[1330] March, 30, 1861.
[1331] March 16, 1861.
[1332] To John Bigelow, April 14, 1861. (Bigelow, Retrospections, I, p. 347.)
[1333] April 27, 1861.
[1334] Bunch wrote to Russell, May 15, 1861, that the war in America was the "natural result of the much vaunted system of government of the United States"; it had "crumbled to pieces," and this result had long been evident to the public mind of Europe. (F.O., Am., Vol. 780, No. 58.)
[1335] State Department, Eng., Vol. 77, No. 9. Adams to Seward, June 21, 1861.
[1336] I have made an effort to identify writers in Blackwood's, but am informed by the editors that it is impossible to do this for the period before 1870, old correspondence having been destroyed.
[1337] July, 1861.
[1338] The Atlantic Monthly for November, 1861, takes up the question, denying that democracy is in any sense "on trial" in America, so far as the permanence of American institutions is concerned. It still does not see clearly the real nature of the controversy in England.
[1339] Aug. 17, 1861.