Volume 2 — INDEX

Aberdeen, Lord, i. 10, 13, 14, 15; ii. 117 note [1]

Acton, Lord, ii. 301

Adams, Brooks, The Seizure of the Laird Rams, cited, ii. 120 note[2], 125 note[1], 147 note[1], 150 note[1]

Adams, Charles Francis, i. 49, 62-3, 80-1; attitude in the early days of the American crisis, 49 and note, 55, 63; appointed American Minister in London, 62, 80-1, 96; impressions of English opinion on the crisis, 96, 97, 98, 107; alarm at Seward's Despatch No. 10, i. 127; attitude of, to the Palmerston-Russell ministry, 170; controversy on General Butler's order, 302-5; reports to Seward on British public meetings on Emancipation Proclamation, ii. 107 and note[3], 223; view of the popular manifestations on Emancipation, 108; view as to decline of British confidence in the South, 184; and the London Confederate States Aid Association, 191, 192; receives deputations of allegiance during rumours before the fall of Savannah, 245 and note[1]; quoted on rumours in Britain of possible reunion and foreign war, ii. 251-2, 253; on effect in England of the Hampton Roads Conference, 253; advice of, to Seward on attitude to be observed to Britain, 253-255; attitude to Seward's complaints of British and Canadian offences, 253-4; comments of, on parliamentary debate and Bright's speech of confidence in Lincoln, 255 and note[1]; on feeling in Britain over Lincoln's assassination and the attempt on Seward, 257, 262-3; receives addresses of sympathy from British organizations, 262-3; and formal declaration of the end of the war, 268; faith of, in ultimate British opinion on the issues in the Civil War, ii. 283; views of, on the political controversy in England as influencing attitude to America 284, 285; advice to Seward on the political position in relation to democracy, 290, 294, 296, 298 note[1]; quoted on the rising of democratic feeling in Britain, 291; disappointed in attitude of British friends of progress, 278, 279, 280; report of, on London mass meeting in favour of the North, 284; and the Trades Unions of London meeting, 292, 294-5; quoted on John Bright, 298; on the attitude of the privileged classes to democracy, 298 note[2], 300; on the influence of American institutions on the political movement in Great Britain, 302 Diplomatic action and views of, in regard to: Alabama case: ii. 35, 120 and note[2], 121, 131 British Foreign Enlistment Act, i. 135, 148-9; ii. 201-2 Bunch controversy, i. 186, 187, 190, 193, 195 Confederate Commissioners: representations on intercourse with, i. 105-6, 107 Confederate Cotton Loan: reported connection with, ii. 161 and note[4]; views on, 179 Confederate Shipbuilding in England: protests against, ii. 118, 128, 131, 137, 143, 145 note[2]; and U.S. Navy Department plan to stop, 130 note[2]; Laird Rams incident, 144, 146, 147 note[1], 150 Cotton: report on British position, ii. 99 Declaration of Paris negotiation: action on proposed convention, i. 141-69 passim; view of American intention, 144, 169; failure of his negotiation, 137, 145-6, 169-71 Gladstone and Lewis speeches, ii. 55 Irish emigrants, enlistment of, ii. 201-2 Lindsay's efforts for mediation, ii. 34-5, 212 Mediation: presents the "servile war" threat against, ii. 18-19, 95; view of England's reply to French proposals on, 71; advantages of an anti-slavery avowal, 98-9 Neutrality Law, See British Foreign Enlistment Act supra Privateering Bill, ii. 122-3, 125, 127; advises against issue of privateers, 131 Proclamation of Neutrality, The: representations on, i. 98-100, 101, 105, 107 and note[2], 300-1; despatch on settlement of peaceful policy, 134; protests against British recognition of belligerency, 159; advice to Seward on, 275 Roebuck's motion: report on, ii. 144 "Servile War" threat, ii. 18-19, 95 and note[4] Slavery: urges Northern declaration on, ii. 98-9; comments on Times criticism of anti-slavery meetings, 108 Southern Ports: plan of collecting duties at, ii. 198 Trent Affair, the: interviewed by Palmerston, i. 208-9; statement on the James Adger, 209-10; suspicion of British policy in, 218; views on public opinion in, 222-3; officially states Wilkes acted without authorization, 226; report on English hope of peaceful settlement, 228, 229; on British opinion after settlement of, 238, 240; on effect of, in Great Britain, 243; view of popular attitude in Britain in the crisis of, ii. 283 Appreciation and criticisms on: Characterized in The Index, ii. 196 Lord Lyons', report on, i. 62-3; opinion on, ii. 71 note[4] Lord Russell's view of his diplomacy, ii. 128 Tory approval of, ii. 197 Otherwise mentioned, i. 1, 2, 129, 198, 263, 274, 276; ii. 31, 100

Adams, C.F., Jun., view of British attitude and the Proclamation of Neutrality, i. 109, 110; view of the delay in his father's journey to England, 112 note; view on Seward's attitude in Declaration of Paris negotiation, 138, 153-6; examination of British action in the negotiation, 154-5; review of the Trent affair, cited, 203 note, et seq. passim; on American feeling over seizure of Mason and Slidell, 218; and the Hotze materials, ii. 154 note

Adams, E.D.: British Interests and Activities in Mexico, cited ii. 117 note[1] "The Point of View of the British Traveller in America," cited, i. 23 note; ii. 274 note[1]

Adams, Henry, i. 138; ii. 292 note[1]; view of, on W.E. Forster, i. 58 note[2]; on British Proclamation of Neutrality, 110; on American exultation in Trent affair, 223; on British attitude in Trent affair, 230; view of Gregory's speech on the blockade, 270; on British view of prospects in the War, 297; on possibility of intervention, ii. 23; on advantage of a Northern declaration on slavery, 23; on the Trades Unions of London meeting, 292 and note[1] 293 "Declaration, The, of Paris," 1861 ... reviewed, 146 et seq., 153; view of Russell's policy in, 146-150, 159; view of Lyons, 147, 150 Education of Henry Adams quoted, i. 149 note[3]; ii. 172 note[2]; cited, ii. 50 note[1]

Adams, John (Second President of the U.S.), i. 62, 81

Adams, John Quincy, i. 11, 20, 62, 81

African Slave Trade, attitude of the South to, i. 85-6; ii. 88; suppression of, international efforts for, i. 8-10; punishment to slave traders in American law, 9; American attitude to right of search, 9, 10, 219; British anti-slavery policy, 31-2; wane of British interest in, 10, 32; ii. 90; Slave Trade Treaty signed, i. 10, 275, 276; ii. 90, 91

Agassiz, L., i. 37 note.

Akroyd, Edward, ii. 193 note.

Alabama, The, ii. 35, 116, 119-120; departure of, from Liverpool, 118; British order to stop departure, 119, 120 and note[2], 133; Russell's private feelings as to, 121, 124; public opinion in Great Britain on, 129-130; Palmerston's defence of Government action on, 134-5; American anger over, 119, 127; measures against, 121-3, 127; New York Chamber of Commerce protest on, 126; claim for damages on account of, 151 note[1]; mentioned, i. 138; ii. 129 note[1], 131, 134, 136, 145, 146

Alexandra, case, The: Seizure of the vessel, ii. 136, 139, 140, 152, 161 note[4]; public approval, 136; law actions on, 136 note[2], 142, 149, 152, 185, 195; American anxiety at Court decision, 143; final result, 196 note[2]

America, Central: British-American disputes in, i. 16, 17

American: Civil War: i. 86, 87 and note[2], 99; British public and official views at the commencement of, 40-60; origins of; American and British views, i. 47-8; efforts at compromise, 49; British official attitude on outbreak of, 73; European opinion of, after duration of three years, ii. 219; compared with the Great War in Europe, 219; British attitude to democracy as determining attitude to the War, i. 77; ii. 303-5; bearing of, on democracy in Great Britain, 299 Union, The: British views of, i. 15; prognostications of its dissolution, 36, 37 War of Independence, i. 2-3, 17; adjustments after the Treaty of Peace, 3; as fostering militant patriotism, 7, 8 note; commercial relations after, 17-18 "War of 1812" i. 4, 7, 18; causes leading to, 5-7; New England opposition to, 7, 18; effect of, on American National unity, 7 See also under United States

Anderson, Major, Northern Commander at Fort Sumter, i. 117

Anderson's Mission, ii. 53 note[3]; reports, ii. 53 and note[2]

Andrews, Governor of Massachusetts, i. 219-20

Anthropological Society of London, ii. 222

Antietam, defeat of Lee by McClellan at, ii. 43, 85, 105; effect of, on Lord Palmerston, 43

Archibald, British Consul at New York, i. 63, 64

Argyll, Duke of, i. 179, 212; anti-slavery attitude of, i. 179, 238; ii. 112; views of, in Trent crisis, i. 212, 215, 229, 238; on calamity of war with America, 215, 238; on Northern determination, ii. 30

Arkansas joins Confederate States, i. 172 Army and Navy Gazette, The, ii. 228, 229; attitude in the conflict, 229-30, 236; on the Presidential election, 235-6, 238; summary of military situation after Atlanta, 243; on "foreign war" rumours, 251; cited or quoted, 68, 166, 232-3, 243. (See also under Russell, W.H.)

Arnold, Matthew, views on the secession, i. 47; on British "superiority," 258; on the rule of aristocracy and growth of democracy, ii. 300

Arnold, The History of the Cotton Famine, ii. 6 note[2], 10, 11; quoted: first effects of the war on the cotton trade, 9-10; cotton operatives' song, 17 note[6]; on the members for Lancashire, 26-7

Ashburton, Lord, i. 13; Ashburton Mission, i. 13

Aspinwall and Forbes, Mission of, in England, ii. 130 note[2]

Atlanta, captured by Sherman, ii. 233-5; effect of, on Northern attitude, 233-4; effect of, on Lincoln's re-election, 235

Atlantic Monthly

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Bagley, Mr., ii. 224

Balch, The Alabama Arbitration, cited, ii. 129 note[1]

Baligny. See Belligny

Bancroft, Frederic, cited, i. 117 note; analysis of Seward's object in Declaration of Paris negotiation, 150-3; view on Russell's aims in, 152 and note[2] Life of Seward, cited or quoted, i. 106 note[1], 118 note, 130 note[3]; 132 note[3], 138, 150-3, 186 notes, 191 note[4], 196 note[1], 200 note[2], 213 note[4], 231 note[3], 280 and note[1], 281; ii. 1-2, 96, 99 note[2], 143 note[3], 253 note[1], 258 note[1]

Banks, Governor, i. 37 note

Baring, ii. 96 note[3]

Bath, Marquis of, ii. 193 note

Beals, Mr., ii. 191

Bedford, Duke of, i. 96 and note[3]

Bee Hive, The, cited, ii. 293 note

Beecher, Henry Ward, ii. 184 and note[3]

Beesly, Professor, speech of, at Trades Unions of London Meeting, ii. 292

Belfast Whig, The, i. 70 note[1]; 231 note

Belligny, French Consul at Charleston, i. 185 note[1], 186, 188, 189, 191 and note[4]

Bell's Weekly Messenger, quoted, ii. 104

Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of State, ii. 5; Mercier's interview with, i. 284, 285; report of, to Slidell on Mercier's visit, 284 note[2]; instructions of, to Slidell offering commercial advantages for French intervention, ii. 24 and note[2]; on idea of Confederate loan, 158-9; recalls Mason, 179; and recognition of the Confederacy, 217; on the attitude of France to the Confederacy, 236 note[2]; plan of offering abolition of slavery in return for recognition, 249; otherwise mentioned, i. 292; ii. 88 note[2], 148, 154 note[1], 213 note[1]

Bentinck, i. 268, 269

Bernard, Montague: Neutrality, The, of Great Britain during the American Civil War, quoted, i., 100 and note[1], 137-8; ii. 118; cited, i. 171 note[1], 245 note[3], 246 note[2], 263 notes; ii. 136 note[2]; on the American representations on the British Proclamation of Neutrality, i. 100; on Declaration of Paris negotiations, 137-8; on the Blockade, 263 and notes "Two Lectures on the Present American War": on recognition, cited, i. 183

Bigelow, John, ii. 71 note[3]: France and the Confederate Navy, cited, ii. 57 note[2] Retrospections of an Active Life, cited, i. 56 note, 217 note[2]; ii. 71 note[3], 88 note[2], 128 note[3], 130 note[2]; Gladstone and the Cotton Loan, 163 note[2]; U.S. stimulation of immigration, 200 note[1]; cited, 229 note[1]; Quoted, ii. 254; advice of, on the political position in Britain; quoted, 290; cited, 295 note[3]

Billault, M., i. 288, 289 and note[1]

Birkbeck, Morris, Letters from Illinois, quoted, i. 25

Birmingham Post, The, i. 70 note[1]; ii. 231 note; letters of S.A. Goddard in support of emancipation in, ii. 108-9

Bishop, Rev. Francis, ii. 224

Bismarck, ii. 203

Black, Judge, American Secretary of State, i. 52, 244

Blackwood, John, political views of, ii. 289

Blackwood's Magazine, ii. 279 note[1]; on cotton and the blockade, 10; on French mediation proposals, 68; on the Emancipation Proclamation, 103; on democracy as cause of the war, 278-9, 281, 289

Blair, member of the United States Cabinet, i, 130 note[1], 231; ii. 85, 251, 252

