Blockade of Southern Ports, the: Lincoln's declaration on, i. [83], [89], [90], [92], [111], [121], [122], [244], [245]; commencement of, i. [245]; method of warning at the port, [245], [246]; as involving hardship to British merchants, [245]-[6]; effectiveness of, [252]-[71] passim; effect on British Trade, [252], [254], [263]; effect on Cotton Trade, [262]; ii. [8], [9]; statistics as to effectiveness, i. [268] note[3] Southern Ports Bill, i. [246] et seq. Stone Boat Fleet Blockade, i. [253] et seq., [269], [302] British attitude to, i. [95], [244], [245], [246], [263] and note[2], [267], [270]; ii. [5], [265]; Parliamentary debate on, i. [267] et seq.; Gregory's motion [268] et seq.; press attitude, [246]; Bright's view, ii. [14], [15] Confederate representations on, i. [265] Napoleon's view of, i. [290]
Booth, assassinator of Lincoln, ii. [258], [259], [263]
Border States, The: efforts at compromise, i. [49]; sympathies in, [173]; the "Border State policy" of Lincoln, [173], [176], [272] note[1]; ii. [82]; and Confiscation Bill, Lincoln's fears, [82]; attitude of, to emancipation, ii. [83], [84], [87]; not affected in Proclamation of Emancipation, [86]
Bourke, Hon. Robert, ii. [187], [193]
Boynton, Rev. C.B., English and French Neutrality, etc., cited and quoted, ii. [225] note[1]
Bright, John, i. [58] note[2], [77]; quoted on Times attitude towards the United States, [55] note[3]; view of the Northern attempt at reconquest, [72]; views of, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, [108], [110]; speech on Trent affair, [221]-[2]; letter to Sumner on Trent affair, influence on Lincoln, [232]; speech on Britain's attitude on conclusion of Trent affair, [241]-[2]; view on the war as for abolition, [241]; on distress in Lancashire, ii. [13], [14]; view of the blockade, [14], [15]; on the cotton shortage, [15]; and Gladstone's Newcastle speech, [48]; view of Emancipation Proclamation, [48] note[2], [105]-[6], [111]-[12]; on England's support if emancipation an object in the war, [88]-[9]; the escape of the Alabama, [120]; at Trades Unions of London meeting, [132]-[3], [134], [291]-[3]; support of the North, [132], [283]-[4], [290], [291]-[295]; on the interests of the unenfranchised in the American conflict, [132], [295]; on the unfriendly neutrality of the Government, [134]; rebuked by Palmerston, [135]; trouncing of Roebuck, [172] and note[2]; on Britain's neutrality (Nov., 1863), [184]; championship of democratic institutions, i. [221]-[2]; ii. [132]-[3], [276]-[7], [282], [283]; popularity of, as advocate of Northern cause, [224], [225]; influence of, for the North, i. [58] note[2]; ii. [224]; Lincoln's pardon of Alfred Rubery in honour of, [225] and note[1]; quoted on feeling of the British Government and people towards United States in Jan., 1865, etc., [247]; confidence of, in pacific policy of Lincoln, [255] and note[1]; quoted on the ruling class and democracy, [280]; attack on Southern aristocracy by, [290]; heads deputation to Adams, [294]; eulogy of George Thompson by, [224] note[1] Adams' opinion on, ii. [298]; view of, in The Index, ii. [298]-[9]; Laird's view of, ii. [134]; Karl Marx's view of, [292] note[1]; Lord Salisbury, quoted on the oratory of, [290] note[1], the Times attack on, [295]-[6] Otherwise mentioned, i. [69], [179], [289]; ii. [68], [69], [132] note[1], [172] note[1], [186], [187], [191], [278], [281]. (See also under Morning Star)
British, See also under Great Britain
British emigration to America, i. [23] et seq, [35]; effect of American political ideals on, [23], [24], [25], [26]
British Foreign Enlistment Act, ii. [116]-[7], [118]; application of, in American crisis, question in Commons, i. [94]; Russell's idea of amending, ii. [124], [196]; Russell's advice to Palmerston on, [131]; debate in Parliament on, [132], [133]-[4], [135]; Forster and the violation of, [133]; Government reply to Liverpool shipowners on, [142]; Kearsarge incident, [202]
British Press. See under names of Papers and under subject headings