Great Britain and the American Civil War

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

INDEX

Aberdeen, Lord, i. [10], [13], [14], [15]; ii. [117] note [[1]]

Acton, Lord, ii. [301]

Adams, Brooks, The Seizure of the Laird Rams, cited, ii. [120] note[2], [125] note[1], [147] note[1], [150] note[1]

Adams, Charles Francis, i. [49], [62]-[3], [80]-[1]; attitude in the early days of the American crisis, [49] and note, [55], [63]; appointed American Minister in London, [62], [80]-[1], [96]; impressions of English opinion on the crisis, [96], [97], [98], [107]; alarm at Seward's Despatch No. 10, i. [127]; attitude of, to the Palmerston-Russell ministry, [170]; controversy on General Butler's order, [302]-[5]; reports to Seward on British public meetings on Emancipation Proclamation, ii. [107] and note[3], [223]; view of the popular manifestations on Emancipation, [108]; view as to decline of British confidence in the South, [184]; and the London Confederate States Aid Association, [191], [192]; receives deputations of allegiance during rumours before the fall of Savannah, [245] and note[1]; quoted on rumours in Britain of possible reunion and foreign war, ii. [251]-[2], [253]; on effect in England of the Hampton Roads Conference, [253]; advice of, to Seward on attitude to be observed to Britain, [253]-[255]; attitude to Seward's complaints of British and Canadian offences, [253]-[4]; comments of, on parliamentary debate and Bright's speech of confidence in Lincoln, [255] and note[1]; on feeling in Britain over Lincoln's assassination and the attempt on Seward, [257], [262]-[3]; receives addresses of sympathy from British organizations, [262]-[3]; and formal declaration of the end of the war, [268]; faith of, in ultimate British opinion on the issues in the Civil War, ii. [283]; views of, on the political controversy in England as influencing attitude to America [284], [285]; advice to Seward on the political position in relation to democracy, [290], [294], [296], [298] note[1]; quoted on the rising of democratic feeling in Britain, [291]; disappointed in attitude of British friends of progress, [278], [279], [280]; report of, on London mass meeting in favour of the North, [284]; and the Trades Unions of London meeting, [292], [294]-[5]; quoted on John Bright, [298]; on the attitude of the privileged classes to democracy, [298] note[2], [300]; on the influence of American institutions on the political movement in Great Britain, [302] Diplomatic action and views of, in regard to: Alabama case: ii. [35], [120] and note[2], [121], [131] British Foreign Enlistment Act, i. [135], [148]-[9]; ii. [201]-[2] Bunch controversy, i. [186], [187], [190], [193], [195] Confederate Commissioners: representations on intercourse with, i. [105]-[6], [107] Confederate Cotton Loan: reported connection with, ii. [161] and note[4]; views on, [179] Confederate Shipbuilding in England: protests against, ii. [118], [128], [131], [137], [143], [145] note[2]; and U.S. Navy Department plan to stop, [130] note[2]; Laird Rams incident, [144], [146], [147] note[1], [150] Cotton: report on British position, ii. [99] Declaration of Paris negotiation: action on proposed convention, i. [141]-[69] passim; view of American intention, [144], [169]; failure of his negotiation, [137], [145]-[6], [169]-[71] Gladstone and Lewis speeches, ii. [55] Irish emigrants, enlistment of, ii. [201]-[2] Lindsay's efforts for mediation, ii. [34]-[5], [212] Mediation: presents the "servile war" threat against, ii. [18]-[19], [95]; view of England's reply to French proposals on, [71]; advantages of an anti-slavery avowal, [98]-[9] Neutrality Law, See British Foreign Enlistment Act supra Privateering Bill, ii. [122]-[3], [125], [127]; advises against issue of privateers, [131] Proclamation of Neutrality, The: representations on, i. [98]-[100], [101], [105], [107] and note[2], [300]-[1]; despatch on settlement of peaceful policy, [134]; protests against British recognition of belligerency, [159]; advice to Seward on, [275] Roebuck's motion: report on, ii. [144] "Servile War" threat, ii. [18]-[19], [95] and note[4] Slavery: urges Northern declaration on, ii. [98]-[9]; comments on Times criticism of anti-slavery meetings, [108] Southern Ports: plan of collecting duties at, ii. [198] Trent Affair, the: interviewed by Palmerston, i. [208]-[9]; statement on the James Adger, [209]-[10]; suspicion of British policy in, [218]; views on public opinion in, [222]-[3]; officially states Wilkes acted without authorization, [226]; report on English hope of peaceful settlement, [228], [229]; on British opinion after settlement of, [238], [240]; on effect of, in Great Britain, [243]; view of popular attitude in Britain in the crisis of, ii. [283] Appreciation and criticisms on: Characterized in The Index, ii. [196] Lord Lyons', report on, i. [62]-[3]; opinion on, ii. [71] note[4] Lord Russell's view of his diplomacy, ii. [128] Tory approval of, ii. [197] Otherwise mentioned, i. [1], [2], [129], [198], [263], [274], [276]; ii. [31], [100]

Adams, C.F., Jun., view of British attitude and the Proclamation of Neutrality, i. [109], [110]; view of the delay in his father's journey to England, [112] note; view on Seward's attitude in Declaration of Paris negotiation, [138], [153]-[6]; examination of British action in the negotiation, [154]-[5]; review of the Trent affair, cited, [203] note, et seq. passim; on American feeling over seizure of Mason and Slidell, [218]; and the Hotze materials, ii. [154] note

Adams, E.D.: British Interests and Activities in Mexico, cited ii. [117] note[1] "The Point of View of the British Traveller in America," cited, i. [23] note; ii. [274] note[1]

Adams, Henry, i. [138]; ii. [292] note[1]; view of, on W.E. Forster, i. [58] note[2]; on British Proclamation of Neutrality, [110]; on American exultation in Trent affair, [223]; on British attitude in Trent affair, [230]; view of Gregory's speech on the blockade, [270]; on British view of prospects in the War, [297]; on possibility of intervention, ii. [23]; on advantage of a Northern declaration on slavery, [23]; on the Trades Unions of London meeting, [292] and note[1] [293] "Declaration, The, of Paris," 1861 ... reviewed, [146] et seq., [153]; view of Russell's policy in, [146]-[150], [159]; view of Lyons, [147], [150] Education of Henry Adams quoted, i. [149] note[3]; ii. [172] note[2]; cited, ii. [50] note[1]