46/69 Bunch in reporting to Lyons, also used the word "negotiation."] [Footnote 351: When Davis proclaimed privateering Bunch had thought this indicated a "low morality" and that Southern privateers would be in reality pirates. F.O., Am., Vol.763.Inclosure in No.162.Bunch to Russell, April 18, 1861.] [Footnote 352: Bancroft's account, _Seward_, II, pp. 197-203, states that Pickens was absent from Charleston. Bunch's account privately was that he and Belligny thought Pickens "totally unfit to be intrusted with anything in which judgment and discretion are at all necessary." (Lyons Papers. |