Chapter 29

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;