[Footnote 867: _Ibid._, p. 233, May 19, 1862.]

[Footnote 868: A Bill was in fact introduced July 16, 1862, on the lines
of Lincoln's "pecuniary aid" proposal of July 12, but no action was
taken on it.]

[Footnote 869: Welles, _Diary_, I, pp. 70-71.]

[Footnote 870: Abraham Lincoln, _Complete Works_, II, p. 213.]

[Footnote 871: Rhodes, IV, pp. 71-2.]

[Footnote 872: As issued September 22, the first paragraph refers to his
plan of securing legislation to aid compensated voluntary emancipation,
the next sets the date January 1, 1863, for completed emancipation of
slaves in states still in rebellion and the remaining paragraphs concern
the carrying out of the confiscation law. Lincoln, _Complete Works_, II,
pp. 237-8.]

[Footnote 873: Raymond, _State Papers of Lincoln_, 260-61.]

[Footnote 874: Rhodes, IV, p. 214.]

[Footnote 875: _Ibid._, p. 410. In letter, August 26, 1863, addressed to
a Springfield mass meeting of "unconditional Union men."]

[Footnote 876: American Hist. Rev., XVIII, pp. 784-7. Bunch to Russell,
Dec. 5, 1860.]

[Footnote 877: Southern Commissioners abroad early reported that
recognition of independence and commercial treaties could not be secured
unless the South would agree to "mutual right of search" treaties for
the suppression of the African Slave Trade. Davis' answer was that the
Confederate constitution gave him no authority to negotiate such a
treaty; indeed, denied him that authority since the constitution itself
prohibited the importation of negroes from Africa. For Benjamin's
instructions see Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, pp. 591-96.]

[Footnote 878: _Spectator_, May 4, 1861.]

[Footnote 879: Sept. 6, 1861. In Mass. Hist. Soc. _Proceedings_, Vol.
XLVI, p. 95.]

[Footnote 880: Sept. 14, 1861.]

[Footnote 881: October 5, 1861.]

[Footnote 882: Lyons Papers. To Lyons, Oct. 26, 1861.]

[Footnote 883: _Ibid._, To Lyons, Nov. 2, 1861. The same ideas are
officially expressed by Russell to Lyons, March 7, 1861, and May 1,
1862. (F.O., Am., Vol. 818, No. 104, Draft; and _Ibid._, Vol. 819, No.
197, Draft.).]

[Footnote 884: See ante, p. 81.]

[Footnote 885: _U.S. Messages and Documents_, 1862-3, Pt. I, p. 65.]

[Footnote 886: Ashley, _Palmerston_, II, p. 227. Palmerston to Russell,
Aug. 13, 1862.]

[Footnote 887: Garrison, _Garrison_, IV, p. 66. Many distinguished names
were on the roster of the Society--Mill, Bright, Cobden, Lord Houghton,
Samuel Lucas, Forster, Goldwin Sm