[54] Saturday Review, March 2, 1861, p. 216.
[55] London Chronicle, March 14, 1861. Cited in The Liberator, April 12, 1861.
[56] London Review, April 20, 1861. Cited in Littel's Living Age, Vol. LXIX, p. 495. The editor of the Review was a Dr. Mackay, but I have been unable to identify him, as might seem natural from his opinions, as the Mackay previously quoted (p. 37) who was later New York correspondent of the Times.
[57] Matthew Arnold, Letters, Vol. I., p. 150. Letter to Mrs. Forster, January 28, 1861.
[58] Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, Vol. II, pp. 271-78. Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, Vol. II, pp. 439 seq.
[59] Quarterly Review, Vol. 110, p. 282. July, 1861.
[60] Duffus, "English Opinion," p. 7.
[61] Westminster, Vol. LXXX, p. 587.
[62] Adams' course was bitterly criticized by his former intimate friend, Charles Sumner, but the probable purpose of Adams was, foreseeing the certainty of secession, to exhibit so strongly the arrogance and intolerance of the South as to create greater unity of Northern sentiment. This was a purpose that could not be declared and both at home and abroad his action, and that of other former anti-slavery leaders, for the moment weakened faith that the North was in earnest on the general issue of slavery.
[63] Services rendered by Russia to the American People during the War of the Rebellion, Petersburg, 1904, p. 5.