_Ibid._, Slidell to Mason, June 17, 1862.]

[Footnote 650: _Ibid._, Mason to Slidell, June 19, 1862.]

[Footnote 651: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 652: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXVII, p. 810.]

[Footnote 653: Mason Papers. Slidell to Mason, June 21, 1862.]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO

CHAPTER PAGE
X. KING COTTON . . . . . . . . . . 1
XI. RUSSELL'S MEDIATION PLAN . . . . . . 33
XII. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION . . . . 75
XIII. THE LAIRD RAMS . . . . . . . . . 116
XIV. ROEBUCK'S MOTION . . . . . . . . 152
XV. THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION . 186
XVI. BRITISH CONFIDENCE IN THE SOUTH . . . 219
XVII. THE END OF THE WAR . . . . . . . . 247
XVIII. THE KEY-NOTE OF BRITISH ATTITUDE . . . 274
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PART TWO

PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
_From a photograph by Elliott & Fry, Ltd_.

JOHN SLIDELL . . . . . . . . . . . _facing p. 24_
_From Nicolay and Hay's "Life of Abraham
Lincoln," by permission of the Century Co., New
York._

"ABE LINCOLN'S LAST CARD" . . . . . . . " 102
_Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of
"Punch_"

WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER (1851) . . . . . . " 134
_From Reid's "Life of Forster" (Chapman & Hall,
Ltd._)

"THE AMERICAN GLADIATORS--HABET!" . . . . " 248
_Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of
"Punch_"

"BRITANNIA SYMPATHIZES WITH COLUMBIA" . . . " 262
_Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of
"Punch_"

JOHN BRIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . " 294
_From Trevelyan's "Life of John Bright"
(Constable & Co., Ltd_.)

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER X

KING COTTON

For two weeks there was no lightening of Southern depression in England.
But on June 28 McClellan had been turned back from his advance on
Richmond by Lee, the new commander of the Army of Virginia, and the much
heralded Peninsular campaign was recognized to have been a disastrous
failure. Earlier Northern victories were forgotten and the campaigns in
the West, still progressing favourably for the North, were ignored or
their significance not understood. Again, to English eyes, the war in
America approached a stalemate. The time had come with the near
adjournment of Parliament when, if e