Great Britain and the American Civil War

The adjournment of Parliament on August 7 without hint of governmental inclination to act in the American Civil War was accepted by most of the British public as evidence that t...

The _Trent_ affair seemed to Great Britain like the climax of American arrogance[399]. The Confederate agents sent to Europe at the outbreak of the Civil War had accomplished li...

It has been remarked by the American historian, Schouler, that immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War, diplomatic controversies between England and America had largely...

The finality of the British Cabinet decision in November, 1862, relative to proposals of mediation or intervention was not accepted at the moment though time was to prove its pe...

The building in British ports of Confederate war vessels like the _Alabama_ and the subsequent controversy and arbitration in relation thereto have been exhaustively studied and...

In June, 1859, a short-lived Conservative Government under the leadership of Lord Derby had been replaced by a "coalition" Liberal Government, at the head of which stood Palmers...

In the mid-period during which the British Government was seeking to fulfil its promise of an altered policy as regards ship-building and while the public was unaware that such...

If regarded merely from the view-point of strict chronology there accompanied Seward's "foreign war" policy a negotiation with Great Britain which was of importance as the first...

Northern friends in England were early active in organizing public meetings and after the second emancipation proclamation of January 1, 1863, these became both numerous and not...

For two weeks there was no lightening of Southern depression in England. But on June 28 McClellan had been turned back from his advance on Richmond by Lee, the new commander of...

On May 8, 1865, the news was received in London of Johnston's surrender to Sherman. On that same day there occurred in the Commons the first serious debate in thirty-three years...

The six months following the affair of the _Trent_ constituted a period of comparative calm in the relations of Great Britain and America, but throughout that period there was s...

In 1862, less than a year after he had assumed his post in London, the American Minister, Charles Francis Adams, at a time of depression and bitterness wrote to Secretary of Sta...

The diplomatic manoeuvres and interchanges recounted in the preceding chapter were regarded by Foreign Secretaries and Ministers as important in themselves and as indicative of...

After three years of great Northern efforts to subdue the South and of Southern campaigns aimed, first, merely toward resistance, but later involving offensive battles, the Civi...

"I think you need not trouble yourself about England. At this moment opinion seems to have undergone a complete change, and our people and indeed our Government is more moderate...

The incidents narrated in the preceding chapter have been considered solely from the point of view of a formal American contention as to correct international practice and the B...

The friendly atmosphere created by the lifting of the threatening _Trent_ episode, appears to have made Secretary Seward believe that the moment was opportune for a renewal of p...

"secret understanding" on the blockade, but that if France should make a definite proposal it would probably be supported by a majority in Parliament, and that Russell would be...

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 secessi...

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 firs...

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. 19...

_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...

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 sla...

Tariff Bill (U.S.) of 1816, i. 19; of 1828, 21 Taylor, P.A., abolitionist, ii. 224; eulogy of George Thompson, 224 _note_[1] Taylor, Tom, poem by, in _Punch_, on the death of Li...

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 meet...

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 th...

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...

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 _an...

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,...

Trescott, William Henry, i. 186, 188 _Tribune_, The New York, cited, i. 280 _note_[1] Trimble, W., "Surplus Food Production of the United States," cited, ii. 13 _note_[2] Trollo...

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 offe...

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...

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] Br...

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 o...

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...

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 Dec...

interview of, with Schleiden, 122, 123; discussion of, with Seward on Confederate foreign war plan, ii. 252 Stevenson, American Minister to London, letter of, to Palmerston, quo...

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 _...

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...

their face value. Lyons certainly so accepted them and there is nothing in French documents yet published to cast doubt on Mercier's honour, while the chronology of the Confeder...

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 _no...

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 a...

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 Ca...

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...

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...

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. Russel...

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, 19...

American national approbation of, 219-20; Seward on, 233; his action officially stated to be unauthorized, 226, 254 Wilmington, N.C., i. 253 _note_[1]; ii. 247 Wilson, President...

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, 1...

"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 Pres...

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 harb...

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, 1...

Spencer, Herbert, quoted, i. 38 Spurgeon, C. H., prayer of, for victory of the North, ii. 109-110 Stanley of Alderley, Lord, ii. 42 Stephen, Leslie, meeting of, with Seward, ii....

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...

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 fea...