66, 168 _note_[4], 185, 188;
view on the American proposal, 154, 162, 164
Emancipation, as an issue, i. 223
Emancipation proclamation, ii. 106, 113, 114 _and note_
Intervention, i. 197; ii. 26, 36;
fears commercial influence on policy, 26;
_See also_ Mediation _infra_
Irish emigrants: enlistment of, ii. 201
Mediation, i. 284, 286, 297, 298-9; ii. 23, 37 _note_[1], 70;
summary of Mercier's plan of, i. 298-9;
report on French isolated offer of, ii. 75-6;
on Russian suggestion of, 76
Mercier's Richmond visit, i. 281 _et seq. passim_;
ii. 24 _note_[2];
comment on the result of, i. 286;
effect of, on, 287;
comment on newspaper report of, 287
Privateering Bill, ii. 125, 126, 127
Proclamation of Neutrality, presentation of, to Seward,
i. 102, 103, 132, 133, 163 _note_[3], 164, 184
Recognition of the South, i. 65, 66, 73, 197, 198; ii. 70
Seward's foreign war policy, i. 60, 128-9, 130, 132, 133, 136;
advice to Russell on, 128-9, 131;
anxiety as to Canada, 128, 129, 131
Slave Trade Treaty, i. 276
Slavery, i. 52, 73, 93 _and note_[3];
account of changes in Northern feeling on, 223
Southern Commissioners, i. 65, 72
Southern shipbuilding, ii. 127, 139-141;
on American War feeling over, 139-40
_Trent_ affair, i. 210, 211, 221;
instructions in, 212-4;
anxiety for Canada in, 221

Otherwise mentioned, i. 43, 57, 59, 74, 242, 243; ii. 147 _note_[4], 170
Lytton, Bulwer, on dissolution of the Union, cited, i. 182

McClellan, General:
advance of, on Richmond, i. 276, 279, 297, 298, 301; ii. i, 33;
defeat of, by Lee, 1, 18, 33;
rumoured capture of, 20, 21 _note_;
Adams' opinion on rumours, 20, 21 _note_;
British newspaper reports of capture of, 20, 21 _note_;
removal of, 30;
defeats Lee at Antietam, 43, 85;
fails to follow up his victory, 43, 105;
as candidate in Presidential election, 234 _note_[2], 238
McFarland, i. 204, 234 _note_[2]
McHenry, George, _The Cotton Trade_, cited,
ii. 6 _note_[2], 13 _note_[2], 185 _note_[2]
Mackay, Alexander, _The Western World,_ cited and quoted, i. 30; ii. 274-5
Mackay, Charles, i. 37 _and note_, 46 _note_[4];
as _Times_ correspondent in New York, ii. 176 _notes_; 189, 226
_Forty Years' Recollections_, cited, ii. 176 _note_[2]
"John and Jonathan" poem, quoted, i. 37 _note_
_Life and Liberty in Amer