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Elliot Christopher Cowdin

出版	1861
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=f-nJtAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋On December 6, 1861, Cowdin wrote of Charles Sumner's anti-slavery oration in New York City, and that Cowdin was "not quite ready for emancipation," but was leaning towards Sumner's views on the barbarism of slavery. By March 29, 1862, Cowdin believed that slavery should be destroyed before the South was permitted to rejoin the Union. And on September 12, 1862, he wrote that President Lincoln "means well, but he is not equal to the times." Cowdin supported the raising of "a regiment of colored soldiers," and on August 30, 1866, he expressed support for the ratification of the 14th and 15th amendments. Cowdin participated in the Southern Famine Relief in 1867, and referenced President Andrew Johnson's "bad fix" concerning the Tenure of Office Act. Cowdin was U.S. commissioner for the Paris Exposition in 1867 and subsequently gave lectures on the Exposition. The loose letter as well as two copies in the book referred to Cowdin's ongoing difficulties, 1868-1869, with several business partners, especially Mr. Eckhart.