...Seward W. Livermore Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 "Deserving Democrats The Foreign Service Under Woodrow Wilson Seward W. Livermore I When Woodrow Wilson entered the White House in March, 1913, the foreign service had been operating on a career basis for about seven years...

... who, more than any other, determined the policy of this more conservative element, was William H. Seward. He was firm in the belief that the attitude of the more radical wing of the party was calculated to exasperate the people of the South, and he was especially active in urging the adoption...

... President. The im­ pudence of Stanton, Secretary of War, formerly a Democrat, has long been known. The meddling of Seward, the ex-Whig and Secretary of State, in the early months of the administration has been exposed in the history of Mr. Rhodes; but the extent of his political manipulations...

.... Stephens, hut did not fail to ob­ serve his stature. When they met at the Hampton Roads Conference, Stephens had protected his frail body with a profusion of overcoats. When he had taken them all off, Lin­ coln remarked to Seward, That is the largest shucking for so small a nubbin that I ever saw. Even...

.... In a dispatch from Turin, August 19, 1861, George Perkins Marsh, who had just arrived as American minister, informed Seward, the Secretary of State, that he received daily applications, both orally and by letter, for employment in the United States army. The applicants were principally Italians, but there were...

... for the eventual armed conquest of the West. It remained for William H. Seward, then Governor of New York, to precipitate unintentionally the latent anti-Catholicism into militant activity. In his gubernatorial message of 1840 Seward advocated that state funds be allotted to schools wherein the children...

... is side-tracked and though it maintains much of its trade, it is no longer a rival of Charleston. We doubt whether the federal government can bring back George­ town s importance by the jetty it is building in the bay to overcome the troublesome sand bar. About 1820 my great-grandfather, Amos Seward...

... and places belong­ ing to the Government, one of the latest being F. E. Chad­ wick s Causes of the Civil War (American Nation Series). Seward s egotism, presumption, and sanguine expectation dur­ ing the first month of Lincoln s administration have been used rather effectually to vindicate Lincoln...

...), while he taught history at Harvard. Rice ran a number of articles on the Civil War, one of which was the Diary. He died in 1889, leaving no clue to its authorship. The Diary is full of interesting passages about Lincoln, although Seward, with whom the Diarist has close relations, is mentioned more...

.... And on April 29, 1860, Lincoln wrote Lyman Trumbull, who had inquired as to his candidacy for the presidency, that he would be entirely frank. The taste is in my mouth a little. While Lincoln had been only a receptive candidate, William H. Seward had been an aggressive one. He confidently believed...

... characteristic of him than this same campaign of Fort Sumter. In it he manifested to the whole world for the first time that patient sagacity, that devious acuteness, that salient gift which Seward, his intimate, characterized as a cunning amounting to genius, that were as fortunate for those whom he...

... practically over and its legacy of difficulties not to mention the bitterness created by Lincoln s assassination was sure to result in the development of a policy very different from that forshadowed in the third and fourth years of the struggle. Seward, however, early won over the president to his own broad...

... practically over and its legacy of difficulties not to mention the bitterness created by Lincoln s assassination was sure to result in the development of a policy very different from that forshadowed in the third and fourth years of the struggle. Seward, however, early won over the president to his own broad...

... for Greeley s journalistic menagerie and finally was let go. At last, with the Civil War threatening, Senator Sumner secured a place for the penniless exile in the State Department under Seward. The curtain was about to rise on events which might have led Gurowski onto the stage of history. After twelve years...

... federations instead of one. 13 Shortly before Mackay left England to begin his duties as war correspondent, the Slidell and Mason affair, which threatened war between Great Britain and the United States, occurred. The English journalist wrote Secretary Seward, whom he had met on his lecture tour in America...

... A. Hurlbut to Charleston is a familiar incident of the Fort Sumter crisis. An old friend and political associate of the presi­ dent, Hurlbut had been born and educated in that citadel of secessionism and seemed well qualified to test the theory of Secretary of State William H. Seward that unionism...

... G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (New York, 1967), pp. 306-07. 164 The South Atlantic Quarterly for England, as the Scotia, bearing Lyons and his nephew passed in New York harbor.11 Edward s first weeks in Washington were happily busy. Henry was still there, making a recovery from his illness...

... was committed to what he called a defensive policy of collecting the tariff and perhaps even reinforcing the forts or recovering those that had been seized. He categorically rejected Seward s proposal to aban­ don Fort Sumter, while holding Fort Pickens. When he dispatched the relief expedition to Sumter...

... s visit to Raleigh, North Carolina, to assist in the dedication of a monument to his father, Jacob Johnson. On this trip, the only visit he made into the South during his presidency, Johnson was accompanied by Secretary of State Seward and Postmaster General Randall. The presidential party left...

...-one days. Such a document was obviously important, for the diarist was on intimate terms with many of the leading men of that critical time. He was the recipient of much confidential information, and Doug­ las, Seward, Stanton, and even Lincoln sought his advice and active co­ operation. The diary...