The magazine of American history with notes and queries (1877) (14596942039)

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Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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edy had declined because of imperative businessengagements. Mr. Seward requested Mr. Weed to suggest two suitablepersons to fill the vacancies, and he named Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston,and Thomas Ewing, of Ohio. Neither of those gentlemen, however, couldbe prevailed upon to accept the delicate and important mission. Arch-bishop Hughes was urged to accept, as it was thought he might undo thework of the Bishop of Charleston who had confused the mind of the Pope ;but he was not in perfect health, and in a matter of such moment wouldonly consent to the appointment on condition that Thurlow Weed wouldgo with him as his colleague. This proposition Mr. Weed at first emphat-ically declined, but the strongest arguments were brought to bear uponthe great politician, and he reluctantly assented. The three commission-ers—Bishop Mcllvaine having accepted—were duly appointed a few daysbefore the exploit of Commodore Wilkes, and they sailed, Mr. Weed ac- THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY 1 I
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RECEPTION HALL OR MIDDLE PARLOR OF THURLOW WEEDS HOME. (Fro7>i a photograph by Miss Catharine Weed Barnes^) companied by his daughter, Miss Harriet Weed, about the same time thatMason and Slidell were captured. A cyclone of momentous and startling events followed Mr. Weedsarrival in Paris, where he was met by John Bigelow, and Mr. Sanford thenminister to Belgium. These gentlemen sought to impress the unwelcometruth upon his mind, which he was slow to believe, that the intelligentclasses among the French sympathized with the Southern Confederacy.News came by a steamer, following within a few hours of the one on which 12 THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY Mr. Weed was a passenger, of the capture of the Confederate commission-ers. The excitement over it was intense. In England there was one uni-versal and indignant war cry. After brief but earnest consultations withMinister Dayton, Archbishop Hughes, General Scott, and John Bigelow,Mr. Weed hastened to join Bishop Mcllvaine in Englan

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