[1108] Mason Papers. To Mason, July 25, 1863.
[1109] U.S. Diplomatic Correspondence, 1863, Pt. I, p. 329. Adams to Seward, July 30, 1863.
[1110] Mason, Mason, p. 449.
[1111] Sept. 4, 1863. The Times was now printing American correspondence sharply in contrast to that which preceded Gettysburg when the exhaustion and financial difficulties of the North were dilated upon. Now, letters from Chicago, dated August 30, declared that, to the writer's astonishment, the West gave every evidence that the war had fostered rather than checked, prosperity. (Sept. 15, 1863.).
[1112] Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, Sept. 14 and 15, 1863. Slidell to Mason, Sept. 16, 1863.
[1113] McRea wrote to Hotze, September 17, 1863, that in his opinion Slidell and Hotze were the only Southern agents of value diplomatically in Europe (Hotze Correspondence). He thought all others would soon be recalled. Slidell, himself, even in his letter to Mason, had the questionable taste of drawing a rosy picture of his own and his family's intimate social intercourse with the Emperor and the Empress.
[1114] Sept. 23, 1863.
[1115] e.g., Manchester Guardian, Sept. 23, 1863, quoted in The Index, Sept. 24, p. 343.
[1116] Mason's Mason, p. 456.
[1117] Russell Papers. To Russell, Oct. 26, 1863.