Chapter 58

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 slaves to rise, 86; Northern declaration on, urged, 98-9, 107; British public meetings on, 109 _note_[2]; Southern declaration on, 106. _See also_ African Slave Trade, Emancipation, Servile Insurrection, etc. Slidell, John, "Special Commissioner of the Confederates" to France, i. 203; captured on the _Trent_, 204-5, 234 _and note_[2]; connection of with Napoleon's Mexican policy, 261 _note_[1]; plan of action of, 264-5; received by Thouvenel, 266 _note_[1]; view on Continental and British interests in the blockade, 267 _note_[3], 273; view of Mercier's Richmond visit, 228; on Lindsay's interviews with Napoleon, 292; views of, on the capture of New Orleans, 296; idea to demand recognition from France, 306, 307; ii. 25, 28; hopes of mediation by France, ii. 19, 25; interview of, with Napoleon, 23, 24; makes offers to Napoleon and to Thouvenel, 24, 25; letter to Benjamin on failure to secure intervention, 29; interview with Napoleon on Armistice, 59 _and note_[2], 60; memorandum of, to the Emperor, asking for separate recognition, 75; on shipbuilding for Confederates in France, 128; quoted on position of France in relation to mediation, 155; and Confederate Cotton Loan, 158 _and note_[3], 159, 161, 163; interview of, with Napoleon, on recognition, 167; and Napoleon's instruction on recognition in Roebuck's motion, 168-9, 172; and Mason's recall, 180, 181, 182; opinion of Russell, 213; suggestion on Lindsay's motion, 213; disappointment at result of Mason's interview with Palmerston, 215; opinion on European attitude to the South, 215; interview with Napoleon on the abolition of slavery in return for recognition, 249-50; quoted on Lee's surrender 256-7; appreciation of as diplomatic agent, ii. 25, 180 _note_[3]; correspondence of, i. 261 _note_; otherwise mentioned, ii. 154 _note_[1]. _See also under heading_ Confederate Commissioners Smith, Goldwin, ii. 136 _note_[2], 189 _note_[2]; on Gladstone and Canada, 69, 70 _note_[1]; quoted on the influence of the _Times_, 178 _note_[3], 189 _note_[2]; on the _Daily Telegraph_, 189 _note_[2]; tribute of, to T.B. Potter, 224 _note_[3]; view of the _Times_ attitude to democracy, 299; criticism of the privileged classes of Great Britain, 303-4 _America and England in their present relations_, quoted, ii. 304, _and note_[2] _Civil War, The, in America_, cited, ii. 223 _note_[2], 224 _note_[3]; quoted, 304 _note_[1] Does the Bible sanction American Slavery?" ii. 110 _Letter, A, to a Whig Member of the Southern Independence Association_, ii. 194-5; quoted, 299 Smith, T.C., _Parties and Slavery_, cited, ii. 3 _note_[2] Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America, ii. 207; letters of, to Members of Parliament, 207-8, 210-11; deputation of, to Palmerston, 216 Somerset, Duke of, i. 207 South Carolina, secession of, i. 41, 44; _Times_ view on, 55; and restoration of Colonial relations: some British misconceptions on, 43, 44 _and note_ Southern Independence Association, The, ii. 185, 189, 191-5, 204, 220, 298; cessation of meetings of, 193-4, 222-3; apathy and dissension in, 205, 207, 208; resolution and deputation to Palmerston, 210-2, 216; ticket meetings, 239; Oldham meeting, 239, 240 Southern Ports Bill. _See_ Blockade Southern States: attitude of, to protection policy, i. 21, 47; and reciprocity treaty with British-American provinces, 21-2; influences directing British trade to, 22; British press attitude to, 40-48 _passim_; characterization of, 41; right of secession, 42, 82, 175, 176, 269; tariff as a cause for secession, 47; question of recognition considered, 58; secession, 172-3; preparations for war, 172; recognized as belligerents, 190, 191, 172; expulsion of British Consuls, by, ii. 148 _note_[2]; activities of British friends of, 152, 187-8, 190, 193-4, 239, 298; Conservative hopes for success of, 300; views on French attitude, ii. 236 _note_[2]; effect of the fall of Savannah on, 246; end of the Confederacy, 248, 259, 268; hope of, from "foreign war," 252; effect on, of Lincoln's assassination 258; withdrawal of belligerent rights to, 264-6; end of the war; naval policy towards, 266-7 Belligerent rights, recognition of, i. 87, 88, 95, 108, 109, 150, 151, 155, 166 _note_[3]. _See_ Neutrality Proclamations. Commissioners of, _See under_ Confederate Commissioners Cotton, obsession as to, i. 252 _note_[2]; ii. 4, 5 Cotton Loan, ii. 155 _et seq._ 179; reception of, in England, 160-1; amounts realized by, 162 Declaration of Paris negotiation: attitude to, i. 186 Finance, ii. 156 _et seq._ Hampton Roads Conference: suggestions in, ii. 252-3 Leaders of: British information on, i. 58-9 Manifesto to Europe, ii. 241 _and note_[2], 242 Mediation: feeling in, on England's refusal of, ii. 71 _and note_[2]; hope of change in British policy on, 213-4 Military resources: decline of, ii. 219; desertions from the Army, 222 Negroes, arming of, ii. 240-1, 251 Privateering. _See that heading._ Recognition of independence: anger at failure to secure, i. 252 _note_[2]; desire for, without mediation, ii. 217 Secret service funds, ii. 154 _note_[1] Shipbuilding in British ports for, ii. 115 _et seq._; British protest to, on, 148. _See also under_ Alabama, Laird Rams, Oreto, etc. Slavery attitude, ii. 88 _and note_[3]; intention of gradual emancipation, 98; British views on, 220; offer of abolition in return for recognition, 249-51 Spain, and Mexican debts, i. 259, 260 Spargo, _Karl Marx_, cited, ii. 292 _note_[1] _Spectator_, The, i. 70 _note_[1]; ii. 231 _note_; constant advocacy of Northern cause, i. 39; on Lincoln's election, 39; views on the Civil War, 41, 69, 100, 181; on secession, 57; on Proclamation of Neutrality, 100, 136 _note_[1]; attacks Bulwer Lytton's speech on dissolution of the Union, 182; on servile insurrection and emancipation, ii. 79, 80; on British Press attitude to emancipation, 89; on declaration of anti-slavery purpose in the war, 89; on the Emancipation Proclamation, 104-5; on British lack of sympathy with the North, 280; on anti-slavery sympathies and view of democracy in England, 280; otherwise mentioned, i. 180; ii. 105, 223 _note_[1], 282 Spence, James, i. 183 _note_[2], 266 _and note_[2]; conferences of, in London, 266, 267, 272 _and note_[1], 273; prevents demonstration by cotton operatives, 300; plan to appeal to the Tories, ii. 153, 155, 164; as Confederate financial adviser, 156, 157, 158; and Confederate Cotton Loan, 159, 161-2; urges withdrawal of Roebuck's motion, 173-4; effect of the fall of Vicksburg on, 179; organization of Southern Clubs by, 186-7, 188, 189, 190; hopes for intervention, 187-8, 189-90; organization of Southern Independence Association by, 191; organization of meetings by, 191, 222-3; organizes petitions to Parliament, 193; comments of, on the Palmerston-Mason interview, 216-7; on slavery clause in Southern Independence Association's address, 220 Slidell's opinion of, i. 266 _note_[3]; ii. 159; Otherwise mentioned, i. 302; ii. 49 _note_[2], 181, 193 _The American Union_, i. 183 _and note_[2], 266 _note_[3];