so much a constant that to
have attempted discussion of it while other topics were being treated,
would have resulted in repetition and confusion. It is therefore made
the subject of a separate and concluding chapter.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1261: Bright to Sumner, Jan. 26, 1865 (Mass. Hist. Soc.
_Proceedings_, XLVI, p. 132).]

[Footnote 1262: To Sumner, Feb. 17, 1865 (_Ibid._, p. 133).]

[Footnote 1263: Dodd, _Jefferson Davis_, p. 343]

[Footnote 1264: Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, March 4, 1865.]

[Footnote 1265: _Ibid._, Slidell to Mason, March 5 and 6, 1865.]

[Footnote 1266: _Ibid._, Mason to Slidell, March 15, 1865.]

[Footnote 1267: Mason to Benjamin, March 31, 1865. (Richardson, II, pp.
709-17.)]

[Footnote 1268: _Ibid._, p. 717.]

[Footnote 1269: Russian Archives. Stoeckl to F.O., Jan. 24, 1865. No.
187. It is interesting that just at this time Gortchakoff should have
sent to Stoeckl the copy of a memorandum by one, C. Catacazy, employe of
the Foreign Office and long-time resident in the United States, in which
was outlined a plan of a Russian offer of mediation. The memorandum
specified that such an offer should be based on the idea that the time
had come for a complete restoration of the Union and argued that both
North and South regarded Russia as a special friend; it was Russia's
interest to see the Union restored as a balance to Great Britain.
Gortchakoff's comment was favourable, but he left it wholly to Stoeckl's
judgment and discretion to act upon the plan. (Russian Archives. F.O. to
Stoeckl, Feb. 6, 1865.)]

[Footnote 1270: Feb. 4, 1865.]

[Footnote 1271: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, 254. To his son, Feb.
10, 1865.]

[Footnote 1272: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, pp. 410-14.]

[Footnote 1273: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, 256. To his son, Feb.
17, 1865.]

[Footnote 1274: _U.S. Messages and Documents_, 1865-66, Pt. I, p. 182.
Adams to Seward, Feb. 23, 1865.]

[Footnote 1275: _Ibid._, p. 112. Adams to Seward, Feb. 2, 1865.]

[Footnote 1276: _Ibid._, p. 180. Seward to Adams, Feb. 21, 1865.]

[Footnote 1277: _Ibid._, p. 199. Adams to Seward, March 9, 1865.]

[Footnote 1278: _Ibid._, p. 197. Seward to Adams, March 8, 1865.]

[Footnote 1279: March 8, 1865. (Bigelow, _Retrospections_, II, p. 361.)]

[Footnote 1280: Russell Papers. Burnley to Russell, Feb. 23 and March
13, 1865.]

[Footnote 1281: "The speech of Mr. Bright is universally admitted to
have been one of the most brill