Blockade of Southern Ports, the: Lincoln's declaration on, i. 83, 89, 90, 92, 111, 121, 122, 244, 245; commencement of, i. 245; method of warning at the port, 245, 246; as involving hardship to British merchants, 245-6; effectiveness of, 252-71 passim; effect on British Trade, 252, 254, 263; effect on Cotton Trade, 262; ii. 8, 9; statistics as to effectiveness, i. 268 note[3] Southern Ports Bill, i. 246 et seq. Stone Boat Fleet Blockade, i. 253 et seq., 269, 302 British attitude to, i. 95, 244, 245, 246, 263 and note[2], 267, 270; ii. 5, 265; Parliamentary debate on, i. 267 et seq.; Gregory's motion 268 et seq.; press attitude, 246; Bright's view, ii. 14, 15 Confederate representations on, i. 265 Napoleon's view of, i. 290

Booth, assassinator of Lincoln, ii. 258, 259, 263

Border States, The: efforts at compromise, i. 49; sympathies in, 173; the "Border State policy" of Lincoln, 173, 176, 272 note[1]; ii. 82; and Confiscation Bill, Lincoln's fears, 82; attitude of, to emancipation, ii. 83, 84, 87; not affected in Proclamation of Emancipation, 86

Bourke, Hon. Robert, ii. 187, 193

Boynton, Rev. C.B., English and French Neutrality, etc., cited and quoted, ii. 225 note[1]

Bright, John, i. 58 note[2], 77; quoted on Times attitude towards the United States, 55 note[3]; view of the Northern attempt at reconquest, 72; views of, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, 108, 110; speech on Trent affair, 221-2; letter to Sumner on Trent affair, influence on Lincoln, 232; speech on Britain's attitude on conclusion of Trent affair, 241-2; view on the war as for abolition, 241; on distress in Lancashire, ii. 13, 14; view of the blockade, 14, 15; on the cotton shortage, 15; and Gladstone's Newcastle speech, 48; view of Emancipation Proclamation, 48 note[2], 105-6, 111-12; on England's support if emancipation an object in the war, 88-9; the escape of the Alabama, 120; at Trades Unions of London meeting, 132-3, 134, 291-3; support of the North, 132, 283-4, 290, 291-295; on the interests of the unenfranchised in the American conflict, 132, 295; on the unfriendly neutrality of the Government, 134; rebuked by Palmerston, 135; trouncing of Roebuck, 172 and note[2]; on Britain's neutrality (Nov., 1863), 184; championship of democratic institutions, i. 221-2; ii. 132-3, 276-7, 282, 283; popularity of, as advocate of Northern cause, 224, 225; influence of, for the North, i. 58 note[2]; ii. 224; Lincoln's pardon of Alfred Rubery in honour of, 225 and note[1]; quoted on feeling of the British Government and people towards United States in Jan., 1865, etc., 247; confidence of, in pacific policy of Lincoln, 255 and note[1]; quoted on the ruling class and democracy, 280; attack on Southern aristocracy by, 290; heads deputation to Adams, 294; eulogy of George Thompson by, 224 note[1] Adams' opinion on, ii. 298; view of, in The Index, ii. 298-9; Laird's view of, ii. 134; Karl Marx's view of, 292 note[1]; Lord Salisbury, quoted on the oratory of, 290 note[1], the Times attack on, 295-6 Otherwise mentioned, i. 69, 179, 289; ii. 68, 69, 132 note[1], 172 note[1], 186, 187, 191, 278, 281. (See also under Morning Star)

British, See also under Great Britain

British emigration to America, i. 23 et seq, 35; effect of American political ideals on, 23, 24, 25, 26

British Foreign Enlistment Act, ii. 116-7, 118; application of, in American crisis, question in Commons, i. 94; Russell's idea of amending, ii. 124, 196; Russell's advice to Palmerston on, 131; debate in Parliament on, 132, 133-4, 135; Forster and the violation of, 133; Government reply to Liverpool shipowners on, 142; Kearsarge incident, 202

British Press. See under names of Papers and under subject headings

British Standard, The, i. 70 note[1]

British travellers' views on America, i. 23 and note, 24, 28, 30; ii. 274-5

Brooks, i. 80

Brougham, i. 94 note[2]; ii. 282

Brougham, Lord, i. 19

Brown, John, raid of, i. 33 note[2]

Browning, Robert, pro-Northern sentiment of, i. 70; on stone-boat blockade, 256; on Slavery a factor in the struggle, 238-9; on British dismay at prospect of war in Trent crisis, 240; mentioned, 228 note[4]

Bruce,--, British Ambassador in Washington, ii. 255 note[4]; report of American intentions against France in Mexico, 255 note[4]; comment of, on Lincoln, Seward and Sumner, 262; warns Russell of probable American demands at end of war, 266, 268; attitude to "piracy" proclamation, 268. Otherwise mentioned, ii. 262, 269.

Brunow, Baron de, Russian Ambassador: on British policy, i. 50-1, 74; interpretation of Russell's "three months" statement, 272 note[1]; report of, on Russell's mediation plan, ii. 45 note[3]; interview of, with Russell on joint mediation offer, 73 note[1]

Bryce, Lord, i. 30; ii. 188 note[3], 274

Buchanan, President, i. 16, 49, 52, 117, 259; ii. 278

Buckingham, James Silk, America, Historical, Statistic and Descriptive, cited, i. 29

Buckley, Victor, ii. 120 note[2]

Bull Run, Northern defeat at, i. 135, 154, 176, 201; as affecting Seward's policy, considered, 154, 155-6; effect of, in Great Britain: press views, 176, 177-8, 179; official views, 178, 179 and note[1]; public opinion, 201

Bullock, Captain J.D., Confederate Agent in Britain, ii. 118, 129, 145; on the proposed use of the Laird rams, 122 note[1], 143; shipbuilding contracts of, ii. 156, 157; Secret Service under the Confederacy, cited, ii. 118, 149 note

Bunch,--, British Consul at Charleston, description of Jockey Club dinner, i. 43; on Southern anti-British sentiment, 44 note[2], ii. 71 note[2]; instructions to, on the secession, i. 53 note[1]; appeal of, to Judge Black on seizure of Federal customs house, 52; characterizations of Southern leaders, 59; view of President Davis, 59; views on the South and secession, 59, 93; characterizations of Southern Commissioners, 63; negotiations of, with the Confederates on Declaration of Paris, 168 note[4], 184-6, 188, 193; attitude of, to the South, 185 and note[4], 103, 195 note[2]; American complaints of, 187, 189, 193-4; recall of exequatur of, 184, 187 et seq., 193, 194-5, 201; defence of his action in the Mure case, 187, 188, 192, 199; subsequent history of, 195 note[2]; view of, as scapegoat, 195 note[2]; on attitude to the Blockade, 252 note[2], 253 note[2], 268; on Southern intentions, 252 note[2]; view of Southern determination, 252 note[2]; on Southern views of England's necessity for cotton, 63, 252 note[2]; ii. 4, 5; on effect of the blockade on Southern cotton industry, 9 note[2]; on burning of Mississippi cotton, 16 note[1], 17 note[4]; on the American system of government as the cause of the Civil War, 278 note[2] British attitude to the controversy over, i. 188-9, 190, 191, 194; French attitude, i. 189, 191 and note[4], 192, 201 note Lyons' views on Bunch controversy, i. 187, 193, 194 and note[1] Russell's views, i. 187, 190, 193, 194 and note[4] Otherwise mentioned, i. 66; ii. 88

Burnley, British Ambassador, report of, on prospective war with America, ii. 254

Butler, General, order to Federal soldiers in New Orleans, i. 302-4, 305; ii. 68; Palmerston and Adams controversy on, i. 302-5; Lord Russell's advice to Palmerston, 303, 304

Cairnes, Professor, ii. 224 note[3]; pamphlet by, on "Slave Power," 112

Caledonian Mercury, The, i. 70 note[1]; ii. 231 note

California, acquisition of, by U.S., i. 15, 16

Callahan,--, Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy, cited, i. 261 note, 289 note[2]; ii. 167 notes, 169 note[4]

Campbell, Lord, i. 271, 292; ii, 28, 77, 169, 172, 193

Canada: Rebellion of 1837 in, i. 4, 109; ii. 117; British fear of American attack on, i. 4; sentiment in, as affected by the American Wars against England, 8 note; suggestions of annexation to Northern States of the U.S., 54-5; "compensation" in, idea in British press, 54-5; and in views of American political leaders, 55; Gladstone's idea regarding, ii. 69-70; military defence of, in Trent crisis, i. 213, 241-2; views in, on Trent affair, 222 note; on British policy and defence, 222 note; view of the Times in, 222 note Free Trade policy and, a Southern premonition as to, i. 22 Reciprocity Treaty of, with U.S., ii. 198, 253-4 Otherwise mentioned, ii. 251, 254, 275

Canning, i. II, 12, 20

Cardwell, ii. 64

Carolina, North, joins Confederate States, i. 172

Carolina, South, secession of, i. 41, 43-44, 55; ii. 3-4; seizes Federal customs at Charleston, i. 52; requests Federal relinquishment of Fort Sumter, 117

"Caroline" affair, The, i. 109

Case, Walter M., James M. Mason--Confederate Diplomat, cited and quoted, i. 261 note; ii. 161 and note[3]

Catacazy, C., and mediation by Russia, ii. 251 note[1]

Cecil, Lord Eustace, ii. 187, 189, 193

Cecil, Lord Robert, supports Gregory's motion on blockade, i. 268; supports Roebuck's motion, ii. 171, 175-6; on Committee of Southern Independence Association, 187, 193

Charleston, S.C.: Sentiment to Great Britain in, i. 43, 44 note; seizure of customs house at, 52; British appeal on question of port dues at, 52, 244; "Stone Boat" blockade of harbour at, 253; evacuation of, ii. 248, 249

Charleston Mercury, "King Cotton" theory of, ii. 5

Chase, Secretary of Treasury, i. 115, 121; ii. 72, 283; quarrel with Seward, 72

Chase, W.H. (of Florida), quoted, ii. 4

Chattanooga, ii. 185

Cheever, Rev. Dr., ii. 224

Chenery, ii. 301

Chesney, Captain, cited, ii. 165

Chesson, F.W., ii. 224

Chicago Convention, the, i. 175

Chicago abolitionists, Lincoln and, ii. 49 note[3]

Chicamauga, Rosencrans defeated at, ii. 184

Chittenden, cited, ii. 130 note[2]

Christian IX, of Denmark, ii. 203

Clanricarde, Lord, ii. 168

Clarendon, Earl of, i. 199 note[3], 215; ii. 3, 51-8 passim, 63, 203 note[2]; on Russell's mediation project and Lewis' Hereford speech, quoted, 57-8

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty: Seward's attack on British interpretation of, i. 113

Cobden, i. 77; quoted, on the Times, 222 note; opinion of Seward, 222 note; and Sumner, 222 note; on Palmerston's action in Trent affair, 226 note[3]; letter to Sumner read at American Cabinet meeting, 232 Otherwise mentioned, i. 289; ii. 26, 67, 80, 95 and note[4], 166, 276

Collie, ii. 189

Collier, legal advice of, on Alabama, ii. 118-9

Columbia District, freeing of slaves in, ii. 83

Columbia, S.C., burning of, ii. 248, 249

Combe, George, Notes on the United States, etc., cited, i. 29

Confederate Commissioners to Europe, the: Bunch's characterization of, i. 63; unofficial interview with Russell, 85-6, 106, 158; protest against closing of British ports, 170 note[2]; replaced by "Special Commissioners," 203; attempt to make use of the Trent affair, 214; British attitude to, not modified by Trent affair, 235; policy of, with regard to recognition and the blockade, i. 264-5, 267, 273, 300; acquire a "confidential" document, 265 and note[2]; hopes of, from Parliament, 265, 266, 272; instructions of the first Commissioners, ii. 4 and note[3]; failure of the first Commission, 4-5; suggest a treaty on African Slave Trade, 88 note[2]; slavery abolition offer, 249 Confederate Agents' correspondence, collections of, i. 261 note[1] See also under personal names

Confederates, See under Southern States

Confiscation Bill, The, ii. 82, 84, 85, 86, 92, 95; Lincoln's attitude to, 82, 84; Lord Russell's comment on, 97

Constitutionel, The, cited, ii. 236 note[2]

Continental Press and American News, ii. 71 note[2]

Corcoran, ii. 169

Cotton supplies and slavery, i. 13; in British-American commercial relations, 21, 22; British manufacturers' dependence on, 22; effect of the Civil War on, 55, 246; ii. 53; the crop of 1860 ... ii. 7 Blockade, The, and, i. 252 and note[2], 253; ii. 9; effect of, on price, i. 262, 270; Napoleon's views on, 290 England, need of, for, i. 196-7, 200 note[1], 294, 296; ii. 17, 99; cotton famine in, 294; ii. 6, 11 et seq., 16 note[1]; cotton manufacturing industry of, in 1860-1, ii. 6-7, 8; first effects of the war on, 8, 9, 10. See also under Lancashire. France, necessity of, for cotton, i. 279, 290, 293, 294, 296, 300; ii. 17; Mercier's plan to relieve, i. 196-201 Gladstone's Newcastle speech, effect of, on price of, ii. 48; "King Cotton" theory, i. 63; ii. 1 et seq.; belief of the South in cotton as a weapon of diplomacy, 2-3, 4, 5 Southern orders for destruction of, ii. 16, 17 note[4]; effect of, on British officials, 17

