[Footnote 269:  Ibid., p. 64.]

[Footnote 270:  Ibid., p. 60.]

[Footnote 271:  Ibid., p. 58.]

[Footnote 272:  Bancroft says June 8.  But see ante, p. 130.]

[Footnote 273:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence respecting International Maritime Law.”  No. 1.  It was with reference to this that Palmerston, on May 5, wrote to Russell:  “If any step were thought advisable, perhaps the best mode of our feeling our way would be to communicate confidentially with the South by the men who have come over here from thence, and with the North by Dallas, who is about to return in a few days.  Dallas, it is true, is not a political friend of Lincoln, but on the contrary rather leans to the South; but still he might be an organ, if it should be deemed prudent to take any step.” (Palmerston MS.)]

[Footnote 274:  Hansard, 3rd.  Ser., Vol.  CLXII, p. 1763.]

[Footnote 275:  Ibid., pp. 1830-34.]

[Footnote 276:  This instruction never got into the printed Parliamentary papers, nor did any others of the many containing the like suggestion, for they would have revealed a persistence by Russell against French advice—­to which he ultimately was forced to yield—­a persistence in seeking to bind the belligerents on the first article of the Declaration of Paris, as well as on articles two and three.  The points at which Russell returned to this idea are indicated in this chapter.]

[Footnote 277:  F.O., France, Vol. 1376.  No. 563.  Draft.]

[Footnote 278:  F.O., France, Vol. 1390.  No. 684.  Cowley to Russell, May 9, 1861.]

[Footnote 279:  F.O., France, Vol. 1391.  No. 713.  Cowley to Russell, May 13, 1861.]

[Footnote 280:  Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, II, p. 40.]

[Footnote 281:  F.O., France, Vol. 1391.  No. 733.]

[Footnote 282:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence respecting International Maritime Law.”  No. 5.]

[Footnote 283:  Ibid., No. 6.  Note that this and the preceding document are all that appeared in the Parliamentary Papers.  Thouvenel’s amendment of Russell’s plan did not appear.]

[Footnote 284:  U.S.  Messages and Documents, 1861-2, Adams to Seward, May 21, 1861.]

[Footnote 285:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence respecting International Maritime Law.”  No. 7.]

[Footnote 286:  The text of these proclamations, transmitted by Lyons, had been officially received in London on May 10.]

[Footnote 287:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence respecting International Maritime Law.”  No. 8.]

[Footnote 288:  F.O., Am., Vol. 755.  No. 139.  “Seen by Ld.  P. and the Queen.”]

[Footnote 289:  Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell, June 4, 1861. (Printed in Newton, Lyons, I, 42.)]