[Footnote 1143:  Its appeal for funds was addressed in part to women.  “Fairest and best of earth! for the sake of violated innocence, insulted virtue, and the honour of your sex, come in woman’s majesty and omnipotence and give strength to a cause that has for its object the highest human aims—­the amelioration and exaltation of humanity.”]

[Footnote 1144:  The Index, Jan. 14, 1864, p. 23.  The committee of organization was as follows:—­

     The Most Noble the Marquis of Lothian,
     The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath,
     The Lord Robert Cecil, M.P.,
     The Lord Eustace Cecil,
     The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe. 
     The Right Honourable Lord Campbell,
     The Hon. C. Fitzwilliam, M.P.,
     The Honourable Robt.  Bourke,
     Edward Akroyd, Esq., Halifax,
     Colonel Greville, M.P.,
     W.H.  Gregory, Esq., M.P.,
     T.C.  Haliburton, Esq., M.P.,
     A.J.B.  Beresford Hope, Esq.,
     W.S.Lindsay, Esq., M.P.,
     G.M.W.  Peacocke, Esq., M.P.,
     Wm. Scholefield, Esq., M.P.,
     James Spence, Esq., Liverpool,
     William Vansittart, Esq., M.P.

* * * * *

     Chairman:  A.J.B.  Beresford Hope, Esq. 
     Treasurer:  The Lord Eustace Cecil.
]

[Footnote 1145:  The Liberator, Feb. 26, 1864.]

[Footnote 1146:  The Index, March 17, 1864, p. 174.  An amusing reply from an “historian” inclined to dodge is printed as of importance.  One would like to know his identity, and what his “judicial situation” was.  “An eminent Conservative historian writes as follows:  ’I hesitate to become a member of your Association from a doubt whether I should take that open step to which my inclinations strongly prompt me, or adhere to the neutrality in public life to which, as holding a high and responsible judicial situation in this country, I have hitherto invariably confined myself.  And after mature consideration I am of opinion that it will be more decorous to abide in this instance by my former rule.  I am the more inclined to follow this course from the reflection that by not appearing in public as an advocate of the Southern States, I shall be able to serve their cause more effectually in my literary character.  And the printing of a new edition of my ‘History’ (which is now going on) will afford me several opportunities of doing so, of which I shall not fail gladly to avail myself.’”]

[Footnote 1147:  Printed, London, 1864.]

[Footnote 1148:  At the time a recently-printed work by a clergyman had much vogue:  “The South As It Is, or Twenty-one Years’ Experience in the Southern States of America.”  By Rev. T.D.  Ozanne.  London, 1863.  Ozanne wrote:  “Southern society has most of the virtues of an aristocracy, increased in zest by the democratic form of government, and the freedom of discussion on all topics fostered by it.  It is