Cowley, Lord, British Ambassador in Paris, i. 88; reports French agreement with British policy on Southern belligerent rights, 88; in the Declaration of Paris negotiations, 88, 143, 156, 157, 158, 162, 167; conversations with Thouvenel in Bunch affair, 189; disturbed at French evasion of direct support, 189, 192, 201 note[1]; in Trent affair fears war with America, 214; communications on Southern Ports Bill, 247 and note[2]; view of French attitude on Southern Ports Bill, 247; on French policy in Mexico, 260, 261 note; ii. 46; quoted, on Thouvenel's view on mediation in Feb., 1862 ... i. 266 note[1]; on Mercier's Richmond visit, i. 288; statement of, to Lindsay, after interview with Napoleon, 290; on the possibility of reunion, 290; on the blockade, 290-1; denial of Napoleon's "offer" to England, 290, 291; reports of, on Lindsay's mission, 291-2, 293, 295 note[1]; conversations with Thouvenel on Lindsay, 291, 293-4; Napoleon's letter to, on Lindsay, quoted, 295 note[2]; interview with Thouvenel on Russell's mediation plan, ii. 38, 39 and note, 46; on Napoleon's suggestion of joint mediation, 59; instructed to notify France of England's view of the war as ended and of attitude to Confederate cruisers, 266-7 Otherwise mentioned, i. 218 note

Crawford, Consul-General at Havana, ii. 148

Crimean War: Anglo-French agreement regarding neutral commerce, i. 139

Crittenden, i. 49

Daily Gazette, The, cited, ii. 109 note

Daily News, attitude of, during the American Civil War, i. 69-70 and note 1, 176, 181-2; ii. 230 note[3], on Lincoln's message to Congress, i. 176; letters of W.W. Story in, 228

Daily Telegraph, cited, ii. 50 note[1], attitude and circulation of, 189 note[2], 226, 230 note[3]

Dallas, American Minister to Great Britain, i. 62; lack of instructions on American intentions, 62, 108, 112; communications with Lord Russell, 62, 66, 74; despatches to Seward on Russell's intentions, 66-7; Russell's pledge of delay to, 67, 84, 85, 107, 108; report on proposed British joint action with France, 84-5, 86 Otherwise mentioned, i. 74, 96, 156 note[1]

Dana, R.H., cited, i. 218; The Trent Affair, cited, 203 note, 205 note[2], 237 note

Danish question, The, ii. 203-5, 214

Darwin, Charles, quoted, i. 180 and note[4]

Davis, Bancroft, Times correspondent in New York, i. 56

Davis, Jefferson, personal characteristics of, i. 59, 81, 82: ii. 276; attitude of, in the opening of the crisis, i. 49; elected President of the Southern Government, 59, 81; foreign policy of, 81-2; aristocratic views of, on government, ii. 276; proclamation of, on marque and privateering, i. 83, 89, 90, 92, 111, 121, 122, 141, 160; defensive measures of, in the South, 172; on Bunch's negotiations on Declaration of Paris, 186; replaces Confederate agents to Europe, 203; and the African Slave Trade, ii. 88 note[2]; proclamation of retaliation against Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 106 and note[4]; on England's conduct towards the South, 184; on Southern disorganization, 219; flight of, from Richmond, 248; approves plan of offering abolition of slavery in return for recognition, 249; capture of, 267 British views on, ii. 276 Bunch's characterization of, i. 59, 185 note[4] Gladstone's Newcastle speech on, ii. 47 Otherwise mentioned, i. 163 note[1], 185 note[4], 254, 265 note[2], 283; ii. 5, 6, 176 note[3], 251, 252, 285

Dayton, American Minister at Paris, i. 129, 142, 143, 145, 150, 151, 163, 165, 167 note[3], 168, 200, 231, 300

de Brunow, Russian Ambassador. See under Brunow

de Flahault, French Ambassador. See under Flahault

Debats: French press views on military situation, cited, ii. 174 note[3]

De Bow's Review, eulogies of the South in, quoted, ii. 2, 3, 4; on cotton and slavery, 3; view of England's action on blockade, 4

Declaration of Paris, The, i. 102, 139-40; attitude of United States to, 140-1, 156; American offer of adherence during the Civil War, 104, 137, 141-2, 150, 151

Declaration of Paris Negotiation, The, i. 137 et seq., 184, 201; British suggestion to France in, i. 88, 91, 142, 146-7, 156, 157 and note[3]; American offer of adherence, 104, 137, 141-2, 150, 151; convention agreed between Britain, France, and America, 142-3; addition of a declaration in support of British neutrality proposed by Lord Russell, 143-6, 149, 151, 154, 68, 170, 201; American rejection of convention, 145, 168, 201 American argument at Geneva on effect of British diplomacy in, i. 146 note[2] Confederates: approach of, in the negotiation, i. 161, 164, 165, 166, 168 note[4], 184-6, 188, 192, 193; Confederate Congress resolution of approval in, 186 Convention, the, proposed by U.S. Cowley's opinion on, i. 167 and note[3]; Thouvenel's opinion on, 167; Palmerston's suggestion on, 167 and note[4] Seward's motives in, See under Seward

Delane, editor of the Times: Palmerston's letters to, on American rights in interception of Confederate Commissioners, i. 207-8, 209; close relations of, with Palmerston, 229 note[2]; ii. 145; anticipations of Southern victory, ii. 204 and note[2]; on prospective war with America, 254; effect of Sherman's arrival at Savannah on, 245 and note[2], 300-1 Otherwise mentioned, i. 177, 178, 180; ii. 65, 289

de Lhuys, M. Drouyn, French Premier, ii. 59 and note[4], 60, 63 note[5], 168

Democratic element in British Society: lack of press representation, i. 24, 41

Democracy: British views on American institutions, i. 24, 28, 30, 31; ii. 274-5; view of the American struggle as a failure of, 276 et seq. passim; Press comments on the lesson from failure of American democratic institutions, 279, 280, 281, 285, 286, 297; bearing of the Civil War on, 299; aristocratic and conservative attitude to, 286, 287, 297, 298, 300, 301; rise of democratic feeling in Great Britain, 291; effect of the Reform Bill of 1867, 304

Derby, Lord (Leader of the Opposition), i. 76, 77, 79, 94 and note[2], 240, 241; attitude to recognition and mediation, i. 240; ii. 51, 52, 53, 54, 77; attacks governmental policy in relation to Laird Rams and Southern shipbuilding, 149-50, 197; approves attitude to Napoleon's mediation proposals, 154-5; speech in motion for address to the Crown on Lincoln's assassination, 263; attacks Government on American "piracy proclamation" at end of the war, 267-8; attitude to expansion of the franchise, i. 77; ii. 276, 303 and note[1] Otherwise mentioned, i. 292, 295; ii. 51 note[2], 166, 210, 214

Dial, The, i. 70 note[1]

Disraeli, Benjamin (Tory leader in the Commons), i. 79; on Trent affair, 241; connection with Lindsay's motion, 292, 295, 296, 306; ii. 213 and note[1]; approval of neutrality, ii. 77, 174 note[1]; in Roebuck's motion, 153, 171, 174; attitude to stoppage of Southern shipbuilding, 197; speech, of, on the motion for the Address to the Crown on Lincoln's assassination, 263-4; Reform Bill of (1867) ... 303 and note[1] Mentioned, ii. 270 note[3]

Donoughmore, Earl of, ii. 204 and note[2]; reply to Mason, 250-1

D'Oubril, ii. 59 note[4], 62 note[5]

Doyle, Percy, i. 218 note[1]

Dublin News, quoted, i. 45, 46 note[1]

Dubuque Sun, The, ii. 22 note

Dudley, U.S. Consul at Liverpool, ii. 118, 130 note[2], 144, 145 note[2]

Dufferin, Lord, i. 240

Duffus, R.L., "Contemporary English Popular Opinion on the American Civil War," i. 41 note[1]; quoted, 41, 48; cited, 70 note[1]; ii. 112 note[1]

Dumfermline, Lady, i. 224 note[3]

Dumping of British goods: effect on American feeling, i. 19, 21

Economist, The: attitude in the struggle, i. 41, 54, 57, 173-4; ii. 15, 173, 231 note; cited or quoted: on Lincoln's election, i. 39 and note[1]; on impossibility of Northern reconquest, 57; on secession an accomplished fact, 174; ii. 79; on Bull Run, i. 179; on cotton shortage, i. 55; ii. 14, 15; on servile insurrection, 79; on Cotton Loan, 160, 162; on Roebuck's motion, 173; on extension of the franchise, 277; on American institutions and statesmen, 279-80

Edinburgh Review, The: attitude to slavery, i. 33, 45; ii. 281; attitude in the conflict, i. 42; ii. 50 note[2], 68; on recognition, 46 note[3]; on the Emancipation Proclamation, 103; on the causes of the war, 281

Elliot, chargé, i. 14

Elliott, E.N., editor of Cotton is King and Pro-Slavery Arguments, ii. 3 note[2]

Emancipation, Proclamation of: ii. 74, 78, 80, 86 and note[1], 91; idea of military necessity for, 81, 82, 85, 87; Lincoln's alleged purpose in, 87; purpose of, according to Seward, 99-100; viewed as an incitement to servile insurrection, 49, 74, 98, 101, 103 note[6] American reception of, ii. 101, 105 British attitude to, ii. 101 et seq.; Press denunciation of, 102-5, 106; public meetings in favour of, 106 and note[2], 107, 108; English women's support of, 109; Nonconformist support, 109, 110; Emancipation societies support of, 110 Confiscation Bill, See that heading See also Border States and sub-heading under Lincoln

Emigration, British, to America, i. 23-4; ii. 200-1; Kearsarge incident, 200-1

England: cotton famine. See under Cotton. See Great Britain

Erlanger & Co. and Confederate Cotton Loan, ii. 158-60, 161, 162 and note[3]

European opinion of the Civil War after duration of three years, ii. 219

Eustis, i. 204, 234 note[2]

Evans, William, ii. 224

Everett, Edward, Russell's letter to, on Proclamation of Neutrality, i. 166 note[3]

Ewart, question by, in the House of Commons, on Privateers, i. 90

Expatriation, American and British views on, i. 16

Fairfax, Lieut., of the San Jacinto, i. 205

Farnall's "Reports on Distress in the Manufacturing Districts," ii. 12 note, 20

Fawcett, Prof., ii. 224 note[3]

Featherstonaugh, G.W., Excursion through the Slave States, cited, i. 29

Federals. See under Northern

Ferguson, Sir James, i. 268; ii. 175

Ferrand, attack by, on cotton manufacturers in the Commons, ii. 164

Fishmongers of London: Meeting in honour of Yancey, ii. 223 note[1]

Fitzgerald, Seymour, i. 306; ii. 25

Fitzwilliam, Hon. C., ii. 193

Flahault, M. de, French Ambassador, i. 88, 197, 260 note[1], 288, 291, 293; ii. 19 note[3], 45

Forbes, J.M., and Aspinwall, Mission of, in England, ii. 130 note[2], 297

Forbes, J.M., quoted on the Civil War viewed as a fight for Democracy, ii. 297

Forster, William E., i. 58 and note[2]; a friend of the North, 58 note[2]; ii. 224; quoted, on Harriet Martineau, i. 70 note[3]; question in Commons on privateering, 94, 157; speech against Gregory's motion on blockade, 268, 270; speech on mediation and intervention in debate on Lindsay's motion, ii. 22; close touch with Adams, 22, 36; attacks Government in debate on Southern shipbuilding, 133; rebuked by Palmerston, 135; in Roebuck's motion, 171-2, 175; comment on Southern meetings, 190 and note[2]

Fort Donelson, Confederate reverse at, i. 272, 273 note[1], 274

Fort Henry, Confederate reverse at, i. 272, 273 note[1], 274

Fox, G.V.: Confidential Correspondence, cited, i. 257 note[3], 268 note[2]; ii. 120 note[3]; quoted, on Confederate ironclads in England, 130 note[2]

France: Naval right of search exercised by, i. 6; and American contentions on neutral rights, 18; Confederate Cotton Loan, attitude to, ii. 160 note[2] Cotton: lack of, i. 279, 290, 293-4, 296, 300; ii. 17 Mediation and armistice, attitude to British unofficial overture on, ii. 38-9, 45-6, 59-60 Ministerial crisis, ii. 39, 45, 59 Neutrality of, i. 299; Northern sentiment on, ii. 225 and note[2] Policy in the Civil War: joint action of, with Great Britain, i. 84, 88, 156, 166 note[1], 196, 249-50, 252, 259, 260, 284, 294; ii. 28, 75, 198; break in, 77 Press of, and the events in U.S., ii. 174 note[3], 236 note[2] See also under Mercier, Napoleon, Thouvenel, and under subject-headings

Fraser's Magazine, ii. 284; J.S. Mill's articles in, i. 240, 242; ii. 81, 90, 285

Fraser, Trenholm & Company: Confederate financial agents in Liverpool, ii. 156, 157

Frederick VII of Denmark: and Schleswig-Holstein, ii. 203

Free Trade, i. 21; ii. 304

Freeman, E.A., History of Federal Government, cited, ii. 152-3

Fremont, ii. 82

Gallenga,----, Times correspondent in New York, ii. 189

Gait, Sir J.T., i. 221 note[1]; 222 note

Galveston, Tex. i. 253 note[1]; ii. 266, 268

Garrison, W.L., American abolitionist, editor of the Liberator, i. 31, 33, 46 and note[1]

Garrison, Garrison, cited, ii. 91 note[1], 111 note[3]

Gasparin, Count, cited, ii. 92 notes

Geneva Arbitration Court: American complaint of British Neutrality, in, i. 138; American argument before, on Declaration of Paris, 146 note[2]

German opinion on the Civil War, i. 178 note[3]; ii. 111 note[2]; press attitude, 285 note[1]

