Category Archives: Foreign Relations

Like Eating Fish on Friday?

Posted on February 1, 2013 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this week the Dispatch reported on an editorial in The Times of London that compared slavery with some practices of Roman Catholicism – the Bible might frown on some of the activities of each but does not … Continue reading →

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“sublime Christian heroism”

Posted on January 23, 2013 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this week (January 19, 1863) President Lincoln responded to the working-men of Manchester, England, who had written him on New Year’s Eve to commend him for his Emancipation Proclamation and to encourage him to continue the work … Continue reading →

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Just us and the Yankees

Posted on November 2, 2012 by SUMPTER

Richmond Rhetoric: don’t have false confidence in foreign intervention Recently The Civil War 150th Blog posted that in October 1862 France’s Napoleon III proposed that European powers intervene in the Civil War with diplomacy – getting both North and South … Continue reading →

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Intervene for “Southern Freedom”

Posted on July 18, 2012 by SUMPTER

And to end Europe’s cotton famine A couple posts ago a member of the 50th New York Engineers worried about foreign intervention in America’s Civil War. He urged men to volunteer right away so the rebellion could be put down … Continue reading →

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Ghent Aid

Posted on May 19, 2012 by SUMPTER

Fundraising Concerts for Beleaguered Textile Workers Like the Lancashire Cotton Famine the American Civil War was disrupting cotton-based business in Belgium. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch May 19, 1862: Destitution of the Artisans of Belgium –The Belgian Minister of War … Continue reading →

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Shanghaied at the Falls?

Posted on February 11, 2012 by SUMPTER

A Canadian newspaper is concerned about reports that 1) a Union officer crossed into Canada to try to force a deserter back to the U.S. and that 2) a couple Canadian/British soldiers went to the U.S. side of the river, … Continue reading →

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A Little Less Liberty in Liverpool

Posted on November 16, 2011 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times November 16, 1861: AMERICAN POLITICAL SPIES IN ENGLAND.; THE GRIEVANCE NOT TO BE BORNE. From the Liverpool Mercury. We had hitherto supposed that Russia was the chief country where political espionage was recognized as an institution, … Continue reading →

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