Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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party of gentlemen, among them LordClarence Paget, of the Admiralty. On returning from this dinner he foundMr. Torrens waiting tor him at his hotel, who, having arranged with EarlRussell to receive him, directed that Mr. Weed should drive to PembrokeLodge, Richmond Hill, the Earls country seat, next morning at elevenoclock. Mr. WTeed found the minister quite alone, and was treated withextreme courtesy. But conversation was at first very much embarrassed bythe Earls evident belief that the Northerners were the aggressors in America.After noting the temper of his host, Mr. Weed used every endeavor tosoften his resentment at the insult to the English flag, as he called thecapture of Mason and Slidell, and reminded him, in a gentle and cautiousmanner that, in the impressment of American seamen, our governmentsubmitted to more than six thousand violations of its flag, and waitedthree years before resorting to war—in 1812. The Earl listened with sur- THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY 13
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14 THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY prised interest ; the facts had been sleeping in an unused corner of hismemory for a long period, and springing suddenly into notice, seemedto encumber his speech. He became guarded in his utterances, and ex-pressed a hope that the danger of a collision might be averted by the re-lease of the Confederate Commissioners. Mr. Weed replied that Englishhistory taught that English noblemen had gone from the Tower to theblock for offenses less grave than those which Mason and Slidell hadcommitted against their government. The interview lasted over an hourand a half, when lunch was served, and was more satisfactory in its con-clusion than in its commencement. But the uneasiness of our commis-sioner was in no sense quieted. Sir Henry Holland, the eminent physician of the Queens household,visited Mr. Weed and his daughter at their hotel nearly every morning,and in his conversations with them made himself familiar with the Ameri-can situation, and, as he we

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