Germany: the Index quoted on "aid given by, to the North," ii. 236 note[2]

Gettysburg, Battle of, ii. 143, 176 note[2], 185, 296

Gladstone, Thomas, letters of, to the Times, i. 32, 33 The Englishman in Kansas, i. 32 note

Gladstone, W.E., i. 76, 78; fear of war with America in Trent affair, 215; influence of the commercial situation on, ii. 26; attitude to intervention, 26, 27, 30-1, 48, 57; Newcastle speech, 47 and note[3], 48, 49, 50 and note[1], 51 and notes, 55, 58; memorandum in reply to Lewis, 57; supports Napoleon's suggestion on armistice and blockade, ii. 64, 69; account of Cabinet discussion on Napoleon's suggestion, 65 and note[1]; idea of offering Canada to the North, 69, 70 and note[1]; and the Confederate Cotton Loan, 163 note[2]; reply of, in Roebuck's motion, 170-1; quoted, on the American dispute as a blow to democracy, 282-3 Otherwise mentioned, i. 179, 200 note[1], 224, 266; ii. 59, 66, 77, 80

Goddard, S.A., ii. 108 Letters on the American Rebellion, cited, ii. 108 note[3], 109 note[1]

Godkin, E.L., Daily News correspondent, i. 70 and note[2]

Golder, Dr. F.A., cited, i. 53 note[3]. "The Russian Fleet and the Civil War," cited, i. 227 note[1]; ii. 129 note[1]

Goodenough, Captain, report of, on American readiness for foreign war, ii. 199 note[3]

Gorgas, Col., ii. 5 note[1]

Gortchakoff, comment of, on Russell's mediation plan, ii. 45 note[2]; and idea of Russian mediation, 251 note[1]; mentioned, i. 164 note[1]; ii. 59 note[4], 66 note[2], 70 note[2]

Grant, General, capture of Forts Henry and Donelson by, i. 273 note[1], 274; victory at Shiloh, 278; captures New Orleans, 279; Western campaign of, ii. 164, 166, 184-5; capture of Vicksburg by, 176 note[2], 185; advance to Richmond, 217, 219; siege of Southern lines at Petersburg, 217; capture of Petersburg and Richmond by, 247-8; Times report of reverses to, 212, 227, 243; condition of his army, Southern account in Times, 227; W.H. Russell's comment on Grant's campaign, 232-3; Henry Adams, quoted, on, 243 Otherwise mentioned, ii. 215, 249, 256

Grant's The Newspaper Press, cited and quoted, ii. 231 note

Granville, Lord, i. 76, quoted, 199 note[3]; on difficulties in Washington and attitude of neutrality, 241; opposition of, to Russell's mediation plan, ii. 42 and note[2], 43, 44, 46; mentioned, i. 94 note[3]; ii. 203 note[2]

Grattan, Thomas Colley, quoted, i. 36; Civilized America, i. 36 note[1]

Great Britain: Citizenship, theory of, i. 5-6 Colonial system: trade basis of, i. 17, 20, 21 Commercial relations with America after independence, i. 17 et seq., 22 Franchise, expansion of the, in, i. 26, 28; ii. 274, 276-7, 301, 302, 303, 304; effect of the American example on political agitation in, 274; connection of the American struggle with the franchise movement in, 276, 277, 278, 286; Radical acceptance of the challenge on democracy, 282, 283, 290, 298, 300; aristocratic and conservative attitude to democracy, 286, 287, 298, 300, 301 Policy toward America: conditions affecting, i. 2 et seq. 35; ii. 270; the right of search controversy, i. 6-10; territorial expansion 13-15, 16; extension of slavery, 13, 15; Mexican War, 15-16; commercial interests, 19-22; in the Civil War, 50-4, 58, 59, 79, 84, 136, 178, 199; ii. 270-2; influence of democracy in determining, ii. 303-5; policy of joint action with France. see under France. See also under Lyons, Russell, and subject-headings. Public opinion and governmental policy of, in relation to America, i. 15, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 Public opinion and official views in, at the opening of the Civil War, i. 40-60; doubts of Northern cause, 48, 50; attitude to recognition of the South, 53 note[1], on secession, 54, 55, 57 Trade: exclusive basis in, i. 17, 20, 21; effect of American retaliatory system on, 20; free trade theory, 21; ii. 304; hopes from cotton interests, i. 22 Working classes in: Northern sympathies of, ii. 284, 285 note[1] See also subject-headings

Great Lakes: Armaments agreement, i. 4; ii. 253, 254

Greeley, Horace, editor of New York Times, attack on Seward by, i. 280 note[1]; and Mercier's proposal of mediation, ii. 75; Lincoln's reply to, on emancipation, 92-3

Gregg, Percy, ii. 154 note[1]

Gregory (Liberal-Conservative, friend of the South), i. 90, 91 note[1], 267; motion of, for recognition of the South, 85, 91, 108; advice to Mason on blockade question, 267; motion to urge the blockade ineffective, 268-72; speech in Parliament on distress in Lancashire, ii. 21, 22 and note; quoted on attitude of Parliament to intervention and recognition, 155; view of Roebuck's motion, 175; question of, on the destruction of British property in America, 265; mentioned, i. 292; ii. 153, 164

Greville, Charles, quoted, ii. 3

Greville. Colonel, ii. 193 note

Grey, Sir George, i. 163, 207; ii. 171, 263

Grimes, Senator, on the purpose of the Privateering Bill, ii. 123-4

Gros, Baron, ii. 167, 168-9, 170

Grote, George, quoted, i. 1

Haliburton, T.C., ii. 187, 193 note

Hall, Capt. Basil, Travels in North America, cited, i. 26-7

Hall, Rev. Newman, ii. 111, 224

Hamilton, R.C., "The English Press and the Civil War," i. 38 note[2]

Hamilton, Capt. Thomas, Men and Manners in America, quoted, i. 27

Hammond, E., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, i. 189; enquiry as to possible action of American Navy to intercept Southern Commissioners, 206-7, 210, 211 and note[1]; on Foreign Enlistment Act, ii. 142; letter of, to Lyons, on seizure of Laird Rams, 147 note[4]; quoted, on public opinion and Napoleon's proposal of mediation, 66; mentioned, i. 256; ii. 45

Hammond, Senator, of S. Carolina, quoted, ii. 2-3

"Hampton Roads Conference," The, ii. 252-3

Harcourt, Sir William, quoted, on Lord Russell's statesmanship during the American Civil War, i. 1; letters of, in the Times on questions of International Law, i. 222 note; ii. 63 and note[2]; and see under "Historicus"

Hardwicke, Earl, i. 94 note[2]

Harris, T.L., The Trent Affair, cited, i. 203 note, 205 note[1], 217 note[1], 227 note[1], 231 note[2]; ii. 282 note[2]; citations of anti-Americanism in Times, i. 217 note[1]

Hawthorne, Julian, cited, i. 47

Head, Sir Edmund, Governor of Canada, i. 129, 197 note[2]

Hertslet, Map of Europe by Treaty, cited, i. 94 note[3]

"Historicus," Letters of, to the Times, cited and quoted, i. 222 note; ii. 63, 104, 138 note[1]

Holmes, O.W., i. 37 note

Hood, General, ii. 236 note[2]

Hope, A.J. Beresford, ii. 187, 189, 193 note, 281-2

Hopwood, i. 305; ii. 11, 18, 21

Horsfall, Mr., ii. 153

Horton, Wilmot, i. 23; Committee on Emigration to America, 23, 24

Hotze, H., Confederate agent, quoted on effect of Trent affair, i. 243; descriptive account of his activities, ii. 154 note[1]; and the "foul blot" phrase, 240; and the Southern arming of negroes, 241; mentioned, ii. 68 note[1], 180 note[3], 213 Hotze Papers, The, ii. 154 note[1], 180 note[2], 185 note[1]

Houghton, Lord, ii. 265-6, 267

Hughes, Thomas, i. 181; ii. 224 note[3]

Hunt, James, The Negro's Place in Nature, cited, ii. 222

Hunt's Merchants Magazine, cited ii. 8 note[2], 14 note[1]

Hunter, Confederate Secretary of State, i. 264

Hunter, General, issues order freeing slaves, ii. 84

Hunter, Mr., editor of the Herald, ii. 213 and note[1]

Huse, Caleb, ii. 120 note[2], 159

Huskisson, cited, i. 20

Huxley's criticism of Hunt's The Negro's Place in Nature, ii. 222

Impressment by Britain: a cause of irritation to America, i. 6, 7, 8, 16

Index, The, ii., 33 and note[3]; agitation of, for recognition of the South and mediation, 33-4, 153-4; on Gladstone's Newcastle speech, 51 note[3]; views of, on Lord Russell and his policy, 51 note[3], 55 and note[4], 68, 69, 165, 196, 197; on reply to French joint mediation offer, 68-9; on Laird Rams, 150 note[2]; quoted on Government attitude to the belligerents, 154, 164-5; connection with Hotze, 154 note[1]; and the fall of Vicksburg, 165, 178 and note[1]; on French press and policy of France, 174 note[3], 180; reports of, on Southern meetings and associations, 188, 190 and notes, 194 and note[2], 195, 239 and note[4], 240; comments on the Palmerston-Mason interview, 215-6; criticism of Palmerston's reply to deputation on mediation, 216; view of mediation, 217; defence of slavery in the South, 220-2, 240-1; criticism of the Times, 228; quotations from the French press on the war, 236 note[2]; and the Presidential election, 236 note[2]; on Germany's aid to the North, 236 note[2]; on reception of Northern deputations by Adams, 245 note[1]; on characteristics of Southern leaders and society, 287; view of Northern democracy, 287; denunciation of the Manchester School 298-9; cited, ii. 181 note[2], 186, 190 note[3], 199 note[4], 232, 241 note[1], 242; quoted, 192, 193 note[1]

Ionian Islands, control of, i. 79

Ireland: Irish emigration to America, i. 29; ii. 200, 201; enlistments in, for Northern forces, 200, 201; the Kearsarge incident, 201-2; petitions circulated in, in support of the North, 240

Italy, disturbances in, ii. 29

Jackson, Stonewall, exploits of, in Virginia: effect of, on Russell and Palmerston, ii. 38

Jackson, W.A., ii. 191

James, William Wetmore Story and his Friends, quoted, i. 228 and note[4]; cited, 256 note[4]

James Adger, The, American war-ship, i. 208, 209, 210, 211 note[1]

Jameson, Professor J.F., ii. 154 note[1]

Japan: Seward's suggestion of a naval demonstration against, i. 126 note[1]

Jefferson, President, i. 7, 11, 18

Jewett, J.P., quoted, ii. 111 note[3]

John Bull, ii. 231 note; quoted, on slavery not an issue, i. 179; Bull Run, a blow to democracy, i. 179-80

Johnston, General: campaign against Sherman, ii. 248, 274

Jones, Mason, pro-Northern speaker, ii. 193-4. 195. 224

Juarez (Mexican leader), ii. 198

"Justicia," letters of, in the Times, i. 217

Kansas border struggles, i. 32

Kearsarge incident, The, ii. 201-2

Kelly, William, Across the Rocky Mountains, etc., cited and quoted, ii. 275 note[3]

Kennedy, William, Texas, etc., cited, i. 29

Kenner, Duncan F., Confederate Commissioner, ii. 249-50

Kentucky, effect of "border state policy" on, i. 173

Kinglake, views of, on Roebuck's motion, ii. 175

La France, cited, ii. 236 note[2]

Laird Brothers: builders of the Alabama and Laird Rams, ii. 120, 121-2, 129; prosecution of, demanded, 136; officially ordered not to send Rams on trial trip, 146, 149; Government's correspondence with, 146 and note[2], 149-50

Laird, speech of, in reply to Bright's attack on the Government, ii. 134

Laird Rams, the, ii. 121-2, 123, 124, 137, 140 et seq., 196; description and purpose of, 122 and note[1]; British Government position, 133, 134; rumours regarding, 142-3; seizure of, 145-50, 179-80, 182; suit for damages, 151 note[1]; British Government purchase of, 151 note[1]; U.S. Navy plan to purchase, 130 note[2]; usual historical treatment of the incident, 141, 147 and note[1]

Lamar, Confederate representative: account of Roebuck and Bright, ii. 172 note[2]

Lancashire: Cotton trade, distress in, ii. 6, 11 et seq., 21, 26, 29, 31, 240; attitude in, to Government policy, 10, 11, 13-15; attitude of the "Cotton Lords" to, 10, 16; Farnall report on, 12, 20; Northern sympathies of cotton operatives, 13, 285 note[1] Cotton factories, statistics, ii. 6 Cotton manufacturers, attack on in Commons, ii. 163-4

Lane, Franklin K., Letters of, cited ii. 129 note[1]

Layard, reply of, on Roebuck's motion, ii. 171, 173; on destruction of British property in America, 265

Le Siècle, cited, ii. 174 note[3], 236 note[2]

Lee, General, turns back McClellan's advance on Richmond, ii. 1; defeated at Antietam, 43, 85; retreat of, through Shenandoah valley, 43; advance in Pennsylvania, 163 note[1], 164, 176; defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville, 164; retreat from Gettysburg, 163 note[1], 178, 179, 297; defence of Richmond, 185, 217, 247, 248; surrender, 248, 255, 256-7, 265, 301, 303 Times, quoted or cited, on his campaign, ii. 227, 256, 296

