Great Britain and the American Civil War

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

[750] Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Aug. 24, 1862.

[751] The ignorance of other Cabinet members is shown by a letter from Argyll to Gladstone, September 2, 1862, stating as if an accepted conclusion, that there should be no interference and that the war should be allowed to reach its "natural issue" (Gladstone Papers).

[752] Russell Papers. Cowley to Russell. Sept. 18, 1862, fixes the date of Russell's letter.

[753] Palmerston MS.

[754] Walpole, Russell, II, p. 360.

[755] Ibid., p. 361. Sept. 17, 1862.

[756] Russell Papers. Cowley to Russell, Sept. 18, 1862. This is the first reference by Cowley in over three months to mediation--evidence that Russell's instructions took him by surprise.

[757] Gladstone Papers.

[758] Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Sept. 22, 1862.

[759] Russell Papers.