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interview of, with Schleiden, 122, 123; discussion of, with Seward on Confederate foreign war plan, ii. 252 Stevenson, American Minister to London, letter of, to Palmerston, quoted, i. 109-10 Stoeckl, Russian Minister at Washington: view of the secession, i. 53 _note_[3]; on Russian policy in Declaration of Paris negotiations, 164 _note_[1]; on privateers in Northern Pacific, 171 _note_[1]; and recognition of the South, 196 _note_[3], and Mercier's Richmond visit, 283 _and note_[1]; on mediation, 283 _note_[1]; ii. 37 _and note_[1], 59 _note_[4], 70 _note_[2], 76; comments of, on Emancipation Proclamation, 107 _note_[1]; on the reconciliation of North and South followed by a foreign war, 251; Seward's request to, on withdrawal of Southern belligerent rights, 265; views on probable policy of Britain at the beginning of the Civil War, 269-70, 271; on the Civil War as a warning against democracy, 297 _note_[4]; Otherwise mentioned, i. 54 _note_[1]; ii. 45 _note_[2] Stone Boat Fleet. _See_ Blockade. Story, William Wetmore, i. 228, 256; letters of, in _Daily News_, 228 _and note_[4] Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher, and the _Saturday Review_, i. 181; mentioned, ii. 89-90, 109 _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, i. 33 _and note_[1] Stowell, Lord, i. 208 Stuart--, British Minister at Washington: report of new Northern levies of men, ii. 30; on recognition, 30 _and note_[3]; views on British policy, 30 _note_[3]; attitude to intervention and recognition, 36, 37, 66 _note_[3]; report of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, 37, 98; suggestion of armistice, 47; account of Federal "reprisals," 66 _note_[3]; on servile insurrection, 97; describes Emancipation proclamation as a _brutum fulmen_, 101 Otherwise mentioned, ii. 25, 26, 66 _note_[3], 70, 100, 101 _note_[1] Sturge, Joseph, _A Visit to the United States in_ 1841, cited, i. 29 Sumner, Charles, i. 79, 80; Brooks' attack on, 33, 80; hope of, for appointment as Minister to England, 55 _and note_[2]; views on annexation of Canada, 55; in _Trent_ affair, 231, 232, 234 _note_[3]; attitude to Southern Ports Bill, 248 _and note_[3]; advocacy of abolition, ii. 81, 90; conversations with Lincoln on abolition, 82, 86; attitude to Privateering Bill, 123, 124; otherwise mentioned, i. 49 _note_, 83, 130 _note_[1], 220;