attitude of, to emancipation,
  ii. 83, 84, 87; not affected in Proclamation
  of Emancipation, 86
Bourke, Hon. Robert, ii. 187, 193
Boynton, Rev. C.B., English and
  French Neutrality, etc., cited
  and quoted, ii. 225 note[1]
Bright, John, i. 58 note[2], 77;
  quoted on Times attitude towards
  the United States, 55
  note[3]; view of the Northern
  attempt at reconquest, 72; views
  of, on the Proclamation of Neutrality,
  108, 110; speech on
  Trent affair, 221-2; letter to
  Sumner on Trent affair, influence
  on Lincoln, 232; speech on
  Britain’s attitude on conclusion
  of Trent affair, 241-2; view on the
  war as for abolition, 241; on
  distress in Lancashire, ii. 13, 14;
  view of the blockade, 14, 15;
  on the cotton shortage, 15;
  and Gladstone’s Newcastle
  speech, 48; view of Emancipation
  Proclamation, 48 note[2],
  105-6, 111-12; on England’s
  support if emancipation an object
  in the war, 88-9; the escape
  of the Alabama, 120; at Trades
  Unions of London meeting, 132-3,
  134, 291-3; support of the
  North, 132, 283-4, 290, 291-295;
  on the interests of the unenfranchised
  in the American conflict,
  132, 295; on the unfriendly
  neutrality of the Government,
  134; rebuked by Palmerston,
  135; trouncing of Roebuck, 172
  and note[2]; on Britain’s neutrality
  (Nov., 1863), 184; championship
  of democratic institutions, i.
  221-2; ii. 132-3, 276-7, 282, 283;
  popularity of, as advocate of
  Northern cause, 224, 225; influence
  of, for the North, i. 58
  note[2]; ii. 224; Lincoln’s pardon
  of Alfred Rubery in honour of,
  225 and note[1]; quoted on feeling
  of the British Government and
  people towards United States in
  Jan., 1865, etc., 247; confidence
  of, in pacific policy of Lincoln,
  255 and note[1]; quoted on the
  ruling class and democracy, 280;
  attack on Southern aristocracy
  by, 290; heads deputation to
  Adams, 294; eulogy of George
  Thompson by, 224 note[1]
  Adams’ opinion on, ii. 298;
    view of, in The Index, ii. 298-9;
    Laird’s view of, ii. 134;
    Karl Marx’s view of, 292
    note[1]; Lord Salisbury, quoted
    on the oratory of, 290 note[1],
    the Times attack on, 295-6
  Otherwise mentioned, i. 69, 179,
    289; ii. 68, 69, 132 note[1], 172
    note[1], 186, 187, 191, 278, 281. 
   (See also under Morning Star)
British, See also under Great
  Britain
British emigration to America, i.
  23 et seq, 35; effect of American
  political ideals on, 23, 24, 25, 26
British Foreign Enlistment Act,
  ii. 116-7, 118; application of, in