-we are too large
and strong a nation" (Preface, p. 3). The work has no historical
importance except that it was thought worth publication in 1864.]

[Footnote 1209: Lyons Papers. July 16, 1864. Copy.]

[Footnote 1210: Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell, Aug. 23, 1864.]

[Footnote 1211: June 3, 1864.]

[Footnote 1212: The _Times_, August 4, 1864. Letters dated June 27 and
July 5, 1864.]

[Footnote 1213: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, p. 126. Henry Adams to
his brother, May 13, 1864. "The current is dead against us, and the
atmosphere so uncongenial that the idea of the possibility of our
success is not admitted."]

[Footnote 1214: _Ibid._, p. 136. Henry Adams to his brother, June 3,
1864.]

[Footnote 1215: _The Index_, Feb. 19, 1863, p. 265.]

[Footnote 1216: This was written immediately after the battles of
Vicksburg and Gettysburg, but the tone complained of was much more
marked in 1864.]

[Footnote 1217: The _Times_ average of editorials on the Civil War ran
two in every three days until May, 1864, and thereafter one in every
three days.]

[Footnote 1218: Russell wrote to John Bigelow, March 8, 1865: "You know,
perhaps, that, as I from the first maintained the North must win, I was
tabooed from dealing with American questions in the _Times_ even after
my return to England, but _en revanche_ I have had my say in the _Army
and Navy Gazette_, which I have bought, every week, and if one could be
weak and wicked enough to seek for a morbid gratification amid such
ruins and blood, I might be proud of the persistence with which I
maintained my opinions against adverse and unanimous sentiment"
(Bigelow, _Retrospections_, Vol. II, p. 361). Also on June 5, 1865,
Russell wrote in his diary: "...had the _Times_ followed my advice, how
different our position would be--not only that of the leading journal,
but of England. If ever I did State service, it was in my letters from
America." (Atkins, _Life of W.H. Russell_, Vol. II, p. 115.) See also
Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, pp. 344-45. Russell was editor of the
_Gazette_ on its first appearance as a weekly, January 6, 1860, but left
it to go to America. On his return he settled down to his editorial task
in November, 1862, and thereafter, throughout the war, the _Gazette_ may
be regarded as reflecting his views. His entire letters from America to
the _Times_ constitute a most valuable picture of the months preceding
the outbreak of war, but the contempt poured on the