(J.H.  Pope to Gait, Dec. 26, 1861) and the Toronto Globe attacked the Times for the creation of bad feeling.  The general attitude was that if British policy resulted in an American blow at Canada, it was a British, not a Canadian duty, to maintain her defence (Skelton, Life of Sir Alexander Tilloch Gait, pp. 340, 348.) Yet the author states that in the beginning Canada went through the same phases of feeling on the Trent as did Great Britain.]

[Footnote 443:  A Cycle of Adams’ Letters, I, pp. 81-2.]

[Footnote 444:  Ibid., I, p. 83.  Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Dec. 13, 1861.]

[Footnote 445:  Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell.  Private.  Nov. 29, 1861.]

[Footnote 446:  See the Times, Dec. 14, 1861.  Here for the first time the Times used the expression “the last card” as applied to emancipation.]

[Footnote 447:  Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Dec. 11, 1861.]

[Footnote 448:  Gladstone Papers.  Russell to Gladstone, Dec. 13, 1861.  On the same day Lady Russell wrote Lady Dumfermline:  “There can be no doubt that we have done deeds very like that of Captain Wilkes.... but I wish we had not done them....  It is all terrible and awful, and I hope and pray war may be averted—­and whatever may have been the first natural burst of indignation in this country, I believe it would be ready to execrate the Ministry if all right and honourable means were not taken to prevent so fearful a calamity.” (Dana, The Trent Affair.  (Proceedings, Mass.  Hist.  Soc., XLV, p. 528.))]

[Footnote 449:  A Cycle of Adams’ Letters, I, p. 87.  Charles Francis Adams to his son, Dec. 20, 1861. ]

[Footnote 450:  The Times, Dec. 16, 1861.]

[Footnote 451:  The Times twice printed the full text of the message, on December 16 and 17.]

[Footnote 452:  Gladstone Papers.  Milner-Gibson to Gladstone, Dec. 18, 1861.]

[Footnote 453:  Maxwell, Clarendon, II, p. 225.  Lewis to Clarendon, Dec. 18, 1861.]

[Footnote 454:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence respecting the Trent.”  No 14.  Russell to Lyons, Dec. 19, 1861.  The Government did not make public Adams’ confirmation of “no authorization of Wilkes.”  Possibly it saw no reason for doing so, since this had been established already by Wilkes’ own statements.  The point was later a matter of complaint by Americans, who regarded it as indicating a peevish and unfriendly attitude. (Willard, Letter to an English Friend on the Rebellion in the United States, p. 23.  Boston, 1862.) Also by English friends; Cobden thought Palmerston had intentionally prolonged British feeling for political purposes.  “Seward’s despatch to Adams on the 19th December [communicated to Russell on the 19th]... virtually settled the matter.  To keep alive the wicked passions in this country as Palmerston and his Post did, was like the man, and that is the worst that can be said of it.” (Morley, Cobden, II, p. 389.  To Mr. Paulton, Jan., 1862.)]