[Footnote 1131:  Ibid., Spence to Mason, Dec. 7, 1863.]

[Footnote 1132:  The Index, Dec. 10, 1863, p. 518.]

[Footnote 1133:  The success of pro-Northern meetings in London was ignored.  Lord Bryce once wrote to C.F.  Adams, “My recollection is that while many public meetings were held all over Great Britain by those who favoured the cause which promised the extinction of Slavery, no open (i.e., non-ticket) meeting ever expressed itself on behalf of the South, much as its splendid courage was admired.” (Letter, Dec. 1, 1913, in Mass.  Hist.  Soc. Proceedings, Vol.  XLVII, p. 55.) No doubt many of these pro-Southern meetings were by ticket, but that many were not is clear from the reports in The Index.]

[Footnote 1134:  Mason Papers.  Spence to Mason, Dec. 17, 1863.]

[Footnote 1135:  Ibid., The weight of the Times is here evident even though Goldwin Smith’s statement, made in a speech at Providence, R.I., in 1864, be true that the London Daily Telegraph, a paper not committed to either side in America, had three times the circulation of the Times. (The Liberator, Sept. 30, 1864.) Smith’s speech was made on the occasion of receiving the degree of LL.D. from Brown University.]

[Footnote 1136:  Ibid., That Mason did contribute Confederate funds to Spence’s meetings comes out in later correspondence, but the amount is uncertain.]

[Footnote 1137:  The Index, Dec. 17, 1863, p. 532.  “The attendance of representatives was numerous, and the greatest interest was manifested throughout the proceedings.  Manchester was represented by Mr. W. R. Callender (Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee), and by Messrs. Pooley, J. H. Clarke, T. Briggs, Rev. Geo. Huntington, Rev. W. Whitelegge, Messrs. Armstrong, Stutter, Neild, Crowther, Stenhouse, Parker, Hough, W. Potter, Bromley, etc.  Mr. Mortimer Collins, the Secretary of the Association, was also present.  The districts were severally represented by the following gentlemen:  Stockport—­Messrs. Constantine and Leigh; Rochdale—­Mr. Thos.  Staley; Bradford—­Mr. J. Leach; Hyde—­Messrs. Wild and Fletcher; Glossop—­Mr. C. Schofield; Oldham—­Messrs. Whittaker, Steeple, and Councillor Harrop; Delf and Saddleworth—­Mr. Lees, J.P.; Macclesfield—­Messrs. Cheetham and Bridge; Heywood—­Mr. Fairbrother; Middleton—­Mr. Woolstencroft; Alderley (Chorley)—–­Mr. J. Beesley, etc., etc.”]

[Footnote 1138:  So reported by The Index, Jan. 14, 1864, p. 20, in comment on speeches being made by Forster and Massie throughout Lancashire.]

[Footnote 1139:  The Index, Jan. 14, 1864, p. 22.]

[Footnote 1140:  Mason Papers.  To Mason.]

[Footnote 1141:  The Liberator, Dec. 26, 1862, giving an extract from the London Morning Star of Dec. 4, and a letter from George Thompson.]

[Footnote 1142:  U.S.  Diplomatic Correspondence, 1863, Pt. 1, p. 18.  Adams to Seward, Dec. 18, 1862, enclosing a pamphlet issued by the Association.]