State, i. 52, 244
Blackwood, John, political views
of, ii. 289
_Blackwood's Magazine_, ii. 279 _note_[1];
on cotton and the blockade, 10;
on French mediation proposals,
68; on the Emancipation Proclamation,
103; on democracy
as cause of the war, 278-9, 281,
289
Blair, member of the United States
Cabinet, i, 130 _note_[1], 231; ii. 85,
251, 252
Blockade of Southern Ports, the:
Lincoln's declaration on, i. 83,
89, 90, 92, 111, 121, 122, 244,
245; commencement of, i. 245;
method of warning at the port,
245, 246; as involving hardship
to British merchants, 245-6;
effectiveness of, 252-71 _passim_;
effect on British Trade, 252, 254,
263; effect on Cotton Trade,
262; ii. 8, 9; statistics as to
effectiveness, i. 268 _note_[3]
Southern Ports Bill, i. 246 _et seq._
Stone Boat Fleet Blockade,
i. 253 _et seq._, 269, 302
British attitude to, i. 95, 244, 245,
246, 263 _and note_[2], 267, 270;
ii. 5, 265; Parliamentary debate
on, i. 267 _et seq._; Gregory's motion
268 _et seq._; press attitude,
246; Bright's view, ii. 14, 15
Confederate representations on,
i. 265
Napoleon's view of, i. 290
Booth, assassinator of Lincoln,
ii. 258, 259, 263
Border States, The: efforts at
compromise, i. 49; sympathies
in, 173; the "Border State
policy" of Lincoln, 173, 176,
272 _note_[1]; ii. 82; and Confiscation
Bill, Lincoln's fears, 82;
attitude of, to emancipation,
ii. 83, 84, 87; not affected in Proclamation
of Emancipation, 86
Bourke, Hon. Robert, ii. 187, 193
Boynton, Rev. C.B., _English and
French Neutrality, etc._, cited
and quoted, ii. 225 _note_[1]
Bright, John, i. 58 _note_[2], 77;
quoted on _Times_ attitude towards
the United States, 55
_note_[3]; view of the Northern
attempt at reconquest, 72; views
of, on the Proclamation of Neutrality,
108, 110; speech on
_Trent_ affair, 221-2; letter to
Sumner on _Trent_ affair, influence
on Lincoln, 232; speech on
Britain's attitude on conclusion
of _Trent_ affair, 241-2; view on the
war as for abolition, 241; on
distress in Lancashire, ii. 13, 14;
view of the blockade, 14, 15;
on the cotton shortage, 15;
and Gladstone's Newcastle
speech, 48; view of Emancipation
Proclamation, 48 _note_[2],
105-6, 111-12; on England's
support if emancipation an object
in the war, 88-9; the escape
of the _Alabama_, 120; at Trades
Unions of