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 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.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL:
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.
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-
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.
SELECTIONS FROM DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE:
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
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-
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.
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
-Juarez - Mr. Campbell — Intercession for Maximilian - Mr. Johnson, Minister to England Instructions - Unsettled Questions Considered - Naturalization Serious Complaints - The Irish - The Alabama Claims A Joint Commission.
OCCASIONAL SPEECHES AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS:
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
Lincoln Assassination, 1865 tion
and the Duty, 1868 teenth Amendment - A Hopeful View - Alaska -
- 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.
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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