Lees, Mr., ii, 220

Lempriere, Dr., i. 180; ii. 191

Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, i. 76, 78 and note, 94; ii. 52; views of, on the Civil War, ii. 50 and note[2], 51; article on "The Election of President Lincoln and its Consequences," i. 78 note; fears war with America in Trent affair, 215, 226; objections of, to mediation, ii. 44-6; Hereford speech of, in reply to Gladstone, 50 and note[1], 51, 55, 58; view of the Emancipation Proclamation, 52; action of, on Russell's proposed intervention, 52 et seq., 73-4; memorandum of, on British policy in opposition to Russell, 62-3; account of Cabinet discussion on Napoleon's armistice suggestion, 63-5; Hereford speech, effect on Adams, ii. 55; Palmerston's views on Lewis' attitude to recognition, 56; Russell's reply to Lewis, 56, 57

Liberator, The, Garrison's abolition organ, i. 31, 33 and note[3]; 46 and note[1], 47; cited or quoted, 70 note[1]; ii. 106 note[2], 107, 109 note[2]; III note[3], 130, 184 note[3], 189 note[2], 191 note[2], 194, 223 and note[2], 224 note[2], 237 note[1], 239 notes, 240 note[2], 289

Liebknecht, W., ii. 301 note[3]

Lincoln, President, i. 115 Characteristics of, i. 115, 119, 120, 127-8; influence of, in Britain, ii. 276 Election and inauguration, i. 36, 38, 39, 48, 51, 64, 82, 110, 115; inaugural address, 38, 50, 71, 175; personal view of terms of election, 49; popular views on 79, 114, 115 Decision to reinforce Fort Sumter, i. 117, 118, 119, 120; and defend Federal forts, 118; attitude to Seward's foreign war policy, 119-20, 136; reply to Seward's "Some Thoughts for the President's Consideration," 119-20, 124; modifies Despatch No. 10, 126-7; attitude to Schleiden's Richmond visit, 121 122; emergency measures of, 172, 173 Policy and views of, on:-- Blockade proclamation, i. 83, 110, 111, 244. See heading Blockade Border State policy of, i. 173, 176, 272 note[1]; ii. 82 Confiscation Bill, attitude to, ii. 82, 84 Emancipation Proclamation of, See that heading Hampton Roads, Conference at, ii. 252-3 Intervention, on, ii. 36 Piracy proclamation, i. 83, 111, 160 Servile insurrection, ii. 83 Slavery: inaugural address on, i. 38. 50, 71, 175; view of the terms of his election regarding, 49; denial of emancipation as an issue, 239; ii. 88; reply to Chicago abolitionists on, ii. 49 note[3]; declarations on, 78; conversations with Sumner on, 82; attitude to emancipation, 82, 83-4, 96; and anti-slavery sentiment, 83; denial of, as a cause of the war, 88; reply to Schurz on emancipation, 72; reply to Greeley, 93, 94; orders of, as to liberated slaves, 100 Trent affair; attitude to release of envoys, i. 231 and note[2], British view of, in, i. 225, 226, 230 Union, the: efforts to preserve, i. 49, 121; efforts to restore, ii. 82, 83, 93-5; reply to Greeley on, 92-3 Attitude of, to England, i. 301; curtails authority of General Butler, 305; settles quarrel between Seward and Chase; ii. 72; letter to Manchester supporters of the North, 109; drafts resolution for use in British public meetings on slavery, 113; British addresses to, 288, 290-1 Re-election, ii. 226, 234, 235, 238; expectations of his defeat, 226, 231; British Press views on, 234-5, 238; Punch cartoon, 239 and note[1]; complaints of his despotism and inefficiency in press, ii. 176, 232; his terms to the South, 251, 252 Assassination of, ii. 257-8, 265; political effect of, in Britain, 301, and in Germany, 301 note[3]; British sympathy, 259-64 Appreciations of, ii. 258-61 British opinion of, during the War, ii. 239 note[1] Bright's confidence in, ii. 255 and note[1] Lyons' view on, i. 51; ii. 258-9 Press views, i. 38-9; ii. 102-5 passim Schleiden's view of, i. 116 Influence of Bright's letters on, i. 232; pardons Rubery in honour of Bright, ii. 225 and note[1] Otherwise mentioned, i. 59, 81, 149, 223; ii. 39, 68, 91, 109 note[2], 126, 225, 251, 278, 281, 297

Lindsay, William Schaw: descriptive account of, i. 267, 289; on the blockade and French attitude to intervention, 267; project of mediation of, 279; account of interview with Napoleon III, 289-90; interview with Cowley, 290-1; second interview with Napoleon, 291; effect of interviews on Confederate Commissioners, 292; refused an interview by Russell and Palmerston, 294-5, 296; third interview with Napoleon, 295; interview with Disraeli, 295, 296; proposed motion in Parliament, 301-2, 305-6, 307; account of a letter to Russell in explanation of his proposed motion, 305 and note[5]; introduces motion in Parliament on mediation, ii. 18, 20, 21-23; withdrawal of, 23, 34; with Roebuck interviews Napoleon on recognition, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173, 174-5, 177; suggestion by, on Confederate finance, 156; proposes a further recognition motion, 178 note[1]; connection with Southern Independence Association, 193, 195, 204, 205, 206, 211; hopes of, from attack on Government policy in detaining Southern vessels, 185, 195, 196; hopes from Napoleon and from Southern victory, 204; fresh agitation for mediation and recognition, 205-6, 209, 210; interviews Palmerston, 206-7, 209; urges Mason to interview Palmerston, 207, 208, 209; interview with Lord Russell 209-10, 212-13; use of the Danish question, 206, 210; hopes from Disraeli, 213; postponement of his motion, 214, 215, 218 Friendship with John Bright, ii. 172 note[1]; otherwise mentioned, i. 197, 268; ii. 25, 181

Lindsay & Co., ii. 157

Liverpool: change of feeling in, over the Alabama, ii. 129-30

Liverpool Post, The, cited on the Emancipation Proclamation, ii. 103

Liverpool Shipowners' Association, urges remonstrance on closing of Charleston Harbour by "Stone Boats," i. 256

London Chronicle, The, quoted, i. 46

London Confederate States Aid Association, ii. 191, 192 and note[2], 195

London Emancipation Society, ii. 91, 110; distinguished members of, 91 note[1]

London Gazette, The, i. 94

London Press, The, quoted i. 54-5, 68

London Review, The, cited, i. 46 and note[4]

Longfellow, H.W., i. 37 note, 55 note[2]

Lothian, Marquis of, ii. 187, 193 note

Lousada, letter to Lyons on Trent affair, quoted, i. 220 note[2]

Lowell, J.R., i. 37 note, 236

Lushington, Dr., i. 207

Lutz, Dr. Ralph H., cited, i. 117 note; ii. 111 note[2]; 121 note[1] Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland, etc., cited, i. 117 note; ii. 285 note[1]

Lyons, Lord, British Minister in Washington, i. 42, 51, 114; attitude in the American dispute, 51, 53, 88 note[2], 93 and note[3], 254; ii. 237 note[4]; on Southern clamour at Lincoln's election, i. 51; views on the personnel of the Northern Government, i. 59-60; view of Seward, 59, 60, 65, 114, 129; ii. 72; fears from Seward's foreign war policy, i. 60, 128-36 passim; efforts to prevent interruption of commerce with the South, i. 64, 65, 66, 72, 73, 244; views on the American controversy, 72, 73; advises joint action with France, 84; receives instructions on British policy, 87; and course of action if disavowed by America, i. 190; suspicion of French policy, 201 and note; survey of the situation after Shiloh, 278; farewell interview with Lincoln, 301; opinion of Adams, ii. 71 note[4]; views on Lincoln and Davis' proclamations, 106; friendliness of Seward to, 72, 141, 176 note[2]; report of improved relations on seizure of Laird Rams, 147, 182; report on "scare" at Lee's advance, 176 note[2]; view after Gettysburg, 176 note[2]; protests against Russell's motion to withdraw belligerent rights to the North, 182, 183; attitude to American public animosity towards Great Britain, 197, 198; on Seward's plan to collect import duties at Southern ports, 198; description of American readiness for foreign war, 183 and note[2], 199; on arrogance of American ministers, 199; advises quiet attitude towards the North, 226; view of Northern determination 226, 233; view of Lincoln's chances of re-election, 226, 233; on effect of the fall of Atlanta, 234; advice on Seward's demonstrations for electioneering purposes, 237; illness of, 233, 237; return to London, 237 note[4]; appreciation of diplomatic service of, 237 note[4] Diplomatic action and views of, in regard to: Belligerent rights to the South, i. 87; attitude to request for withdrawal, i. 274-5; ii. 198 Blockade, i. 64, 65, 66, 72, 73, 244-5; ii. 226; and legislative closing of Southern ports, i. 244, 246; communications with Seward on, 244, 245, 246, 250, 257; opinion on, 254 Southern Ports Bill, i. 246-50 passim Bunch controversy, i. 184 et seq.; view on Bunch's conduct, 187; conferences with Seward in, 191-2, 193, 194 and note[1]; comment on Bunch's explanation, 192-3; attitude to American decision in, 193, 194 Cotton, i. 54 note[1], 64, 196-7; ii. 20 and note[3] Declaration of Paris negotiations: alarmed by Seward's attitude, i. 151, 163 notes; view of Seward's refusal to see the despatch, 153 and note[2]; communications with Confederates in, 161, 163 notes, 164, 165, 166, 168 note[4], 185, 188; view on the American proposal, 154, 162, 164 Emancipation, as an issue, i. 223 Emancipation proclamation, ii. 106, 113, 114 and note Intervention, i. 197; ii. 26, 36; fears commercial influence on policy, 26; See also Mediation infra Irish emigrants: enlistment of, ii. 201 Mediation, i. 284, 286, 297, 298-9; ii. 23, 37 note[1], 70; summary of Mercier's plan of, i. 298-9; report on French isolated offer of, ii. 75-6; on Russian suggestion of, 76 Mercier's Richmond visit, i. 281 et seq. passim; ii. 24 note[2]; comment on the result of, i. 286; effect of, on, 287; comment on newspaper report of, 287 Privateering Bill, ii. 125, 126, 127 Proclamation of Neutrality, presentation of, to Seward, i. 102, 103, 132, 133, 163 note[3], 164, 184 Recognition of the South, i. 65, 66, 73, 197, 198; ii. 70 Seward's foreign war policy, i. 60, 128-9, 130, 132, 133, 136; advice to Russell on, 128-9, 131; anxiety as to Canada, 128, 129, 131 Slave Trade Treaty, i. 276 Slavery, i. 52, 73, 93 and note[3]; account of changes in Northern feeling on, 223 Southern Commissioners, i. 65, 72 Southern shipbuilding, ii. 127, 139-141; on American War feeling over, 139-40 Trent affair, i. 210, 211, 221; instructions in, 212-4; anxiety for Canada in, 221 Otherwise mentioned, i. 43, 57, 59, 74, 242, 243; ii. 147 note[4], 170

Lytton, Bulwer, on dissolution of the Union, cited, i. 182

McClellan, General: advance of, on Richmond, i. 276, 279, 297, 298, 301; ii. i, 33; defeat of, by Lee, 1, 18, 33; rumoured capture of, 20, 21 note; Adams' opinion on rumours, 20, 21 note; British newspaper reports of capture of, 20, 21 note; removal of, 30; defeats Lee at Antietam, 43, 85; fails to follow up his victory, 43, 105; as candidate in Presidential election, 234 note[2], 238

McFarland, i. 204, 234 note[2]

McHenry, George, The Cotton Trade, cited, ii. 6 note[2], 13 note[2], 185 note[2]

Mackay, Alexander, The Western World, cited and quoted, i. 30; ii. 274-5

Mackay, Charles, i. 37 and note, 46 note[4]; as Times correspondent in New York, ii. 176 notes; 189, 226 Forty Years' Recollections, cited, ii. 176 note[2] "John and Jonathan" poem, quoted, i. 37 note Life and Liberty in America, quoted, i. 37 note

Mackay, Dr., editor of the London Review, i. 46 note[4]

McKenzie, (Canadian Rebellion, 1837), i. 4

McLaren, Duncan, ii. 224 note[3]

McRea, opinion of, on Hotze and Slidell, ii. 180 note[3]

Madison, President, i. 11

"Madison's War," i. 4

Maine, State of: boundary controversy, i. 4, 9

Malmesbury, Lord, i. 79, 84, 149; ii. 25, 167

Manchester Emancipation Society, The, ii. no, 224 note[3]

Manchester Examiner and Times, i. 70 note[1]; ii. 231 note; cited, ii. 136 note[2]

Manchester Guardian, The, ii. 231 note; cited, 181 note[2]

Manchester Southern Club, The: meeting of, and list of delegates, ii. 190 and note[2]

"Manchester Union and Emancipation Society," The, ii. 110; leading members and activities of, ii. 224 note[3]

Mann, Southern Commissioner to London, i. 63, 82, 85 notes; 264, 265, ii. 24 note[2], 241 See also under heading Confederate Commissioners

Marchand, Captain, of the American ship, James Adger, i. 208; instructions of, to intercept the Nashville, 209, 210, 211 note[1]

Marcy, Secretary of State, and the Declaration of Paris, i. 140-1

Marryat, Captain Frederick: A Diary in America, etc., cited and quoted, i. 27

Martin, M. Henri, ii. 236 note[2]

Martin, T.P., theses of, on Anglo-American trade relations, ii. 8 note[2]

Martineau, Harriet: faith of, in democracy, i. 27; ardent advocate of the North, 70 and note[3]; view of slavery as cause of the Civil War, ii. 79-80

Marx, Karl, and the Trades Unions of London meeting, ii. 291, 292 and note[1]

