prospects in the War, 297;
on possibility of intervention, ii. 23;
on advantage of a Northern declaration on slavery, 23;
on the Trades Unions of London meeting, 292 _and note_[1] 293
"Declaration, The, of Paris,"
1861 ... reviewed, 146 _et seq._, 153;
view of Russell's policy in, 146-150, 159;
view of Lyons, 147, 150
_Education of Henry Adams_ quoted, i. 149 _note_[3];
ii. 172 _note_[2];
cited, ii. 50 _note_[1]
Adams, John (Second President of the U.S.), i. 62, 81
Adams, John Quincy, i. 11, 20, 62, 81
African Slave Trade, attitude of the South to, i. 85-6;
ii. 88;
suppression of, international efforts for, i. 8-10;
punishment to slave traders in American law, 9;
American attitude to right of search, 9, 10, 219;
British anti-slavery policy, 31-2;
wane of British interest in, 10, 32;
ii. 90;
Slave Trade Treaty signed, i. 10, 275, 276;
ii. 90, 91
Agassiz, L., i. 37 _note_.
Akroyd, Edward, ii. 193 _note_.
_Alabama_, The, ii. 35, 116, 119-120;
departure of, from Liverpool, 118;
British order to stop
departure, 119, 120 _and note_[2], 133;
Russell's private feelings as to, 121, 124;
public opinion in Great Britain on, 129-130;
Palmerston's defence of Government action on, 134-5;
American anger over, 119, 127;
measures against, 121-3, 127;
New York Chamber of Commerce protest on, 126;
claim for damages on account of, 151 _note_[1];
mentioned, i. 138; ii. 129 _note_[1], 131, 134, 136, 145, 146
_Alexandra_, case, The:
Seizure of the vessel, ii. 136, 139, 140, 152, 161 _note_[4];
public approval, 136;
law actions on, 136 _note_[2], 142, 149, 152, 185, 195;
American anxiety at Court decision, 143;
final result, 196 _note_[2]
America, Central: British-American
disputes in, i. 16, 17
American:
Civil War: i. 86, 87 _and note_[2], 99;
British public and official views at the commencement of, 40-60;
origins of; American and British views, i. 47-8;
efforts at compromise, 49;
British official attitude on outbreak of, 73;
European opinion of, after duration of three years, ii. 219;
compared with the Great War in Europe, 219;
British attitude to democracy as determining attitude to the War,
i. 77; ii. 303-5;
bearing of, on democracy in Great Britain, 299
Union, The: British views of, i. 15;
prognostications of its dissolution, 36, 37
War of Independence, i. 2-3, 17;
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