
tradition Slave Traders - Arguelles The Assassination and Calamities of 1865
Tributes of the Nations - Remarkable Thanksgiving Proclamation - Impeachment
William M. Evarts - Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments - Reconstruction
Alaska- Immigration - The Monroe Doctrine - Mexico - France - Presiden-

tial Election of 1868-Speeches Voyage to West Indies - Annexation of San

Domingo and Danish Islands - Treaty with China - Private life - Visits Alaska,

Pacific Coast, and Mexico 1869 Journey Round the World - 1870-1 - Auto-

biography - Book of Travels - Interoceanic Canal Treaties — Nicaragua - Da-

rien - Colombia - Intercontinental Telegraph - Russian Telegraph — Atlantic Ca-

ble Mr. Seward's Death, October 10, 1872 - Funeral - Tomb - Inscription -

The Legislature of New York, Ceremonies, 1873 - Charles Francis Adams - John

A. Dix - Eulogies - Statue in New York City -- Presentation Ceremonies, 1876 —

Conclusion.

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Sedition Shows Itself— Insurrectionary Movements - Fort Sumter - No Idea of a
Dissolution of the Union - Bull Run - Panic - Manassas - Effect in Europe - A
Lesson - Captain Wilkes Boards a British Steamer The Trent Affair - Diplo-
macy Vigor of our Government - 1862 Campaigns The French in Mexico -
Slaves Emancipated by our Armies - An Emancipating Crusade - Success in the
West-Burnside and Pope's Victories - Earl Russell's Opinion - Slave Trade
Treaty - Lord Lyons-Important Strokes in the West - Hostile Attitude of Eng-

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land — Blockade Successful — Army Movements and Successes - Fremont, Banks,
McClellan and Sherman - Magnitude of Union Forces - Corinth and Richmond
Capture of New Orleans Effect on France and England - Chickahominy Farra-
gut, Halleck, Goldsborough- Seven Days' Battles - General Butler in New Orleans
- Military Situation — Large Preparations Threatening Action of Great Britain
- Antietam Foreign Intervention Rejected - War on the Ocean Contemplated—
Recognition Threatened - Alabama Claims Mooted, Nov., 1862 - Armies Advan-
cing, Slavery Retreating — Grant, Rosecrans, Curtis - Garibaldi — Proclamation of
Freedom 1863 – Policy Unchangeable - Burnside and Hooker's Repulses - Sher-
man at Vicksburg — Congress Diligent — Confidence Reviving — European Credu!-
ity-Neutrality Laws Persistently Violated by Great Britain Gettysburg —
Vicksburg Charleston - General Meade - Draft Riots- The Situation - Re-
sumé- Negro Soldiers - Efforts to Induce British Government to Prevent Sailing
of "Iron Rams"- Our Prospects, Contrasted with those of Europe - Will soon be
no Slavery to Contend with - Absurdity of Building a State on Human Bondage
Mediation of England -Value of Slaves- - A New Campaign - Navy Increasing
Farragut Recognition - Emigration from the South to the Territories - Public
Impatience Amendment of Constitution - General Grant in Command - General
Banks on the Mississippi - Mexico. The Wilderness-Chancellorsville - General
Butler-Eighth Day of very heavy Fighting - General Sherman in Georgia
General Sheridan - General Averill - Red River - Army of the Potomac - Severe
Conflicts - General Sigel — General Hunter — General Canby — Assaults on Peters-
burg-Congress - Destruction of the Alabama by the Kearsarge― Comments
Invasion of Maryland - General Wadsworth - The Capital Threatened — 6th and
19th Corps - Siege of Petersburg and Richmond — Rebel Emissaries on the Canada
border Election of 1864 - Atlanta - General Logan - Mr. Seward Visits Gen-
eral Grant - Malvern Hill -- General Hancock — Mobile - Admiral Farragut
Captain Winslow Rumors Cabinet - Armistices - Enlistments Numerous
Shenandoah Valley - Public Credit Good Loans Freely Taken - The Atlantic.
Cable Completed — Brighter Prospects — The Rebel Steamer Georgia Captured —
Winchester-General Sheridan - Gold Falls 30 per cent. - Staunton - Jefferson
Davis - General Meade - Elections - Steamers Chesapeake, Philo Parsons, and
Island Queen - St. Albans Raid — Canadian Conduct — Notice to Great Britain —
Sheridan's Ride - Cedar Creek - General Rosecrans - Rebel Government Consid-
ering emancipation and Arming of Negroes - General Thomas - The Rebel Florida
Sunk Union policy as to Slavery Counter Revolution Considered - Rebel In-
trigues Army Successes- Downfall of Slavery Manifest - Savannah-Admiral
Porter-Fort Fisher-Henry S. Foote Francis P. Blair, Senior, Visits Rich-
mond, Results Interviews, Conferences - Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, Rebel
Commissioners-Amendment of the Constitution — General Terry — Admiral Dahl-
gren General Schofield Army of the Potomac - Rebel Debt Delusion-Mili
tary Convention, Grant and Lee - Overtures - General Stoneman - Richmond
Falls - General Weitzel - Flight — Surrender — Collapse — Assassination of Pres-
ident Lincoln Attempt on Secretary Seward Mr. Frederick W. Seward
Wounded Mr. Hunter Mr. Adams - Passports for Rebels - Pardons.