Maryland, and the Union: effect of "border state" policy, i. 173

Mason, James M., Special Commissioner of the Confederates to Britain, i. 183 note[2], 203; relations with Spence, 183 note[2], 266 note[3]; captured in the Trent, 204 et seq., 234 and note[2]; reception of, in England, 264; interview with Russell, 265-6, 267, 268; statistics of, on the blockade, 268 and note[2]; effect of the failure of Gregory's motion on, 272, 273; hope in a change of Government, 273; views of, on capture of New Orleans, 296; comment of, on mediation after the Northern successes, 300, and Lindsay's motion, 305, 306-7; on the state of the cotton trade in England, ii. 10; request to Lord Russell for recognition of the South, 25, 28; and Slidell's offer to France, 24 and note[2]; refused an interview: appeals to Russell for recognition, 27; view of the Emancipation Proclamation, 104; nominates Spence as financial adviser in England, 156; and Confederate cotton obligations, 157, 158, 159; and Confederate Cotton Loan, 161, 162; in Roebuck's motion, 167, 168-9, 172-3; opinion of Napoleon, 172-3; recall of, 179, 181-2; determines to remain in Europe, 182; hope from a change of Government, 185, 213-4; demonstration against, after a Southern meeting, 191; representations on Kearsarge enlistment of Irishmen, 201; interview with Palmerston suggested to, 207, 208-9, 214-5; returns to London, 212; opinion of Palmerston and Russell's attitude in interview with Lindsay, 213; suggests Disraeli to handle Lindsay's motion, 213; protests against clause in Southern Independence Association address, 220; attitude of, to slavery, 249, 250; interview of, with Palmerston, on Confederate offer to abolish slavery, 250; interview with Earl of Donoughmore, 250-1; quoted on Lee's surrender, 256 Correspondence of, i. 261 note Otherwise mentioned, i. 255, 263 note[3], 267, 292; ii. 19, 31, 147, 154 note[1], 185, 186, 195, 206, 241

Mason Papers, cited, i. 261 note[1]: ii. 24, et passim

Massie, Rev., ii. no, 190 note[3], 239

Maximilian, Archduke, i. 260; ii. 255 note[1]

Melish, John, Travels, quoted, i. 25

Mercier, French Minister in Washington: with Lyons attempts official presentation to Seward of Proclamations of Neutrality, i. 96 note[1], 102, 103, 132, 164; in Declaration of Paris negotiations 157, 158, 162, 163 note[3], 165; negotiations with Confederates, 163 notes, 164, 165, 184, 185, 191 note[4]; plan for recognition of Southern independence, 192; plan to relieve French need for cotton, 196-201; supports British demands in Trent affair, 230; on withdrawal of belligerent rights to South, 275; efforts for mediation, 279, 298, 300; ii, 36, 37 note[1], 41, 70 note[2], 71 note[1] 75, 76 note[1]; idea of an armistice, 41, 47 Richmond visit, i. 280 ct seq., ii. 24 note[2], 95; Seward's acquiescence in, i. 280, 281, 282; consultation with Lyons on, 281-2, 283; result of, 284-5; report to Thouvenel on, 285; effect of, on Lyons and Russell, 287; New York Times report of, 287; effect of, in Paris and London, 287-8; ii. 95; effect of, on Confederate agents, i. 288 Southern Ports Bill, attitude to, i. 247 note[2], 248 note[3], 249; views of, on recognition, 285-6; belief of, in ultimate Southern success, 298; and isolated French offer of mediation, ii. 75; proposes Russo-French mediation, 76 note[1]; precautions of, during Lee's northern advance, 176 note[2] Bancroft quoted on, i. 280 Otherwise mentioned, i. 166 note[1] 191; ii. 23, 40, 155, 270 note[2]

Merrimac, The, i. 276, 277

Mexican War of 1846, i. 7, 15, 206

Mexico, British influence in, i. 13; revolt of Texas from, 12-15; ii. 117 note[1]; contract of, for ships and equipment in Britain, 117 note[1]; British policy towards, after revolt of Texas, i. 13-14; war with United States, 1846 ... 7, 15, 206; expectation in, of British aid, 15; loss of California by, 15; joint action of France, Great Britain and Spain against, for recovery of debts, 259-60; designs of France in, 260; ii. 46; American idea to oust France from, 198, 251, 252, 255 note[4]

Mill, J.S., ii. 224 note[3]; article in defence of the North contributed to Fraser's Magazine, cited or quoted, i. 240, 242; ii. 80-1, 90, 285; on Trent affair, i. 240, 242; on slavery, i. 240; ii. 80-1

Milne, Admiral, i. 211; Lyons' letter to, on Southern shipbuilding in Britain and American letters of marque, ii. 140, 141 and note

Milner-Gibson, i. 226; ii. 36; attack on, by The Index, 298

Milnes, Monckton, i. 268

Missouri, State of, and the Union: effect of the "border state" policy, i. 173

Mobile, Ala., i. 253 note[1]

Mocquard: note of, on Napoleon's proposal on recognition in Roebuck's motion, ii. 167, 168, 169, 172

Monck, Viscount, ii. 140; approves seizure of Laird Rams, 147

Monitor, The: duel of with the Merrimac, i. 276; effect of, in Great Britain, 276, 277

Monroe Doctrine, The, i. 11, 12, 259; as a medium for American territorial expansion, 12

Monroe, President, i. 11

Monson, cited, i. 93

Montagu, Lord Robert, ii. 170; amendment of, on Roebuck's motion, 170, 171

Montgomery, Ala., i. 81, 82

Moore, Digest of International Law, cited, i. 137, 145, 195 note[2], 212 note[3]

Morehead, ex-Governor of Kentucky: speech of, at Liverpool, accusing Lincoln of treachery, ii. 105

Morning Herald, The, ii. 67, 68 note[1], 231 note; quoted, 67-8; cited, 215

Morning Post, The, i. 229; ii. 231 note; in Trent crisis, i. 226 note[3], 229; views on the conflict and democratic tyranny, 229; ii. 284, 285-6; on the war and the cotton industry, ii. 10; on Gladstone's Newcastle speech, 49 note[1], 55 note[1]

Morning Star, The, i. 69, 70 note[1], 179; ii. 191 note[2], 231 note; criticism of Times war news in, 228

Motley, J.L., United States Minister at Vienna: letter of, analysing nature of the American constitution, i. 174-6; urges forward step on slavery, ii. 98; reply to Seward on effect of Northern attempt to free slaves, 99; quoted on the hatred of democracy as shown in the British Press, 280-1; otherwise mentioned, i. 190 note[2], 191 Causes, The, of the American Civil War, i. 174, 175 Correspondence, i. 179 note[2], 184; ii. 33, 98 note[4], 106 note[3], 280-1

Motley, Mrs., i. 179

Mure, Robert: arrest of, i. 186-8, 192, 193 note[1], 201; Lyons' views on, 187-8

Napier, Lord, ii. 63, 66

Napoleon I., Emperor, i. 4, 8; and American contentions on neutral rights, i. 18 Napoleonic Wars, i. 4-7, 23

Napoleon III., Emperor: American policy of, ii. 39; differences with Thouvenel on, ii. 19 and note[2], 39 Blockade, view of, on the, i. 290 British policy: vexation at, i. 295 Confederate Cotton Loan, attitude to, ii. 160 note[2] Mediation: hopes for, ii. 23, 59; suggests an armistice for six months, 59, 60 et seq., 69; request for joint action by Russia and Britain with France on, 60; British views on, 60-65; British reply, 65 and note[1], 66, 152, 155; Russian attitude to, 59 note[4], 63 and [3], 64, 66; offers friendly mediation, 75-6 Interview with Lindsay on, i. 289 et seq.; reported offer on, to England, 290, 291 Interviews with Slidell on, ii. 24, 57 note[2], 60 Mercier's Richmond visit, connection of with, i. 287, 288; displeasure at, 288 Mexican policy of, i. 259-61; ii. 163, 198 Polish question, ii. 163, 164 Recognition: private desires for, ii. 20; endeavours to secure British concurrence, 19-20, 38; reported action and proposals in Roebuck's motion, 166-77 passim; interview with Slidell on abolition in return for recognition, 249-50 Otherwise mentioned, i. 114, 191; ii. 32, 54, 71, 180, 204, 270 Benjamin's view of, ii. 236 note[1] Mason's opinion of, ii. 172-3 Palmerston's views of, ii. 59

National Intelligencer, The, i. 297; ii. 49 note[2]

Neumann, Karl Friedrich: History of the United States by, cited, ii. 111 note[2]

Neutrality, Proclamations of: British i. 93, 94-6, 100, 110, 111, 134, 157, 168, 174; statements on British position, 99, 111, 163 note[3]; ii. 265; British Press views on, i. 136 note French, i. 96 note[1], 102 American attitude to, i. 96-110 passim, 132, 135, 136, 142, 174; British-French joint action, 102, 132 and note[2]; Seward's refusal to receive officially, 102, 103, 132 and note[2]; 133, 164, 169; view of, as hasty and premature, 107-8, 109, 110, 112; Seward's view of, 134-5; modern American judgment on, 110

New England States, The, i. 17, 18; opposition of, to war of 1812 ... i. 7

New Nation, The (New York), quoted on Lincoln's despotism, ii. 232

New Orleans, i. 253 note[1]; capture of, 279, 296; ii. 16; effect of, on Confederates, i. 296; Seward's promises based on, ii. 16, 26

New York, rumour of Russian fleet in harbour of, ii. 129

New York Chamber of Commerce, The, protest by, on the Alabama, ii. 126

New York City: anti-British attitude of, i. 29; idea of separate secession, 83

New York Herald, The, i. 56, 255; ii. 199 note[4]

New York Times, The, attack on W.H. Russell in, i. 178 note[2]; quoted on Trent affair, 220 note[1]; report of Mercier's Richmond visit, 287

Newcastle, Duke of, Seward's statement to, i. 80, 114, 216, 227

Newcastle Chronicle, The, i. 70 note[1]; ii. 231 note

Newfoundland fisheries controversy, i. 4

Newman, Professor, ii. 224

Newton, Dr., in Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, cited, i. 35 note

Nicaragua, i. 16

Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, cited, i. 126 note[2], 138, 146 note[2]

Nonconformist, The, i. 70 note[1]; ii. 231 note

Nonconformist sympathy with emancipation proclamations, ii. 109-10

Norfolk, Va., i. 253 note[1] "No 290," Confederate War Vessel. See Alabama

Northern States: Army, foreign element in, ii. 200 note[1] Emancipation: identified with, ii. 220 Immigration and recruiting in, ii. 200 "Insurgent" Theory, of the Civil War, i. 96, 102, 103 and note[1], 111, 246 Intervention: determination to resist, ii. 35-6, 71 "Piracy" declaration, ii. 267-8 Public and Press views in, at the outbreak of the struggle, i. 42 Union, the: determination to preserve, i. 54, 55, 173, 236; ii. 226 Western and Eastern States attitude to the War, compared, ii. 53

Opinion Nationale, The, cited, ii. 174 note[2], 236 note[2]

Oregon territory controversy, i. 15

Oreto, The, Confederate steamer, ii. 118, 123, 131, 136

Ottawa Sun, The, cited, ii, 70 note[1]

Ozanne Rev. T.D., The South as it is, etc., quoted, ii. 195 note[1]

Page, Captain, instructions to, on the use of the Laird Rams, ii. 122 note[1]

Pakenham, British Minister to Mexico, i. 13-14

Palmer, Roundell, Solicitor-General, i. 268, 271

Palmerston, Lord: Coalition Government of, in 1859 ... i. 76, 77, 78; on Seward's attitude, 130; on reinforcement of Canada, 130-1; statement of reasons for participation in Declaration of Paris, 139; suggests method of approach in Declaration of Paris negotiations, 156 note[1]; on the object of the belligerents, 178; on British policy and the cotton shortage, 199-200; on possible interception of Mason and Slidell, 207-8, 209; action of, in Trent affair, 226 note[2], 229, 241; statement of, on British neutrality, 241; interview with Spence, 266; refusal to interview Lindsay, 295-6; letters to Adams on General Butler's order, 302-5; reply to Hopwood on mediation, ii. 18; definition of British policy in debate on Lindsay's motion, 22-3; sneers at the silent cotton manufacturers, 26; views of, on mediation, 31; participates in Russell's mediation plan, 34, 36, 40-44, 46, 51, 54, 56, 73; traditional connection with Lewis' Hereford speech, 50 and note[1]; 51 note[2]; on the folly of appealing to the belligerents, 56, 59, 73; opinion of Napoleon, 59; views on French proposals for armistice, 60-1; on British position in regard to slavery, 61, 78-9; approves Russell's speech on Confederate shipbuilding, 131; defends Government procedure in Alabama case, 134-5; accusation of, against Forster and Bright, 135; attitude to seizure of Laird Rams, 145; on the use of Napoleon's name in Roebuck's motion, 174-5, 177; the crisis over Danish policy of, 203-4, 210, 214, 216; interviews with Lindsay, 206-8, 209, 210, 213; consents to interview Mason, 207; opinion of, on the ultimate result of the Civil War, 209, 215; attitude to resolution of Southern Societies, 211; interview with Mason, 214-5; reply to joint deputation of Southern Societies, 216; reply to Mason's offer on abolition, 250; assurances on relations with America after Hampton Roads Conference, 255; attitude to expansion of the franchise, 276 and note[1]; death of, 302 Characteristics of, as politician, ii. 134 Cobden quoted on, i. 226 note[2] Delane, close relations with, i. 229 note[2] Index: criticism of, in the, ii. 216 Press organ of, i, 229 Otherwise mentioned, i. 96, 168, 194, 262; ii. 19, 68, 90, 112, 168, 170, 173, 185, 188, 190, 249, 263, 285, 293

Papineau, Canadian rebellion, 1837 ... i. 4

Papov, Rear-Admiral, ii. 129 note[1]

Paris, Congress of (1856), i. 139

Peabody, George, quoted, i. 227

Peacocke, G.M.W. ii. 187, 193 note

Persigny, i. 303; conversation with Slidell on intervention, ii. 19

Petersburg, evacuation of, ii. 248

Phinney, Patrick, and the enlistment of Irishmen in the Northern army, ii. 202 and note[2]

Pickens, Governor of S. Carolina, i. 120, 185, 186 and note[1]

Pickett Papers quoted, i. 243; ii. 155; cited, i. 261 note; ii. 69 note[5]

Poland: France, Russia, Great Britain and the Polish question, ii. 129, 163, 164

Pollard, The Lost Cause, quoted on attitude of England on the cotton question, ii. 5-6

Potter, Thomas Bayley, ii. 164, 224, and note[3]

Prescott, i. 37 note

Press, British, the attitude of, in the American Civil War. See under Names of Newspapers, Reviews, etc.

