FOOTNOTES
[1] This Introduction is copied from the pamphlet edition published in New York by the Young Men’s Republican Union.
[2] Speech on the King’s Message relative to the Affairs of Portugal, December 12, 1826: Speeches, Vol. VI. p. 79.
[3] Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1861, p. 84: Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 1.
[4] Debate on the Queen’s Proclamation, May 16, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 2084.
[5] The cynical frankness of Earl Russell reveals the prominence of this consideration. In autobiographical comments, at a later day, he says: “During the discussion of the questions relating to the Alabama and the Shenandoah, it was the great object of the British Government to preserve for the subject the security of Trial by Jury, and for the nation the legitimate and lucrative trade of ship-building.”—Selections from Speeches of Earl Russell, 1817 to 1841, and from Despatches, 1859 to 1865, with Introductions by Earl Russell, Vol. II. p. 266.
[6] “Apud Agathiam legimus, hostem esse qui faciat quod hosti placet.”—Grotius, De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Lib. III. cap. xvii. § 3, 2.
[7] Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams: Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 8, pp. 2, 3.
[8] Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward, October 14, 1861: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1861, p. 169: Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 1.
[9] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. C. col. 714.