246 note[2],
    263 notes; ii. 136 note[2]; on
    the American representations
    on the British Proclamation
    of Neutrality, i. 100; on
    Declaration of Paris negotiations,
    137-8; on the Blockade,
    263 and notes
   “Two Lectures on the Present
    American War”:  on recognition,
    cited, i. 183
Bigelow, John, ii. 71 note[3]: 
  France and the Confederate Navy,
    cited, ii. 57 note[2]
  Retrospections of an Active Life,
    cited, i. 56 note, 217 note[2];
    ii. 71 note[3], 88 note[2], 128 note[3],
    130 note[2]; Gladstone and the
    Cotton Loan, 163 note[2]; U.S.
    stimulation of immigration,
    200 note[1]; cited, 229 note[1];
  Quoted, ii. 254; advice of, on the
    political position in Britain;
    quoted, 290; cited, 295 note[3]
Billault, M., i. 288, 289 and note[1]
Birkbeck, Morris, Letters from Illinois,
  quoted, i. 25
Birmingham Post, The, i. 70 note[1];
  ii. 231 note; letters of S.A. 
  Goddard in support of emancipation
  in, ii. 108-9
Bishop, Rev. Francis, ii. 224
Bismarck, ii. 203
Black, Judge, American Secretary
  of State, i. 52, 244
Blackwood, John, political views
  of, ii. 289
Blackwood’s Magazine, ii. 279 note[1];
  on cotton and the blockade, 10;
  on French mediation proposals,
  68; on the Emancipation Proclamation,
  103; on democracy
  as cause of the war, 278-9, 281,
  289
Blair, member of the United States
  Cabinet, i, 130 note[1], 231; ii. 85,
  251, 252
Blockade of Southern Ports, the: 
  Lincoln’s declaration on, i. 83,
  89, 90, 92, 111, 121, 122, 244,
  245; commencement of, i. 245;
  method of warning at the port,
  245, 246; as involving hardship
  to British merchants, 245-6;
  effectiveness of, 252-71 passim;
  effect on British Trade, 252, 254,
  263; effect on Cotton Trade,
  262; ii. 8, 9; statistics as to
  effectiveness, i. 268 note[3]
  Southern Ports Bill, i. 246 et seq.
  Stone Boat Fleet Blockade,
    i. 253 et seq., 269, 302
  British attitude to, i. 95, 244, 245,
    246, 263 and note[2], 267, 270;
    ii. 5, 265; Parliamentary debate
    on, i. 267 et seq.; Gregory’s motion
    268 et seq.; press attitude,
    246; Bright’s view, ii. 14, 15
  Confederate representations on,
    i. 265
  Napoleon’s view of, i. 290
Booth, assassinator of Lincoln,
  ii. 258, 259, 263
Border States, The:  efforts at
  compromise, i. 49; sympathies
  in, 173; the “Border State
  policy” of Lincoln, 173, 176,
  272 note[1]; ii. 82; and Confiscation
  Bill, Lincoln’s fears, 82;