picturesque, patriarchal, genial.  It makes a landed gentry, it founds families, it favours leisure and field sports; it develops a special class of thoughtful, responsible, guiding, and protecting minds; it tends to elevation of sentiment and refinement of manners” (p. 61).  Especially he insisted the South was intensely religious and he finally dismissed slavery with the phrase:  “The Gospel of the Son of God has higher objects to attain than the mere removal of one social evil” (p. 175).]

[Footnote 1149:  Mason Papers.]

[Footnote 1150:  The Alexandra, as a result of the Court’s decision, was again appealed, but on an adverse decision was released, proceeded to Nassau, where she was again libelled in the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Bahamas, and again released.  She remained at Nassau until the close of the war, thus rendering no service to the South. (Bernard, pp. 354-5.)]

[Footnote 1151:  Feb. 4, 1864, p. 73.]

[Footnote 1152:  See Ch.  XIII.]

[Footnote 1153:  State Department, Eng.  Adams to Seward, April 7, 1864.]

[Footnote 1154:  F.O., Am., Vol. 944, No. 81.  Lyons to Russell, Feb. 1, 1864.]

[Footnote 1155:  Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell, Feb. 9, 1864.]

[Footnote 1156:  F.O., Am., Vol. 944, No. 98.  Lyons to Russell, Feb. 12, 1864.]

[Footnote 1157:  Ibid., Vol. 946, No. 201.  Lyons to Russell, March 22, 1864.]

[Footnote 1158:  Ibid., Vol. 945, No. 121.  Lyons to Russell, Feb. 23, 1864.]

[Footnote 1159:  Lyons Papers, April 23, 1864.]

[Footnote 1160:  April, 1864.]

[Footnote 1161:  Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell, April 19, 1864, and F.O., Am., Vol. 948, No. 284.  Lyons to Russell, April 25, 1864.  A Captain Goodenough was sent to America and fully confirmed Lyons’ reports.]

[Footnote 1162:  Russell Papers.  Lyons to Russell, May 9, 1864.  The tone of the New York Herald might well have given cause for anxiety.  “In six months at the furthest, this unhappy rebellion will be brought to a close.  We shall then have an account to settle with the Governments that have either outraged us by a recognition of what they call ’the belligerent rights’ of the rebels, or by the active sympathy and aid which they have afforded them.  Let France and England beware how they swell up this catalogue of wrongs.  By the time specified we shall have unemployed a veteran army of close upon a million of the finest troops in the world, with whom we shall be in a position not only to drive the French out of Mexico and to annex Canada, but, by the aid of our powerful navy, even to return the compliment of intervention in European affairs.” (Quoted by The Index, July 23, 1863, p. 203.)]