Note 702 — Chapter X

Lyons Papers. Lyons to Stuart, July 5, 1862. "Public opinion will not allow the Government to do more for the North than maintain a strict neutrality, and it may not be easy to do that if there comes any strong provocation from the U.S. ..." "However, the real question of the day is cotton...." "The problem is of how to get over this next winter. The prospects of the manufacturing districts are very gloomy." "...If you can manage in any way to get a supply of cotton for England before the winter, you will have done a greater service than has been effected by Diplomacy for a century; but nobody expects it."