, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in
which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he
desired to utter."]

[Footnote 1363: Speech at Rochdale, Feb. 3, 1863. (Robertson, _Speeches
of John Bright_, I, pp. 234 _seq._)]

[Footnote 1364: Bigelow to Seward, Feb. 6, 1863. (Bigelow,
_Retrospections_, I, p. 600.)]

[Footnote 1365: _U.S. Messages and Documents_, 1863, Pt. I, p. 123.]

[Footnote 1366: State Dept., Eng., Adams to Seward. No. 334. Feb. 26,
1863. enclosing report of the Edinburgh meeting as printed in _The
Weekly Herald, Mercury and News_, Feb. 21, 1863.]

[Footnote 1367: _U.S. Messages and Documents_, 1863, Pt. I, p. 157.]

[Footnote 1368: Spargo, _Karl Marx, _pp. 224-5. Spargo claims that Marx
bent every effort to stir working men to a sense of class interest in
the cause of the North and even went so far as to secure the presence of
Bright at the meeting, as the most stirring orator of the day, though
personally he regarded Bright "with an almost unspeakable loathing." On
reading this statement I wrote to Mr. Spargo asking for evidence and
received the reply that he believed the tradition unquestionably well
founded, though "almost the only testimony available consists of a
reference or two in one of his [Marx's] letters and the ample
corroborative testimony of such friends as Lessner, Jung and others."
This is scant historical proof; but some years later in a personal talk
with Henry Adams, who was in 1863 his father's private secretary, and
who attended and reported the meeting, the information was given that
Henry Adams himself had then understood and always since believed Marx's
to have been the guiding hand in organizing the meeting.]

[Footnote 1369: _U.S. Messages and Documents_, 1863, Pt. I, p. 162.
(Adams to Seward, March 27, 1863.)]

[Footnote 1370: State Dept., Eng., Vol. 82, No. 358. Adams to Seward,
March 27, 1863, enclosing report by Henry Adams. There was also enclosed
the printed report, giving speeches at length, as printed by _The Bee
Hive_, the organ of the London Trades Unions.]

[Footnote 1371: See _ante_, p. 132.]

[Footnote 1372: State Dept., Eng., Vol. 82, No. 360. Adams to Seward,
April 2, 1863.]

[Footnote 1373: May 5, 1863.]

[Footnote 1374: _U.S. Diplomatic Correspondence_, 1863, Pt. I, p. 243.
Adams to Seward, May 7, 1863.]

[Footnote 1375: Robertson, _Speeches of John Bright_, I, p. 264. In a
letter to Bigelow, March 16, 1863