Prim, Spanish General, commanding expedition to Mexico, i. 259

Prince Consort, The, i. 76, 213, 224-5; influence of, on Palmerston's foreign policy, 224; policy of conciliation to United States, 228; Adams, C.F., quoted on, 225, 228

Privateering, i. 83 et seq., 153 et seq. passim Russian convention with U.S. on, i. 171 note[1] Southern Privateering, i. 86, 89, 153, 156, 164, 165, 167, 171 note[1], 186. Proclamation on, see under Davis. British attitude to, i. 86, 89-92, 95, 158, 160, 161, 163, 166; Parliamentary discussion on, 94, 95, 157; closing of British ports to, 170 and note[2] French attitude to, i. 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 165 Northern attitude to, i. 83, 89, 90, 92, 111, 163; Seward's motive against in Declaration of Paris negotiation, 162, 164, 169; Northern accusations against Britain on, 91 United States policy on, i. 141, 156. See Privateering Bill, infra See also under Declaration of Paris negotiation

Privateering Bill, The, ii. 122 et seq.; purpose of, 122-3, 125, 137; discussion in Senate on, 123-4; passed as an administrative measure, 124, 137; influence of, on Russell's policy, 137; British view of American intentions, 137-8; historical view, 141; Seward's use of, 121 note[2]

Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein, ii. 203-4

Punch, cartoons of, cited: on Trent affair, i. 217-8, 237; on Stone Boat Blockade, 255; suggesting intervention by France, ii. 75 note[1]; on Roebuck, 170 note[1]; on Lincoln's re-election, 239 and note[1] Poem in, on the death of Lincoln, ii. 259

Putnam, G.H., Memories of My Youth, cited, i. 178 note[3]

Putnam, G.P., Memoirs, cited, ii. 163 note[2]

Quarterly Review, The, i. 47; views on the Southern secession, 47; on the lesson from the failure of Democracy in America, 47; ii. 279, 286, 301; attitude in the conflict, 199, 301; on British sympathy for the South, 301

Reader, The, cited, ii. 222, and note[2]

Reform Bill of 1832 ... i. 26, 28; ii. 276; of 1867 ... 303, 304

Republican Party, The, i. 114, 115

Rhett, cited, ii. 4 and note[3], 88

Rhodes, United States, cited or quoted, i. 110 note[4], 138, 217 note[2], 231 note[2]; ii. 16 note[2], 57 note[2], 147 note[1], 285 note[1] et passim.

Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, cited or quoted, i. 261 note, 266 note[1]; ii. 57 note[2], 69 note[5], 155 note[6], et passim.

Richmond, Va., Southern Government head-quarters at, i. 81; capture of, by Grant, ii. 248

Richmond Enquirer, The, quoted on attitude of France to the Confederacy, ii. 180

Richmond Whig, The, cited, ii. 68

Right of Search controversy, i. 6-10 passim, 16; recrudescence of, in Trent affair, 218, 219, 233, 235

Robinson, Chas. D., Lincoln's draft letter to, ii. 93 note[4]

Roebuck, speech of, on recognition, ii. 34 note[1]; motion of, for recognition of the Confederacy, 74 note[1], 144, 152, 164 et seq.; 296 note[1]; W.H. Russell's views on, 166; Lord Russell's opinion on, 166; interview of, with Napoleon, 167; Parliamentary debate on, 170-2, 176-8; withdrawal of motion, 175, 176-7; subsequent attitude of, to America, 177 note[1], 299-300; opinion on the failure of democracy in America, 299-300; Punch cartoon on, 170 note[1]; otherwise mentioned, i. 306

Rogers, Prof. Thorold, ii. 224 note[3]

Rosencrans, defeat of, at Chicamauga, ii. 184

Rost, Southern Commissioner to London, i. 63, 82, 85, 86, 264

Rouher, M., French Minister of Commerce, i. 293, 294

Roylance, ii. 110

Rubery, Alfred: Lincoln's pardon of, ii. 225 and note[1]

Russell, Lord John, i. 42, 76, 77, 78-9, 81; attitude of, in the early days of the American struggle, 42, 51, 53, 57, 60, 73-4, 79, 84; views on the secession, 52-3; views and action in anticipation of war, 57-8; instruction on possible jingo policy toward England, 60-1; recommends conciliation, i. 67, 74; refusal to make a pledge as to British policy, 67, 74, 86, 87, 101, 108, 125; promise of delay to Dallas, 67, 84, 85, 107, 108; plan of joint action with France, 84, 85; advises Parliament to keep out of the Civil War, 90 and note[3]; uncertainty as to American intention, 201-2; ii. 237; interview with Spence, i. 266; "three months" statement, 272 and note[1]; ii. 22; effect of Stonewall Jackson's exploits on, ii. 38; effect of Gladstone's Newcastle speech on, 49; idea of withdrawal of belligerent rights to the North, 182, 183; on relations with United States and Seward, 183-4; attitude to Seward's plan of collecting import duties at Southern ports, 198; views on the conflict: belief in ultimate Southern independence, 198-9, 212, 271; and the Danish question, 203; action in withdrawing neutrality proclamation, and belligerent rights, 266-7, 268, 269; attitude to piracy proclamation, 267-8, and the Reform Bill, 276, 302, 303; quoted on the degeneration of the American Republic, 285; succeeds to Premiership, 302

Diplomatic action and views of, in regard to:

Alabama, the, ii. 120, 121, 124; interview with Adams on, 128, 131; private feelings on 121, 124, 130

Belligerent rights to the South, i. 86, 87, and note[3]; reply to Houghton on, ii. 265-6, 267

Blockade, the: views on, i. 58, 91, 246, 252-3; instructions to Lyons on, 58, 244, 248, 263, 267, 271, 272; instructions to Bunch, 253 note[2]; view on notification at the port method, 246; on British Trade under, 252, 253; aim in presenting Parliamentary Papers on, 252, 267; on irritation caused by, ii. 225-6 Southern Ports Bill, protests against, i. 247-51; instructions to Lyons on, 248, 249 Stone Boat Fleet, i. 254-5, 256

Bunch controversy, i. 186, 187, 190-5; letter of caution to Lyons on possible rupture, 190; anxiety in, 190, 191

Butler's, General, order to troops: advice to Palmerston on, i. 303-4; reply to Adams, 304

Confederate Commissioners: attitude to, i. 67, 68; interviews with, i. 85-6, 158; declines official communication with, 214 and note[4], 265-6; reception of Mason, 235, 265-6, 267, 268; suggestion to Thouvenel on reception of Slidell, 235; reply to Mason's notification of his recall, ii. 181; reply to Confederate "Manifesto," 241-2

Confederate Shipbuilding: reply to Adams' protests, ii. 118, 120-1, 127; advice to Palmerston on, 131; orders detention of contractors, 135; seizure of Alexandra, 136; stoppage of, 197; result of Alexandra trial, 197. See also sub-headings Alabama, Laird Rams

Confederates: negotiations with, i. 161, 163, 166, 168 note[4], 170, 184; attitude to Thouvenel's initiation of negotiations with, 189; explanation to Adams of British attitude to, 190

Cotton supply: attitude to French proposals on, i. 197, 199, 294

Declaration of Paris negotiation: request to France in, i. 142, 146-7, 156, 157 and note[3]; instructions to Lyons on, 146-62 passim, 184; interviews with Adams, 141-8, 158; proposals to the United States, 153 and note[2], 170; instructions to Cowley, 156-9 passim; suggested declaration in proposed convention, 143-6, 146 note[1], 149, 151, 154, 168, 170, 201

Emancipation Proclamation: views on, ii. 101-2, 107 and note[1]

Foreign Enlistment Act: idea of amending, ii. 124; offer to United States on, 124-5; reply to Adams' pressure for alteration of, 149

Gregory's motion, i. 108

Irishmen: recruiting of, ii. 201-2

Laird Rams: conversations with Adams on, ii. 144; orders detention of, 144-5, 146, 150, 151; correspondence with the Lairds, 146; drafts protest to Mason, 147, 148 and note[1]; reply to attack on Government policy on, 149-50

Lindsay: approval of Cowley's statement to, i. 293, 294; reply to request of, for an interview, 294-5; interview with, on motion for mediation and recognition, ii. 212-13

Mediation: advice to Palmerston on reported French offer, i. 305; reply to Seward's protest, ii. 19, 25-6, 27; project of, with Palmerston, ii. 31-2, 34, 36 et seq., 91, 271; instructs Cowley to sound Thouvenel, 38; letters to Gladstone on, 40, 41; points of, 46; responsibility for, 46 note[4]; Russia approached, 45; memorandum on America, 49 and note[3]; proposal of an armistice, 31-2, 49, 53-5, 56-7; comments on Napoleon's Armistice suggestion, 61-2, 64; wish for acceptance, 62, 64; declaration of no change in British policy, 71; end of the project, 72, 155; motive in, 73; viewed as a crisis, 73; comments of, to Brunow on joint mediation offer 73 note[1]

Mercier's Richmond visit, i. 287, 288

Privateering, i. 89, 91, 159-63 passim; possible interference of, with neutrals, ii. 127, 138-150; opinion of, on intended use of privateers, 138 Proclamation of Neutrality. British position in, i. 166 note[2]; ii. 265-6

Recognition of the Confederacy: attitude to, i. 67, 74, 86, 87, 101, 108, 242, 243; ii. 54, 59, 77-8; influence of Trent affair on, i. 243; reply to Mason's requests for, ii. 25, 27; opinion of Roebuck's motion on, 166, 177; denies receipt of proposal from France on 168-9, 172

Servile War, ii. 80, 97, 98

Slavery, ii. 89, 90; view of Seward's proposal for transport of emancipated slaves, 100

Trent affair, view of, i. 212; letter to Lord Palmerston on War with America over, 215; on possible ways of settlement of, 224; instructions to Lyons on learning officially that Wilkes acted without authorization, 226

Policy of, in the American Civil War: i. 145, 202, 243, 299; ii. 271-2; declaration to Adams on, 55, 71 Attitude to Adams, i. 81; view of, i. 131; ii. 128 View of Lincoln, i. 189; ii. 263 View of Seward, i. 67, 68, 131, 235-6; improved relations with, ii. 72, 197

Criticism and view of, in The Index, ii. 51 note[2], 68, 69, 196

Otherwise mentioned, i. 96, 101 note[1], 198, 274, 277; ii. 190, 208, 254

Russell, Lady, quoted on Trent affair, i. 224 note[3]

Russell, W.H., Times correspondent, i. 44, 56, 66, 177; letters of, to the Times, 71, 177; ii. 229 note[1]; on the secession, i. 56, 177; impression of Lincoln, 61 note[2]; description of Bull Run, 177-8; ii. 229 note[1]; abhorrence of slavery, i. 71, 177; American newspaper attacks on 178 and note[2]; recall of, 178 and note[2]; ii. 228, 229 note[1]; on Napoleon's mediation offer, 68; on recognition, 166; editor of Army and Navy Gazette, ii. 68, 228, 229 and note[1]; belief of, in ultimate Northern victory, i. 178 note[2], 180; ii. 68 note[2], 228, 229 and note[1]; view of the ending of the War, 229-30; on campaigns of Grant and Sherman, 230, 232-3, 243; quoted on Delane, 254; on prospective war with America, 254; on failure of republican institutions, 277 My Diary North and South, i. 177 notes; quoted 44 note[1], 61, 71; cited, 124, 178, ii. 229 note[1]

Russia: attitude in Declaration of Paris negotiation, i. 164 note[1]; convention with United States on privateering, 171 note[1]; attitude to recognition of the South, 196 note[2]; ii. 59; and mediation, i. 283 note[1]; ii. 37 note[1], 39, 45 note[2]; British approach to, on mediation, 40, 45, and note[2]; attitude to joint mediation, 59 note[2], 63 and note[5], 66 and note[2], 70 note[2]; on joint mediation without Britain, 76 and note[1]; plan of separate mediation, 251 note[1]; Seward's request to, on withdrawal of Southern belligerent rights, 265 and note[2]; policy of friendship to United States, 45 note[2], 59 note[4], 70 note[2]; United States friendship for, 225 Polish question, ii. 129, 163 Fleets of, in Western waters: story of, in Trent affair, i. 227 note[1]; ii. 129 and note See also under Brunow, Gortchakoff, Stoeckl

