Chapter 44

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,