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policy. In this interview you/he/she had silently agreed that you/he/she would have been best
for Great Britain to attend the arrival of Adams before taking some defined
action, or so at least Dallas it understood Russell--although the second
later it denied that some pawn of delay was given. There is without doubt,
however, that in the mind of Russell, anything that is probable that he tells Dallas the,
separation in America was a finished fact and the hope of Gran
Britain was centred on the idea of a peaceful separation.
Above to and included April 1, indeed Lyons was bringing that no
position defined was still maintained by the American Government. To the
same time Russell was continuing his/her instructions to Lyons to recommend
conciliation "but never to unasked[103 of suggestion of obtrude]." He/she anchors Russell it was
not completely unperturbed from the relationships of the quarrelsome attitude of Seward,
for in a private letter of the same date as the precedent, he wrote to
Lyons, "I count on Your wisdom, patience and the prudence to govern us,
through the dangers of this crisis. If you/he/she can possibly be helped Mr.
To Seward it doesn't have to be permitted to find us in a dispute. I will see the
Southern when they comes, but not officially, and it holds them to a
correct distance[104]." It is an interesting consultation, if this fear
so express some temperament of Seward was not of benefit separate to the
United States to the moment when the Southern Commissioners arrived in
England. The inference would seem to be clear, that despite Lyons'
suggestion to treat well them, the effect on Russell of the attitude of Seward
it was to treat freshly them. Russell was separately worried indeed from
The hostile attitude of Seward.
In the meantime the British press and public, while still uncertain and
separated as to the worths of the conflict it was substantially now an unity
in to accept separation as ending. The _Times_, with judicial ponderosity
declared: "New nationality has been produced after a very short
period of the pregnancy.... and States that a secession now Does you/they have constituted