The British Empire And the United States; a Review of Their Relations During the Century of Peace Following the Treaty of Ghent
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Lord Stanley, the foreign sec- retary, avowed a willingness to submit to an arbiter the question whether the British Gov- ernment was so far responsible for the depreda- tions of the Alabama as to be bound to pay the claims of those whose property was destroyed by the cruiser. He declined absolutely, how- ever, to include in submission to the arbiter the question as to whether the recognition of the Confederacy as a belligerent on May 13, 1861, was justifiable. As Seward was tenacious on this p...oint and insisted that the conduct of Great Britain as a whole should go into the determination of her responsibility for the cruisers, arbitration failed again to be adopted as the way out of the difficulties. To the anxiety of the British cabinet to reach a settlement was added in 1867 a growing eagerness on the part of Secretary Seward to make such a settlement the capstone of his long public service, now approaching its end. Stimulated by these forces, diplomacy overcame 242 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR the obstacles that had seemed insuperable.
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