St. Andre, French Acting-Consul at Charleston, i. 185, 186, 191 note[4]

Salisbury, Lord, quoted on John Bright's oratory, ii. 290 note[1]

Salt, price of, in Charleston: effect of the blockade, i. 270

San Domingo, Seward's overture to Great Britain for a convention to guarantee independence of, i. 126 note[1]

San Francisco, Russian vessels in harbour of, ii. 129 and note[1]

San Jacinto, the, i. 204, 205, 216

Saturday Review, The: views of, on Lincoln's election, i. 39; judgment of Seward, 39; views at outbreak of war, 41, 46; on Southern right of secession, 42; on Proclamation of Neutrality, 100-1; on reported American adhesion to Declaration of Paris, 146 note[1]; on slavery as an issue: attack on Mrs. H.B. Stowe, 180-1; on blockade and recognition, 183; on duration of war and cotton supply, 246 note[3]; on servile insurrection, ii. 80; and the relation between the American struggle and British institutions, 276, 277-8, 280; on the promiscuous democracy of the North, 277; on the Republic and the British Monarchy, 277-8; cited, 111, 231 note

Savannah, Ga., i. 253 note[1]; captured by Sherman, ii. 245, 249, 300-1

Scherer, Cotton as a World Power, cited, ii. 6

Schilling, C., ii. 301 note[3]

Schleiden, Rudolph, Minister of Republic of Bremen, i. 115, 116 note, 130; views of, on Seward and Lincoln, 115-6; offers services as mediator: plan of an armistice, 121, 122; visit of, to Richmond, 121-3; failure of his mediation, 122-3; report of Russian attitude to privateers, 171 note[1]; on Trent affair, 231 note[2], 242; on Lincoln and Seward's attitude to release of envoys, 231 note[2]; on attitude of Seward and Sumner to Southern Ports Bill, 248 note[3]; quoted, on slavery, ii. 111 and note[2]

Schleswig-Holstein question, i. 79; ii. 203-4

Schmidt, Wheat and Cotton during the Civil War, cited, ii. 7 notes; 167 note[1]; arguments in, examined, 13 note[2]

Scholefield, Wm., ii. 193 note

Schouler,----, on diplomatic controversies between England and America, cited, i. 35

Schroeder, quoted on Erlanger's contract to issue Confederate Cotton Loan, ii. 161-2

Schurz, Carl, papers of, in library of Congress, cited, i. 117 note; advocates declaration of an anti-slavery purpose in the war, ii. 91, 92; cited i. 83 note[2]

Schwab, The Confederate States of America, cited, ii. 156 note[1], 158 note[4], 160 notes, 162 note[3]

Scott, Winfield, American General, on Wilkes' action in Trent affair, i. 218

Sears, A Confederate Diplomat at the Court of Napoleon III, cited, i. 261 note, 289 note[2]; ii. 24 note[1]

Secession States, ports of, i. 253 note[1]

Semmes, captain of the Alabama, ii. 119

Senior, Nassau W., article on "American Slavery," i. 33; quoted, 33 note[1], 34

Servile insurrection, i. 271; ii. 83, 87; British apprehension of, i. 93; ii. 49, 79, 80, 81, 101, 110; emancipation viewed as provocative of, 49, 81, 86, 98, 101, 114; as an argument for intervention, 98, 101, 103 note[6]; use of as a threat, 18-19, 83, 94, 95, 97, 98, 100, 114

Seward, W.H., American Secretary of State, i. 39, 49, 59, 60, 64, 79, 80, 115; British view of, 60, 80, view of, as unfriendly to Great Britain, 39, 67, 68, 113-4, 125 et seq. 242; reputation as a politician, 80, 114, 115; efforts of, to secure European support for the North, 67, 137, 152; view of his relation to Lincoln, 114, 115-6, 118, 120, 127-8, 130; document "Some Thoughts for the President's Consideration," 118-9, 123, 124; advice on Fort Sumter, 118, 120; his "Despatch No. 10", 125-30, 154, 155; reversal of his policy, 130, 132; action on Britain's necessity of intercourse with the South, 164; instructions to American diplomats on slavery as issue, i. 176; ii. 95; offers facilities for transport of British troops, i. 213 note[4]; change of attitude to England, ii. 72; quarrel with Chase, 72; influence of, lessened by signing Abolition Proclamation, 100 note[2]; friendliness to Lyons, 72, 141; appreciation of Russell's expression of esteem, 147; attitude to Russell, 197; policy in regard to reunion, 197; plan of collecting import duties at Southern ports, 198; tests British-French harmony, 198; anxiety to avoid irritating incidents, 199; considers abrogation of treaties with Canada, 253-4; denies rumours of prospective foreign war, 254; accepts notification of ending of British neutrality, 268-9; meets with an accident, 257; attempted murder of, 257-8, 265

Diplomatic action and views of, with regard to:

Belligerent rights to South denial of, i. 87, 102, 169, 233, ii. 182; remonstrance on concession of, i. 247, 274, proposes withdrawal of, ii. 264-5, 266; See also under Declaration of Paris and Neutrality infra.

Blockade, i. 54 note[1], 65, 246, 295; interviews with Lyons on, 244, 245, 246, 251, 256, 257; suggested alleviation of, i. 274 Southern Ports Bill: reassures Lord Lyons' on American intentions in, i. 249; attitude to issue of, 248 note[3], 250, 251, 252; on closing of ports by proclamation, 250, 252 Stone Boat Fleet blockade: statement on, i. 256-7

Bunch affair, i. 184, 189, 191 and note[4], 192, 193, 194 and note[1]

Confederate debts: statement on, ii. 197

Confederate envoys: British intercourse with, i. 105

Confederate shipbuilding in Britain: ii. 121, 139, 140; effect of seizure of the Alexandra on, 140; despatch on Alexandra case decision, 143 and note[2]; refuses to allow British Consul through the blockade, 148

Cotton: on proposed French intervention to secure, i. 198, 200; promises of, based on capture of New Orleans, ii. 16

Declaration of Paris negotiation, i. 137, 141, 145, 147, 150 et seq.; statement in refusing convention as modified by Russell, 145; motives in, 150-2, 153, 169; hope to influence foreign attitude to Southern belligerent rights, 150-1, 162, 164, 165, 169; as part of foreign war policy: considered, 153-4, 155-6

Emancipation Proclamation: urges postponement of, ii. 37. 85, 95, 96, 98, 114; informed as to effect of, on intervention, 98, 99 comments on purpose of, 99-100 the "high moral purpose" argument, ii. 100; proposes convention for transport of emancipated slaves, 100

Hampton Roads Conference, ii. 252; attitude to Britain after, 253-4

Intervention: attitude to, i. 145, 178, 200; threat of servile war and, ii. 18-19, 22, 95; instructions to Adams on, 35-6, 96-7; view of the effect of emancipation, on, 98, 114. See also Mediation infra.

Irish Emigrants: enlistment of, ii. 201

Mediation: attitude to, i. 283 note[1], 297; ii. 18, 57 note[2]; by France, i. 283 note[1]; by Russia, 283 note[1]; view of England's refusal to act with France in, ii. 71, 72; declines French offer of, 76 See also Intervention supra.

Mercier's Richmond visit, i. 280-4, 286; statement to Lyons: view of Confederate position, 286; newspaper statement on, 287

Napoleon's Mexican policy: attitude to, ii. 198

Neutrality Proclamations: representations on, i. 100, 101; despatch on American view of, 101, 103 note[1], 134; refusal to receive officially, 102-3, 132, 133, 153 and note[2], 164; efforts to secure recall of, 152-3, 169, 198, 234, 274-5, 300, 301

Privateering, i. 160; convention with Russia, 171 note. See also Southern Privateering infra.

"Privateering Bill:" use of, ii. 121 note[3], 141, 151; on the purpose and use of the privateers, 122-3, 125, 137, 143; conversations with Lyons on, 125, 126; on necessity for issuing letters of marque, 126, 143; advised by Adams against issue of privateers, 131, 139

Recognition of Southern Independence, i. 65, 74, 198

Servile War threat, ii. 18-19, 22, 83, 95, 98

Slave Trade Treaty with Great Britain, i. 10, 275, 276; ii. 90

Southern privateering: view of, i. 104, 105; efforts to influence European attitude to, i. 104, 150-1, 154, 162, 164, 169; attitude on issue of privateers from British ports, ii. 126, 127

Trent affair: reception of British demands in, i. 230, 232, 233; on Wilkes' action, 231; attitude to release of envoys, 231 and note[2], 232, 233, 234, 236; British opinion on Seward in, 239

Foreign Policy: high tone, i. 236, 252 and note[1], 301; restoration of the Union as basis of, 236; influences affecting, ii. 95, 100

Foreign war panacea, i. 60, 113, 120, 123-4, 125, 126 note[1], 127, 130, 132, 134-5, 137, 154, 155, 214; appreciation of, 136.

Southern conciliation policy of, i. 49, 83, 117, 118, 120-1, 123, 125; expectations from Union sentiment in the South, 60, 117; aids Schieiden's Richmond visit, 121-3; communications with Confederate Commissioners, 117-8, 120

Appreciation and criticism of: by British statesmen and press in 1865.... ii. 257; Times tribute to, 257; Horace Greeley's attack on, i. 280 note[1]; Gregory's attack on, i. 269; Lyons' view of, i. 59, 60; Adams' admiration for i. 80, 127

British suspicion of, i. 113, 114, 128, 133, 136, 227, 235-6; ii. 101 note[1]; the Newcastle story, 80, 114, 216, 227; Thurlow Weeds' efforts to remove, 227; Adams' view, 227

Otherwise mentioned, i. 66, 163 notes, 177, 186, 188, 209, 212, 213, 217; ii. 39, 84, 123 note[2], 170, 173, 175, 223, 225, 245 note[1], 259, 281

Shelburne, Earl of, i. 240

Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah, views in French press on, ii. 236 note[2]

Sherman, General: Atlanta campaign of, ii. 217; captures Atlanta, 233; march to the sea, 243-5; captures Savannah, 245, 249, 300-1; campaign against Johnston, 248; reports of pillaging and burning by his army, 265; mentioned, 215 Russell, W.H., views of, on Sherman's campaigns, ii. 230, 232-3, 243 Times view of his campaigns, ii. 212, 227, 232, 243-6

Shiloh, General Grant's victory at, i. 278

Shipbuilding by Confederates in neutral ports, ii. 116, 117 note[1], 128; Continental opinion of international law on, 121 note[1]

Shipping Gazette, quoted, ii. 14

Shrewsbury, Earl of, cited on democracy in America and its failure, ii. 282

Slavery: cotton supplies and, i. 13; controversy in America on, 32, 36; English opinion on, 31-5, 37-8, 40; as an issue in the Civil War, 45, 46, 173, 175, 176, 179, 181, 241, 242; ii. 78, 88-93, 222; Confederates identified with, i. 71; ii. 220; Southern arguments for, 3 and note[2]; attitude of the North to, 78; growth of anti-slavery sentiment, 83, 84; failure of the slaves to rise, 86; Northern declaration on, urged, 98-9, 107; British public meetings on, 109 note[2]; Southern declaration on, 106. See also African Slave Trade, Emancipation, Servile Insurrection, etc.

Slidell, John, "Special Commissioner of the Confederates" to France, i. 203; captured on the Trent, 204-5, 234 and note[2]; connection of with Napoleon's Mexican policy, 261 note[1]; plan of action of, 264-5; received by Thouvenel, 266 note[1]; view on Continental and British interests in the blockade, 267 note[3], 273; view of Mercier's Richmond visit, 228; on Lindsay's interviews with Napoleon, 292; views of, on the capture of New Orleans, 296; idea to demand recognition from France, 306, 307; ii. 25, 28; hopes of mediation by France, ii. 19, 25; interview of, with Napoleon, 23, 24; makes offers to Napoleon and to Thouvenel, 24, 25; letter to Benjamin on failure to secure intervention, 29; interview with Napoleon on Armistice, 59 and note[2], 60; memorandum of, to the Emperor, asking for separate recognition, 75; on shipbuilding for Confederates in France, 128; quoted on position of France in relation to mediation, 155; and Confederate Cotton Loan, 158 and note[3], 159, 161, 163; interview of, with Napoleon, on recognition, 167; and Napoleon's instruction on recognition in Roebuck's motion, 168-9, 172; and Mason's recall, 180, 181, 182; opinion of Russell, 213; suggestion on Lindsay's motion, 213; disappointment at result of Mason's interview with Palmerston, 215; opinion on European attitude to the South, 215; interview with Napoleon on the abolition of slavery in return for recognition, 249-50; quoted on Lee's surrender 256-7; appreciation of as diplomatic agent, ii. 25, 180 note[3]; correspondence of, i. 261 note; otherwise mentioned, ii. 154 note[1]. See also under heading Confederate Commissioners

Smith, Goldwin, ii. 136 note[2], 189 note[2]; on Gladstone and Canada, 69, 70 note[1]; quoted on the influence of the Times, 178 note[3], 189 note[2]; on the Daily Telegraph, 189 note[2]; tribute of, to T.B. Potter, 224 note[3]; view of the Times attitude to democracy, 299; criticism of the privileged classes of Great Britain, 303-4 America and England in their present relations, quoted, ii. 304, and note[2] Civil War, The, in America, cited, ii. 223 note[2], 224 note[3]; quoted, 304 note[1] Does the Bible sanction American Slavery?" ii. 110 Letter, A, to a Whig Member of the Southern Independence Association, ii. 194-5; quoted, 299