1863 – President Lincoln’s message to the Senate addressing attempts to possible terminate the American Civil War
Washington, DC: 1863. Wraps. Lincoln, Abraham. Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, correspondence on the subjects of mediation, arbitration, or other measures looking to the termination of the existing civil war. 37th Congress, 3d Session. Ex. Doc., No. 38. Washington, D. C.: 1863.
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This pamphlet contains transcripts of diplomatic correspondence forwarded by President Lincoln from and to Secretary of State William H. Seward regarding attempts to negotiate peace via diplomacy through France.
. Very good. Item #010765The Lincoln administration and Secretary of State William H. Seward were aware diplomatic maneuvers by the Confederacy with France. The letters and papers included in this pamphlet make it clear to French Minister in Washington, Henri Mercier, and the U.S. Minister to France, William L. Dayton, that the U.S. would interpret any foreign recognition of the Confederacy as an act of war. Furthermore, crucial Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863 thoroughly undermined any European case for Confederate viability, prompting Napoleon III to shift his focus entirely to his intervention in Mexico..
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