85/98 Adams' letter of December 3 was received on December 21; Dayton's of December 3, on the 24th.] [Footnote 472: Much ink has flowed to prove that Lincoln's was the wise view, seeing from the first the necessity of giving up Mason and Slidell, and that he overrode Seward, e.g., Welles, _Lincoln and Seward_, and Harris, _The Trent Affair_. 522-24, and Bancroft, _Seward_, II, pp. Yet the general contemporary suspicion of Seward's "anti-British policy," even in Washington, is shown by a despatch sent by Schleiden to the Senate of Bremen. |