The result of the election in Connecticut yesterday is
gratifying. Buckingham is reflected Governor by three thousand majority.
The President has not returned from the Rappahannock. There
was consequently no Cabinet-meeting.
Consul Dudley at Liverpool writes that he is instituting
legal proceedings in the English courts against some of the vessels which the
Rebels, aided by English capital, are fitting out, but meets with
discouragement or has no encouragement in unexpected quarters. Wrote Mr. Seward
that the zeal of Dudley should be commended, and unless very decided measures
are taken, and strong representations made, we shall be involved in difficulty.
John Bull must understand that whilst we deprecate war, we don't fear him and
shall not passively submit to outrage and aggression. A loan of fifteen million
dollars has recently been made to the Rebels by English capitalists, which
would never have been consummated had the English officials disapproved. With
these means, which the Englishmen will ultimately lose, the Rebels can purchase
vessels, ordnance, munitions, and prolong the war. Mercenary England will be
benefited if our commerce is destroyed, and our country be weakened and
exhausted. Sumner thinks the alliance with slavery will be so unpopular with
the English people as to restrain the Government, but confesses he begins to
have fearful misgivings.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 262-3
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