ee of Southern Independence Association, 187, 193
Charleston, S.C.:
Sentiment to Great Britain in, i. 43, 44 _note_;
seizure of customs house at, 52;
British appeal on question of port dues at, 52, 244;
"Stone Boat" blockade of harbour at, 253;
evacuation of, ii. 248, 249
Charleston _Mercury_, "King Cotton" theory of, ii. 5
Chase, Secretary of Treasury, i. 115, 121; ii. 72, 283;
quarrel with Seward, 72
Chase, W. H. (of Florida), quoted, ii. 4
Chattanooga, ii. 185
Cheever, Rev. Dr., ii. 224
Chenery, ii. 301
Chesney, Captain, cited, ii. 165
Chesson, F. W., ii. 224
Chicago Convention, the, i. 175
Chicago abolitionists, Lincoln and, ii. 49 _note_[3]
Chicamauga, Rosencrans defeated at, ii. 184
Chittenden, cited, ii. 130 _note_[2]
Christian IX, of Denmark, ii. 203
Clanricarde, Lord, ii. 168
Clarendon, Earl of, i. 199 _note_[3], 215;
ii. 3, 51-8 _passim_, 63, 203 _note_[2];
on Russell's mediation project and Lewis' Hereford speech, quoted, 57-8
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty: Seward's attack on British interpretation of, i. 113
Cobden, i. 77; quoted, on the _Times_, 222 _note_;
opinion of Seward, 222 _note_;
and Sumner, 222 _note_;
on Palmerston's action in _Trent_ affair, 226 _note_[3];
letter to Sumner read at American Cabinet meeting, 232
Otherwise mentioned, i. 289; ii. 26, 67, 80, 95 _and note_[4], 166, 276
Collie, ii. 189
Collier, legal advice of, on _Alabama_, ii. 118-9
Columbia District, freeing of slaves in, ii. 83
Columbia, S.C., burning of, ii. 248, 249
Combe, George, _Notes on the United States, etc._, cited, i. 29
Confederate Commissioners to Europe, the:
Bunch's characterization of, i. 63;
unofficial interview with Russell, 85-6, 106, 158;
protest against closing of British ports, 170 _note_[2];
replaced by "Special Commissioners," 203;
attempt to make use of the _Trent_ affair, 214;
British attitude to, not modified by _Trent_ affair, 235;
policy of, with regard to recognition and the blockade,
i. 264-5, 267, 273, 300;
acquire a "confidential" document, 265 _and note_[2];
hopes of, from Parliament, 265, 266, 272;
instructions of the first Commissioners, ii. 4 _and note_[3];
failure of the first Commission, 4-5;
suggest a treaty on African Slave Trade, 88 _note_[2];
slavery abolition offer, 249
Confederate Agents' correspondence, collections of, i. 261 _note_[1]
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