73/109 Negotiations would seem to follow, and for that step I think the Cabinet is not prepared. However we shall soon meet to discuss this very topic" _( Ibid.)_] [Footnote 783: Palmerston MS. Appended to the Memorandum were the texts of the emancipation proclamation, Seward's circular letter of September 22, and an extract from the _National Intelligencer_ of September 26, giving Lincoln's answer to Chicago abolitionists.] [Footnote 784: Morley, _Gladstone_, II, 80, narrates the "tradition." Walpole, _Twenty-five Years_, II, 57, states it as a fact. Also _Education of Henry Adams_, pp. |