{"id":11862,"date":"2021-06-18T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:38:09","slug":"to-baron-lionel-de-rothchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/to-baron-lionel-de-rothchild\/","title":{"rendered":"To Baron LIONEL de ROTHCHILD, &#8220;&#8230;there is a firm and unalterable determination not to allow a separation of this Union.&#8221;&#8211;August Belmont, DNC Chairman."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">New York, June 18, 1861<\/p>\n<p>While I was in Washington I had a two hours&#8217; interview with our Secretary of State. Mr. Seward is clear in the position which he has taken with reference to the rebellion and the attitude into which the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, by any European government, will place the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In that position the people will uphold our government at all hazards. There is no <em>irritation <\/em>of feeling on the part of the intelligent portion of our people against England, our papers, with one or two exceptions, treat the question very dispassionately, but there is <em>a firm and unalterable determination not to allow a separation of this Union, <\/em>whatever blood and treasure it may cost to conquer a peace and a reconstruction of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London New York, June 18, 1861 While I was in Washington I had a two hours&#8217; interview with our Secretary of State. Mr. Seward is clear in the position which he has taken with reference to the rebellion and the attitude into which the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, by any European government, will place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-few-letters-and-speeches-of-the-late-civil-war-by-august-belmont"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/belmont.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}