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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 of envoys, 231 _and note_[2], 232, 233, 234, 236; British opinion on Seward in, 239 Foreign Policy: high tone, i. 236, 252 _and note_[1], 301; restoration of the Union as basis of, 236; influences affecting, ii. 95, 100 Foreign war panacea, i. 60, 113, 120, 123-4, 125, 126 _note_[1], 127, 130, 132, 134-5, 137, 154, 155, 214; appreciation of, 136. Southern conciliation policy of, i. 49, 83, 117, 118, 120-1, 123, 125; expectations from Union sentiment in the South, 60, 117; aids Schieiden's Richmond visit, 121-3; communications with Confederate Commissioners, 117-8, 120 Appreciation and criticism of: by British statesmen and press in 1865.... ii. 257; _Times_ tribute to, 257; Horace Greeley's attack on, i. 280 _note_[1]; Gregory's attack on, i. 269; Lyons' view of, i. 59, 60; Adams' admiration for i. 80, 127 British suspicion of, i. 113, 114, 128, 133, 136, 227, 235-6; ii. 101 _note_[1]; the Newcastle story, 80, 114, 216, 227; Thurlow Weeds' efforts to remove, 227; Adams' view, 227 Otherwise mentioned, i. 66, 163 _notes_, 177, 186, 188, 209, 212, 213, 217; ii. 39, 84, 123 _note_[2], 170, 173, 175, 223, 225, 245 _note_[1], 259, 281 Shelburne, Earl of, i. 240 Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah, views in French press on, ii. 236 _note_[2] Sherman, General: Atlanta campaign of, ii. 217; captures Atlanta, 233; march to the sea, 243-5; captures Savannah, 245, 249, 300-1; campaign against Johnston, 248; reports of pillaging and burning by his army, 265; mentioned, 215 Russell, W.H., views of, on Sherman's campaigns, ii. 230, 232-3, 243 _Times_ view of his campaigns, ii. 212, 227, 232, 243-6 Shiloh, General Grant's victory at, i. 278 Shipbuilding by Confederates in neutral ports, ii. 116, 117 _note_[1], 128; Continental opinion of international law on, 121 _note_[1] _Shipping Gazette_, quoted, ii. 14 Shrewsbury, Earl of, cited on democracy in America and its failure, ii. 282 Slavery: cotton supplies and, i. 13; controversy in America on, 32, 36; English opinion on, 31-5, 37-8, 40; as an issue in the Civil War, 45, 46, 173, 175, 176, 179, 181, 241, 242;