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Secretary Black's View of the Late Election - Mr. Seward's Instructions to Bu-
chanan's Ministers-The Paris Declaration - Privateering - Maritime War — In-
structions to Mr. Judd - Nature of the Union - Mr. Sanford - - Counteracting the

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Efforts of Rebel Agents in Europe- Mr. Sanford's Selection as Minister to Brus-
sels-Free Trade - The New Tariff — Rebel Arguments in Europe - Mr. Adams
-Exhaustive View of the Situation-The late Election - Buchanan's Adminis
tration Union and Disunion Contrasted
- A Physical Impossibility - The Presi-
dent's View and Duty-Loyalty and Diligence of Mr. Adams - His Grandfather,
John Adams - Recognition - Intervention - War Position of Great Britain-
Civilization. Mr. Burlingame- Austria — Vienna - The Union - Reply to Rebel
Arguments-Lincoln's Administration Forbearance and Conciliation -
Mr. Day-
ton — France — Misunderstanding by the Imperial Government —The Agents of
the Confederacy in Paris- An Elaborate Statement of the Case - Unanswerable
Arguments-The Crisis - Fort Sumter Attacked - Surrender - Slavery Consid-
ered - A Revolution - Foreign Interference- Extent, Progress, and Termination
of the War Mr. King-Rome - Sedition and Aliens - Mr. Wood- Denmark-

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The Cabinet a Unit - Mr Dayton - France - Our Policy - - Mr. Adams - Great
Britain A Permanent Policy Developed — Mr. Clay — Russia - Slavery the Cause
of the War — Mr. Marsh — Italy - The Union a Necessity — Mr. Fogg― Switzer-
land
Recognition to be Prevented - Mr. Dayton- France - Mr. Pike - Nether-
lands - Mr. Adams-Great Britain - Mediation Inadmissible Mr. Dickinson -
Nicaragua Foreign Intervention Mr. Adams- The Queen's Proclamation
France Mediation Declined - The United States Sovereign- Mr.

