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.)]

[Footnote 1163: Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, p. 563, states that great
efforts were made by the Government to stimulate immigration both to
secure a labour supply and to fill up the armies. Throughout and even
since the war the charge has been made by the South that the foreign
element, after 1862, preponderated in Northern armies. There is no way
of determining the exact facts in regard to this for no statistics were
kept. A Memorandum prepared by the U.S. War Department, dated July 15,
1898, states that of the men examined for physical fitness by the
several boards of enrolment, subsequent to September 1, 1864 (at which
time, if ever, the foreign element should have shown prepond