Fortunately, my friend Mr.
Charles Sumner, who is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and has really a kind of veto on the acts of Seward, is a very peaceable and safe man." _( ibid._, p.

386, to Lieut.-Col.
Fitzmayer, Dec.

3, 1861.) It is interesting that Canadian opinion regarded the _Times_ as the great cause of American ill-will toward Britain.

A letter to Gait asserted that the "war talk" was all a "farce" (J.H.Pope to Gait, Dec.

26, 1861) and the Toronto _Globe_ attacked the _Times_ for the creation of bad feeling.