Great Britain and the American Civil War

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

[863] Hansard, 3rd Ser., CXLV, p. 387, Feb. 17, 1862.

[864] Pierce, Sumner, IV, pp. 41-48, and 63-69.

[865] Raymond, Life, Public Services and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln, p. 243.

[866] Ibid., pp. 229-32.

[867] Ibid., p. 233, May 19, 1862.

[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.

[869] Welles, Diary, I, pp. 70-71.

[870] Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works, II, p. 213.

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

[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.