Mr. Dayton

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Adams - British Views Inadmissible - Foreign War - The Blockade - Mr Adams
- Lord John Russell - Reservation - Congress of Paris -The Trent Affair -- Inter- ·
national Law - Lord Lyons - Captain Wilkes- Mr. Mercier- Mr. Thouvenel ·
Mr. Hulseman - Mr. Motley Austria - An Emancipating Crusade - Mr. Wood
-Despondency Faith Mr. Sanford - Belgium-Slavery and Cotton - Re-
view of the Situation - Foreign Intervention - Mr. Dayton - French Scepticism-
Intervention Slavery and Colonization Mr. Adams- Slavery Discussed - In-
tervention Considered- - Mr. Cameron - Foreign and Domestic Affairs- - Procla-
mation of September, 1862 Emancipation - Immigration Limit to Civil War
- Volunteers in Excess- Mr. Dayton Details of a Conspiracy - The Situation
Reviewed-Emancipation Policy Mr. Pike The Higher Law - The Slavery
Question the experimentum crucis of Politics. Proclamation of January 1, 1863
France and the Union — Mediation -- Sympathy of British Artizans · Russia ·
Mr. Dayton Our Policy of Non-Intervention - The British Courts - The Alex-
andra British Aggressions Indemnities Review - Mr. Marsh Italy - Mr.
Adams A Crisis - War with Great Britain - Alliance of France and England -
Consequences Serious Topics Di-cussed · - Mr. Dayton - France and Mexico-
The Emperor - The " Moniteur." Mr. Adams Rebel Cruisers - Earl Russell
- Our Navy The Alabama, 1863 Claims Presented - Maximilian — Mr.
Pike-Negro Emigration - The Conduct of the War, 1864 - The War our own
Affair England and the Irish Religion - Mr. Bigelow - France and Mexico —
Mr. Adams - Death of the President - Tributes - Montholon- Intervention -
French Views - Monarchy in Mexico - Maximilian Our Views - Mr. Dronyn
de l'Huys Mr. Kilpatrick, Chili- Mr. Wright, Prussia — Naturalization — Mr.
Adams - Alabama Claims - Reply to Lord Stanley - The Rebel Cruisers - Inter-
national Law. The Relations of the United States and Great Britain Reviewed at
Length Mr. Adams - The Alabama Claims — Lord Stanley — A Joint Commis-
sion - A Mixed Commission - Two Commissions Mexico - France - Mr. Camp-
bell Maximilian -- Juarez General Sherman Mr. King Surratt - Diplo
matic Duties Alabama Claims, delay — The Irish People - Maximilian's Capture

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to England Instructions - Unsettled Questions Considered - Naturalization
Serious Complaints - The Irish - The Alabama Claims A Joint Commission.

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Occasional Speeches - The Fall of Vicksburg, July 7, 1863 - The Progress of the
War The Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 18, 1863- The Fall of Atlanta,
September 3, 1864 The Allies of Treason - Politics Perseverance in the
War Election - Auburn, November 7, 1864 - Chicago, London, and Richmond
-Niagara St. Albans The Assurance of Victory - Reëlection of President
President Johnson and his Cabinet

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- Restoration of Union The President's Message The Nervous Man —
Joint Committees Joint Resolutions - The Freedmen's Bureau - The Situation
Reconciliation - The Thir-
Speech at Sitka August 12,
1869 The North Pacific Coast - British Columbia - Our North Pacific States
Speeches in Mexico - Reception of the Chinese Embassy Mr. Burlingame — The
Darien Canal — A Corporation — Peter Cooper - A Visit from Syracuse Friends,
April, 1870 The Destiny of America.

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Proclamation of Emancipation, 1863 - Amendments of Constitution - 1865 - The
"Thirteenth Amendment" - Correspondence with Governors of Reconstructed
States Repudiation of Rebel Debts - Provisional Governors - The Fourteenth
Amendment Fugitive Slaves in 1861 and General McClellan - TREATIES-Nat
uralization Alaska - Chinese Suppression of Slave Trade - Darien - Cabinet
Paper on the Reinforcement of Fort Sumter, the Argument - Governor Hicks-
Rebel Emissaries - John Forsyth - Immigration, Rights of Aliens - The Union
and the Church - A Vindication - Dr. Thompson - The Clerks of the Depart-

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