Identifier: cycleofadamslett5717ford (find matches)
Title: A cycle of Adams letters, 1861-1865
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941, ed Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886 Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
Subjects: Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886 Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams family
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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l different to raise it. In otherwords, what ought to have been a great question in-volving a broad examination of the interests of allEurope, is to be dwarfed into a tussle for the loavesand fishes of office. There will be some good speakingon both sides, but the present expectation is that theMinistry will scrape through by a small majority andDenmark will be left to its fate. Should it so turnout, there will not be likely to be anything more donethis year of that sort, and the Ministry will tide overto 1865. So far as this result affects the interests of America, Ido not think anything more could be desired. AlthoughI have little idea that the other party, however muchit may sympathise with the rebels, will adopt anysubstantially different course towards us, if it shouldcome in, there would be a change more or less markedin the personal relations already formed, and with itmight follow a little more of friction in the movementon the two sides. I incline to think it best to let well
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LORD PALMERSTON 1864.) A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS 161 enough alone. For myself I have jogged on with thepresent set more than three years, and if to that Ishould be able to add the fourth, perhaps at the end ofthat period they and I might be quitting together. Atthe age of Lord Palmerston, it would not surprise meif he should not outlive the Parliament. In that case,the chances would be that Lord Derby would come inwithout any serious conflict at the elections. Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr. London, July 1, 1864 The crisis has also passed here. The Ministry haveannounced that war would be inconvenient; that Amer-ica is too formidable a power to have in the rear; thatGermany is a bully, and Denmark a little fool; thatthe blame all belongs to France, and is owing to thehatred of Russia to England; that when the war is overand Denmark destroyed, Palmerston will call Parlia-ment to know whether to send the channel fleet to theBaltic; that in short everything is in a muddle andno

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