Chapter 27

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_, The, ii. 109 _note_[3]; 279 _and note_[3]

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,