Mure, Robert: arrest of, i. [186]-[8], [192], [193] note[1], [201]; Lyons' views on, [187]-[8]
Napoleon I., Emperor, i. [4], [8]; and American contentions on neutral rights, i. [18] Napoleonic Wars, i. [4]-[7], [23]
Napoleon III., Emperor: American policy of, ii. [39]; differences with Thouvenel on, ii. [19] and note[2], [39] Blockade, view of, on the, i. [290] British policy: vexation at, i. [295] Confederate Cotton Loan, attitude to, ii. [160] note[2] Mediation: hopes for, ii. [23], [59]; suggests an armistice for six months, [59], [60] et seq., [69]; request for joint action by Russia and Britain with France on, [60]; British views on, [60]-[65]; British reply, [65] and note[1], [66], [152], [155]; Russian attitude to, [59] note[4], [63] and [3], [64], [66]; offers friendly mediation, [75]-[6] Interview with Lindsay on, i. [289] et seq.; reported offer on, to England, [290], [291] Interviews with Slidell on, ii. [24], [57] note[2], [60] Mercier's Richmond visit, connection of with, i. [287], [288]; displeasure at, [288] Mexican policy of, i. [259]-[61]; ii. [163], [198] Polish question, ii. [163], [164] Recognition: private desires for, ii. [20]; endeavours to secure British concurrence, [19]-[20], [38]; reported action and proposals in Roebuck's motion, [166]-[77] passim; interview with Slidell on abolition in return for recognition, [249]-[50] Otherwise mentioned, i. [114], [191]; ii. [32], [54], [71], [180], [204], [270] Benjamin's view of, ii. [236] note[1] Mason's opinion of, ii. [172]-[3] Palmerston's views of, ii. [59]
National Intelligencer, The, i. [297]; ii. [49] note[2]
Neumann, Karl Friedrich: History of the United States by, cited, ii. [111] note[2]
Neutrality, Proclamations of: British i. [93], [94]-[6], [100], [110], [111], [134], [157], [168], [174]; statements on British position, [99], [111], [163] note[3]; ii. [265]; British Press views on, i. [136] note French, i. [96] note[1], [102] American attitude to, i. [96]-[110] passim, [132], [135], [136], [142], [174]; British-French joint action, [102], [132] and note[2]; Seward's refusal to receive officially, [102], [103], [132] and note[2]; [133], [164], [169]; view of, as hasty and premature, [107]-[8], [109], [110], [112]; Seward's view of, [134]-[5]; modern American judgment on, [110]
New England States, The, i. [17], [18]; opposition of, to war of 1812 ... i. [7]
New Nation, The (New York), quoted on Lincoln's despotism, ii. [232]
New Orleans, i. [253] note[1]; capture of, [279], [296]; ii. [16]; effect of, on Confederates, i. [296]; Seward's promises based on, ii. [16], [26]