XXV.
"Correspondence on Civil War in the United States," No.48.

The "extract" in question consists of two short paragraphs only, printed, without any indication of important elisions, in each of the paragraphs.

] [Footnote 218: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.174.

] [Footnote 219: Lutz, "Notes." The source of Schleiden's information is not given in his despatch.

He was intimate with many persons closely in touch with events, especially with Sumner, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and with Blair, a member of the Cabinet.] [Footnote 220: _Ibid._, Schleiden to Republic of Bremen, May 27, 1861.] [Footnote 221: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.