Sewards Little Bell — and Its Victims

"THE LITTLE BELL," 1861–65.
"My Lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio; I can touch a bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen of New York; and no power on earth, except that of the President, can release them. Can the Queen of England do so much?" Secretary Seward to Lord Lyons Courtesy of the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum