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[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 emanc.i.p.ation, the next sets the date January 1, 1863, for completed emanc.i.p.ation 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 ma.s.s 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 const.i.tution gave him no authority to negotiate such a treaty; indeed, denied him that authority since the const.i.tution 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 Ma.s.s. 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 Doc.u.ments_, 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 Smith, Justin McCarthy, Thomas Hughes, Cairns, Herbert Spencer, Francis Newman, the Rev. Newman Hall, and others. Frederick W. Chesson was secretary, and very active in the work.]
[Footnote 888: Schurz, _Speeches and Correspondence_, I, 190.]
[Footnote 889: Schurz, _Reminiscences_, II, 309.]
[Footnote 890: Gasparin, _The Uprising of a Great People_, 1861.]
[Footnote 891: Gasparin, _America before Europe_, Pt. V, Ch. III. The preface is dated March 4, 1862, and the work went through three American editions in 1862.]
[Footnote 892: Pierce, _Sumner_, IV, p. 63. No exact date, but Spring of 1862.]
[Footnote 893: Raymond, _State Papers of Lincoln_, p. 253.]
[Footnote 894: _Ibid._, p. 256.]
[Footnote 895: Rhodes, IV, p. 162.]
[Footnote 896: Lincoln's _Complete Works_, II, p. 454. But the _after-comment_ by Lincoln as to purpose was nearly always in line with an unfinished draft of a letter to Charles D. Robinson, Aug. 17, 1864, when the specific object was said to be "inducing the coloured people to come bodily over from the rebel side to ours." _Ibid._, p. 564.]
[Footnote 897: See _ante_, Ch. IX.]
[Footnote 898: _U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments, 1862-3_, Pt. I, p. 83.
Adams to Seward, May 8, 1862.]
[Footnote 899: _Ibid._, pp. 101-105.]
[Footnote 900: _Ibid._, p. 122. Adams to Seward, July 3, 1862. In his despatch Adams states the conversation to have occurred "last Sat.u.r.day,"
and with an "unofficial person," who was sounding him on mediation. This was Cobden.]
[Footnote 901: Welles, _Diary_, I, p. 70.]
[Footnote 902: _U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments, 1862-3_, Pt. I, p. 135.]
[Footnote 903: _Ibid._, p. 133. To Seward. His informant was Baring.]
[Footnote 904: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p. 333.]
[Footnote 905: See _ante_, p. 35.]
[Footnote 906: _Parliamentary Papers, 1863. Lords_, Vol. XXIX.
"Correspondence relating to the Civil War in the United States of North America." No. 8. To Russell.]
[Footnote 907: _Ibid._, No. 10. Russell to Stuart, Aug. 7, 1862.]
[Footnote 908: _Ibid._, 1863, _Lords_, Vol. XXV. "Further correspondence relating to the Civil War in the United States of North America." No. 2.
To Stuart.]
[Footnote 909: _Ibid._, 1863, _Lords_, Vol. XXIX. "Correspondence relating to the Civil War in the United States of North America," No.
20. Stuart to Russell, Aug. 16, 1862.]
[Footnote 910: See _ante_, p. 37.]
[Footnote 911: State Department, Eng., Vol. 78, No. 119. Adams to Seward, Feb. 21, 1862. This supplemented a similar representation made on Jan. 17, 1862. (_U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments, 1862-3_, Pt. I, p. 16.)]
[Footnote 912: e.g., Motley, _Correspondence_, II, pp. 64-5. To O.W.
Holmes, Feb. 26, 1862.]
[Footnote 913: _U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments, 1862-3_, Pt. I, p. 140.
Adams to Seward, July 17, 1862.]
