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70 major portion of the globe, and conducted in such patiently straightforward manner as to give him the confidence of all parties in France.

About midnight, on the 4th of September, 1870, when the streets were still full of the raging populace, a man appeared at the door of the Minister's residence on the Avenue Montaigne. It was the butler of Prince Murat, of the royal house of Napoleon. He presented the compliments of the Prince, and produced a bag of gold, for all the world as in an Arabian Nights' tale. He requested that the American take care of it for him through the whirlwind, as Morris had done for King Louis before him.

And at the same time, Jules Favre, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the National Council, was consulting him daily upon the game to be played, and exhorting him in his own private capacity to fix up some kind of peace with the school of blood and iron.

Three days after the Revolution he officially recognized the Republic on behalf of the