New York, December 28, 1861.
A Petition.
After I had sealed the large letter of this date to you, my
dear friend, I read the paper of to-day more carefully, and must needs add this
fervent petition — of a single man, to be sure — to the chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, namely, — that should the Trent affair be settled
by sense and reason, he, the said chairman, will move heaven and earth, that it
be not done without settling a principle. Let us have that, at least, for all
the trouble and all the expense which England doubtless has already incurred in
the premises. Let some portion, at least, of that poisonous question, Search
and Visit, be settled, — what may be done, and what may not. I know you have
thought of all this; but I could not help addressing this petition to you, —
and I shall ever pray, &c, &c
SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and
Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 325-6
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