es, at no greater cost than a violation of his faith and duty
toward us." (Richardson, II, p. 577.)]

[Footnote 1235: e.g., Meeting of Glasgow Union and Emancipation Society,
Oct. 11, 1864. (_The Liberator_, Nov. 4, 1864.)]

[Footnote 1236: Russell Papers, Oct. 24, 1864.]

[Footnote 1237: _Ibid._, Lyons to Russell, Oct. 28, 1864.]

[Footnote 1238: Lyons Papers. Russell to Lyons, Nov. 19, 1864. Lyons
reached London December 27, and never returned to his post in America.
Lyons' services to the friendly relations of the United States and Great
Britain were of the greatest. He upheld British dignity yet never gave
offence to that of America; he guarded British interests but with a wise
and generous recognition of the difficulties of the Northern Government.
No doubt he was at heart so unneutral as to hope for Northern success,
even though at first sharing in the view that there was small
possibility of reunion, but this very hope--unquestionably known to
Seward and to Lincoln--frequently eased dangerous moments in the
relations with Great Britain, and was in the end a decided asset to the
Government at home.]

[Footnote 1239: Nov. 26, 1864.]

[Footnote 1240: Nov. 22, 1864.]

[Footnote 1241: The gradual change in _Punch's_ representation of a
silly-faced Lincoln to one which bore the stamp of despotic ferocity is
an interesting index of British opinion during the war. By 1864 those
who watched his career had come to respect Lincoln's ability and power
though as yet wholly unappreciative of his still greater qualities.]

[Footnote 1242: _The Liberator_, Sept. 23, 1864. Letter from T.H. Barker
to Garrison, August 27, 1864.]

[Footnote 1243: _Ibid._, Nov. 4, 1864.]

[Footnote 1244: _The Index_, Sept. 29, 1864, p. 618, describing the
meeting at Ashton.]

[Footnote 1245: _The Liberator_, Nov. 4, 1864.]

[Footnote 1246: _The Index_, Nov. 3, 1864, p. 699.]

[Footnote 1247: _The Liberator_, Nov. 4, 1864.]

[Footnote 1248: _The Index_, Nov. 10, 1864, p. 713.]

[Footnote 1249: F.O., Am., Vol. 975. Slidell, Mason and Mann to Russell,
Nov. 11, 1864, Paris. Replies were received from England, France, Sweden
and the Papal States. (Mason Papers, Mason to Slidell, Jan. 4, 1865).]

[Footnote 1250: F.O., Am., Vol. 975. Draft. Russell to the
"Commissioners of the so-called Confederate States," Nov. 25, 1864.]

[Footnote 1251: Dec. 1, 1864.]

[Footnote 1252: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, p. 207. Henry Adams to
his broth