Capitolo 90
The choice of Yancey was particularly improper, for him it was at least
known to the foreign countries as the extreme fire-eating Southern orator, demanding for
ten past of years that Southern action in defense of rights of states and
"Affairs" Southern that the South was finally, now, attempting[132].
Yancey and Rost, starting on their trip March 16, arrived London
April 29[133]. In the meantime in this same month of April, the conditions in
America, so along confused and uncertain, you/he/she had been quickly clarifying.
The South, first than the north you/he/she had come to a definite policy, for
while during January and February, to the convention of Montgomery, there
you/he/she had been the uncertainty as to actively applying the doctrinaire right of
secession, in March the party of action had triumphed, and although there
it was still you talk indeed of lectures to the north and commissioners
named, any true anticipation existed of a result of favourable. In the
Northerly, the determination of policy was more slowly developed. Lincoln
you/he/she was not installed reigning up to March 4, and any positive declaration was
first possible. Also after that uncertainty of date prevailed anchor.
Correspondent Europeans were bringing men as Sumner as he/she will leave
the South goes to peace. The Mayor of City of New York was discussing the
the opportunity of a secession separated by that centre financial from
Nation and State likewise--and of setting on as a city "free." Seward, only
Minister of named State, you/he/she was repudiating in official and
deprived discourse some intention to force the strength South of arms[134]. It
it is anybody he/she wonders that men of is British they were greatly to sea on the
American situation.
But on April 13 th 1861, the Stars and Strips that are floating on Strong Sumter
in harbour of Charleston you/he/she had lowered in surrender of a Federal fortitude
under the attack armed with the Confederation of recent-been born. That event drove
street as from magic the uncertainty of the north, and remote the last