Great Britain and the American Civil War eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about Great Britain and the American Civil War.

Great Britain and the American Civil War eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about Great Britain and the American Civil War.
  French press views on military situation, cited, ii. 174 note[3]
De Bow’s Review,
  eulogies of the South in, quoted, ii. 2, 3, 4;
  on cotton and slavery, 3;
  view of England’s action on blockade, 4
Declaration of Paris, The, i. 102, 139-40;
  attitude of United States to, 140-1, 156;
  American offer of adherence during the Civil War, 104, 137, 141-2,
    150, 151
Declaration of Paris Negotiation, The, i. 137 et seq., 184, 201;
  British suggestion to France in, i. 88, 91, 142, 146-7, 156, 157
    and note[3];
  American offer of adherence, 104, 137, 141-2, 150, 151;
  convention agreed between Britain, France, and America, 142-3;
  addition of a declaration in support of British neutrality proposed
    by Lord Russell, 143-6, 149, 151, 154, 68, 170, 201;
  American rejection of convention, 145, 168, 201
  American argument at Geneva on effect of British diplomacy in, i. 146
    note[2]
  Confederates: 
    approach of, in the negotiation, i. 161, 164, 165, 166, 168
      note[4], 184-6, 188, 192, 193;
    Confederate Congress resolution of approval in, 186
  Convention, the, proposed by U.S. 
    Cowley’s opinion on, i. 167 and note[3];
    Thouvenel’s opinion on, 167;
    Palmerston’s suggestion on, 167 and note[4]
  Seward’s motives in, See under Seward
Delane, editor of the Times:
  Palmerston’s letters to, on American rights in interception of
    Confederate Commissioners, i. 207-8, 209;
  close relations of, with Palmerston, 229 note[2]; ii. 145;
  anticipations of Southern victory, ii. 204 and note[2];
  on prospective war with America, 254;
  effect of Sherman’s arrival at Savannah on, 245 and note[2], 300-1
  Otherwise mentioned, i. 177, 178, 180; ii. 65, 289
de Lhuys, M. Drouyn, French Premier,
  ii. 59 and note[4], 60, 63 note[5], 168
Democratic element in British Society: 
   lack of press representation, i. 24, 41
Democracy: 
  British views on American institutions, i. 24, 28, 30, 31; ii. 274-5;
  view of the American struggle as a failure of, 276 et seq. passim;
  Press comments on the lesson from failure of American democratic
    institutions, 279, 280, 281, 285, 286, 297;
  bearing of the Civil War on, 299;
  aristocratic and conservative attitude to, 286, 287, 297, 298, 300, 301;
  rise of democratic feeling in Great Britain, 291;
  effect of the Reform Bill of 1867, 304
Derby, Lord (Leader of the Opposition), i. 76, 77, 79, 94
  and note[2], 240, 241;
  attitude to recognition and mediation, i. 240; ii. 51, 52, 53, 54, 77;
  attacks governmental policy in relation to Laird Rams and Southern
    shipbuilding, 149-50, 197;
  approves attitude to Napoleon’s mediation proposals, 154-5;
  speech in motion for address to the Crown
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