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o made the entire typescript for the Press, and whose criticisms were invaluable. It is no purpose of a Preface to indicate results, but it is my hope that with, I trust, a "calm comparison of the evidence," now for the first time available to the historian, a fairly true estimate may be made of what the American Civil War meant to Great Britain; how she regarded it and how she reacted to it. In brief, my work is primarily a study in British history in the belief that the American drama had a world significance, and peculiarly a British one. EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS. _November 25, 1924_ CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE CHAPTER PAGE I. BACKGROUNDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF IMPENDING CONFLICT, 1860-61 . . . 35 III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POLICY, MAY, 1861 . . . . . . 76 IV. BRITISH SUSPICION OF SEWARD . . . . . . . . . . 113 V. THE DECLARATION OF PARIS NEGOTIATION . . . . . . . 137 VI. BULL RUN; CONSUL BUNCH; COTTON, AND MERCIER . . . . 172 VII. THE "TRENT" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 VIII. THE BLOCKADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 IX. ENTER MR. LINDSAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PART ONE LORD JOHN RUSSELL . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ _From Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the Making of Italy_" LORD LYONS (1860) . . . . . . . . . _facing p_. 42 _From Lord Newton's "Life of Lord Lyons" (Edward Arnold & Co_.) SIR WILLIAM GREGORY, K.C.M.G. . . . . . " 90 _From Lady Gregory's "Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G.: An Autobiography"_ (_John Murray_) WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD . . . . . . . . " 114 _From Lord Newton's "Life of Lord Lyons"_ (_Edward Arnold & Co._) C.F. ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . " 138 _From a photograph in the United States Embassy, London_ JAMES M. MASON . . . . . . . . . . " 206 _From a photograph by L.C. Handy, Washington_ "KING COTTON BOUND" . . . . . . . . " 262 _Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of "Punch"_ GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CHAPTER I BACKGROUNDS In 1862, less than a year after he had assumed his post in London, the American Minister, Charles Francis Adams, at a time of depression and bitterness wrote to Secre
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