This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Confederacy. Desps. Aus., No. 34, Sept. 21, 1863; Dip. Cor. 1865-6, vol. 3, pp. 784-86. 9 1 Instrs. Aus., p. 193. No. 41 of Sept. 11; lb., No. 45, Oct. 9, 1863--copies of which were sent by Seward to the American ministers at Paris, Madrid and Brussels. The Nation, Jan. 5, 1882 and Jan. 30.1896. tbe ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Confederacy. Desps. Aus., No. 34, Sept. 21, 1863; Dip. Cor. 1865-6, vol. 3, pp. 784-86. 9 1 Instrs. Aus., p. 193. No. 41 of Sept. 11; lb., No. 45, Oct. 9, 1863--copies of which were sent by Seward to the American ministers at Paris, Madrid and Brussels. The Nation, Jan. 5, 1882 and Jan. 30.1896. tbe keeping of her own people, and still maintaining kind relations with the Juarez government in the face of its misfortunes and its increasing weakness, and not expecting an easy and permanent establishment of monarchy in Mexico, when he received Lhuys' intimation that the recognition of the proposed empire by the United States would hasten the withdrawal of the French troops he declined to accede to the proposal (preferring to err on the side of strict neutrality in marked contrast to the authorities at Richmond who--bold and inventive in their political expedients--on January 7, 1864, appointed Preston envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the government of Maximilian with the vain hope of new conditions or complications which would enable him to secure some sort of recognition.io At the beginning of 1864, there was considerable popular agitation in favor of a more aggressive policy against the French in Mexico. Romero and ardent spirits in Congress were disappointed that Lincoln entered into no discussion of the Monroe doctrine in his annual message of December, 1863, and thought that Seward had not been vigilant enough. Romero, at a dinner in New York (on December 16) expressed his surprise that Napoleon, whose plans were aimed against the United States as well as against Mexico, had been allowed to collect his large army and navy in the gulf "without any remonstrance, without any protest, or even without any demonstration...
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