ncerity of these our
sympathies; for with pride we can point to the fact, that, while the
aristocracy of the Old World took openly the part of the southern
slaveholder, and while the middle class was divided in its opinions, the
working-men in all countries of Europe have unanimously and firmly stood
on the side of the Union." (_U.S. Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865_, Pt.
IV, p. 500.)]

[Footnote 1395: _U.S. Messages and Documents, 1865_, Pt. I, p. 417.
Adams to Hunter, July 13, 1865.]

[Footnote 1396: Disraeli was less disturbed by this than were other Tory
leaders. He had long before, in his historical novels, advocated an
aristocratic leadership of democracy, as against the middle class. Derby
called the Bill "a leap in the dark," but assented to it.]

[Footnote 1397: Pierce, _Sumner_, IV, pp. 151-153, summarizes the
factors determining British attitude and places first the fear of the
privileged classes of the example of America, but his treatment really
minimizes this element.]

[Footnote 1398: Goldwin Smith, "The Civil War in America: An Address
read at the last meeting of the Manchester Union and Emancipation
Society." (Jan. 26, 1866.) London, 1866, pp. 71-75.]

[Footnote 1399: Goldwin Smith, _America and England in their present
relations_, London, 1869, p. 30.]

INDEX

Aberdeen, Lord, i. 10, 13, 14, 15; ii. 117 _note_[1]
Acton, Lord, ii. 301
Adams, Brooks, _The Seizure of the Laird Rams_, cited, ii. 120
_note_[2], 125 _note_[1], 147 _note_[1], 150
_note_[1]
Adams, Charles Francis, i. 49, 62-3, 80-1;
attitude in the early days of the American crisis, 49 _and
note_, 55, 63;
appointed American Minister in London, 62, 80-1, 96;
impressions of English opinion on the crisis, 96, 97, 98, 107;
alarm at Seward's Despatch No. 10, i. 127;
attitude of, to the Palmerston-Russell ministry, 170;
controversy on General Butler's order, 302-5;
reports to Seward on British public meetings on Emancipation
Proclamation, ii. 107 _and note_[3], 223;
view of the popular manifestations on Emancipation, 108;
view as to decline of British confidence in the South, 184;
and the London Confederate States Aid Association, 191, 192;
receives deputations of allegiance during rumours before the fall
of Savannah, 245 _and note_[1];
quoted on rumours in Britain of possible reunion and foreign war,
ii. 251-2, 253;
on effect in England of the Hampton Roads Conference, 253;
advice