that “King Cotton,” was not, after all, powerful enough to compel British recognition and support.  He stated that Southerners, angry at the failure to secure recognition, were loudly proclaiming that they both could and would humble and embarrass Great Britain (F.O., Am., Vol. 781.  No. 82.  Bunch to Russell, July 8, 1861).  Bunch wrote on July 23 that the South planned to hold back its cotton until Great Britain and France raised the blockade (Ibid., No. 87).  Bunch was now impressed with Southern determination.]

[Footnote 531:  The seven ports were Norfolk (Virginia), Wilmington (North Carolina), Charleston (South Carolina), Savannah (Georgia), Mobile (Alabama), New Orleans (Louisiana), and Galveston (Texas).]

[Footnote 532:  The first important reference to the blockade after mid-August, 1861, is in an order to Bunch, conveyed through Lyons, not to give advice to British merchants in Charleston as to blockade runners that had gotten into port having any “right” to go out again (F.O., Am., Vol. 757.  No. 402.  Russell to Lyons, Nov. 8, 1861).]

[Footnote 533:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence on Civil War in the United States.”  No. 125.  Lyons to Russell, Nov. 25, 1861.  Received Dec. 9.]

[Footnote 534:  Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell, Nov. 29, 1861.]

[Footnote 535:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence on Civil War in the United States.”  No. 127.]

[Footnote 536:  Ibid., No. 126.  Lyons to Russell, Nov. 29, 1861.  Received Dec. 12.]

[Footnote 537:  Punch, Feb. 1, 1862.]

[Footnote 538:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence on Civil War in the United States.”  No. 141.]

[Footnote 539:  Ibid., No. 142.  Jan. 15, 1861.]

[Footnote 540:  Ibid., No. 143.]

[Footnote 541:  James, W.  W. Story, II, p. 111, Jan. 21, 1862.]

[Footnote 542:  Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Correspondence on Civil War in the United States.”  No. 153.  Lyons to Russell, Jan. 14, 1862.  Received Jan. 27.]

[Footnote 543:  Ibid., Lords, Vol.  XXV.  “Despatch from Lord Lyons respecting the Obstruction of the Southern Harbours.”  Lyons to Russell, Feb. 11, 1862.  Received Feb. 24.]

[Footnote 544:  Thompson and Wainwright, Confidential Correspondence of G.V.  Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-65, I, p. 79.  Du Pont to Fox, Dec. 16, 1861.  Hereafter cited as Fox, Confid.  Corresp.  This letter shows clearly also that the Navy had no thought of a permanent obstruction.]

[Footnote 545:  Vide Arnold, Friendship’s Garland.]

[Footnote 546:  Thouvenel, Le Secret de l’Empereur, II, 249.  Thouvenel could mistakenly write to Mercier on March 13, 1862.  “Nous ne voulons pas cependant imposer une forme de gouvernement aux Mexicains...”]