[Footnote 1362:  Lord Salisbury is quoted in Vince, John Bright, p. 204, as stating that Bright “was the greatest master of English oratory that this generation—­I may say several generations—­has seen.  I have met men who have heard Pitt and Fox, and in whose judgment their eloquence at its best was inferior to the finest efforts of John Bright.  At a time when much speaking has depressed, has almost exterminated, eloquence, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to utter.”]

[Footnote 1363:  Speech at Rochdale, Feb. 3, 1863. (Robertson, Speeches of John Bright, I, pp. 234 seq.)]

[Footnote 1364:  Bigelow to Seward, Feb. 6, 1863. (Bigelow, Retrospections, I, p. 600.)]

[Footnote 1365:  U.S.  Messages and Documents, 1863, Pt.  I, p. 123.]

[Footnote 1366:  State Dept., Eng., Adams to Seward.  No. 334.  Feb. 26, 1863. enclosing report of the Edinburgh meeting as printed in The Weekly Herald, Mercury and News, Feb. 21, 1863.]

[Footnote 1367:  U.S.  Messages and Documents, 1863, Pt.  I, p. 157.]

[Footnote 1368:  Spargo, Karl Marx, pp. 224-5.  Spargo claims that Marx bent every effort to stir working men to a sense of class interest in the cause of the North and even went so far as to secure the presence of Bright at the meeting, as the most stirring orator of the day, though personally he regarded Bright “with an almost unspeakable loathing.”  On reading this statement I wrote to Mr. Spargo asking for evidence and received the reply that he believed the tradition unquestionably well founded, though “almost the only testimony available consists of a reference or two in one of his [Marx’s] letters and the ample corroborative testimony of such friends as Lessner, Jung and others.”  This is scant historical proof; but some years later in a personal talk with Henry Adams, who was in 1863 his father’s private secretary, and who attended and reported the meeting, the information was given that Henry Adams himself had then understood and always since believed Marx’s to have been the guiding hand in organizing the meeting.]

[Footnote 1369:  U.S.  Messages and Documents, 1863, Pt.  I, p. 162.  (Adams to Seward, March 27, 1863.)]

[Footnote 1370:  State Dept., Eng., Vol. 82, No. 358.  Adams to Seward, March 27, 1863, enclosing report by Henry Adams.  There was also enclosed the printed report, giving speeches at length, as printed by The Bee Hive, the organ of the London Trades Unions.]

[Footnote 1371:  See ante, p. 132.]

[Footnote 1372:  State Dept., Eng., Vol. 82, No. 360.  Adams to Seward, April 2, 1863.]

[Footnote 1373:  May 5, 1863.]

[Footnote 1374:  U.S.  Diplomatic Correspondence, 1863, Pt.  I, p. 243.  Adams to Seward, May 7, 1863.]