Slavery: cotton supplies and, i. [13]; controversy in America on, [32], [36]; English opinion on, [31]-[5], [37]-[8], [40]; as an issue in the Civil War, [45], [46], [173], [175], [176], [179], [181], [241], [242]; ii. [78], [88]-[93], [222]; Confederates identified with, i. [71]; ii. [220]; Southern arguments for, [3] and note[2]; attitude of the North to, [78]; growth of anti-slavery sentiment, [83], [84]; failure of the slaves to rise, [86]; Northern declaration on, urged, [98]-[9], [107]; British public meetings on, [109] note[2]; Southern declaration on, [106]. See also African Slave Trade, Emancipation, Servile Insurrection, etc.
Slidell, John, "Special Commissioner of the Confederates" to France, i. [203]; captured on the Trent, [204]-[5], [234] and note[2]; connection of with Napoleon's Mexican policy, [261] note[1]; plan of action of, [264]-[5]; received by Thouvenel, [266] note[1]; view on Continental and British interests in the blockade, [267] note[3], [273]; view of Mercier's Richmond visit, [228]; on Lindsay's interviews with Napoleon, [292]; views of, on the capture of New Orleans, [296]; idea to demand recognition from France, [306], [307]; ii. [25], [28]; hopes of mediation by France, ii. [19], [25]; interview of, with Napoleon, [23], [24]; makes offers to Napoleon and to Thouvenel, [24], [25]; letter to Benjamin on failure to secure intervention, [29]; interview with Napoleon on Armistice, [59] and note[2], [60]; memorandum of, to the Emperor, asking for separate recognition, [75]; on shipbuilding for Confederates in France, [128]; quoted on position of France in relation to mediation, [155]; and Confederate Cotton Loan, [158] and note[3], [159], [161], [163]; interview of, with Napoleon, on recognition, [167]; and Napoleon's instruction on recognition in Roebuck's motion, [168]-[9], [172]; and Mason's recall, [180], [181], [182]; opinion of Russell, [213]; suggestion on Lindsay's motion, [213]; disappointment at result of Mason's interview with Palmerston, [215]; opinion on European attitude to the South, [215]; interview with Napoleon on the abolition of slavery in return for recognition, [249]-[50]; quoted on Lee's surrender [256]-[7]; appreciation of as diplomatic agent, ii. [25], [180] note[3]; correspondence of, i. [261] note; otherwise mentioned, ii. [154] note[1]. See also under heading Confederate Commissioners
Smith, Goldwin, ii. [136] note[2], [189] note[2]; on Gladstone and Canada, [69], [70] note[1]; quoted on the influence of the Times, [178] note[3], [189] note[2]; on the Daily Telegraph, [189] note[2]; tribute of, to T.B. Potter, [224] note[3]; view of the Times attitude to democracy, [299]; criticism of the privileged classes of Great Britain, [303]-[4] America and England in their present relations, quoted, ii. [304], and note[2] Civil War, The, in America, cited, ii. [223] note[2], [224] note[3]; quoted, [304] note[1] Does the Bible sanction American Slavery?" ii. [110] Letter, A, to a Whig Member of the Southern Independence Association, ii. [194]-[5]; quoted, [299]
Smith, T.C., Parties and Slavery, cited, ii. [3] note[2]
Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America, ii. [207]; letters of, to Members of Parliament, [207]-[8], [210]-[11]; deputation of, to Palmerston, [216]
Somerset, Duke of, i. [207]
South Carolina, secession of, i. [41], [44]; Times view on, [55]; and restoration of Colonial relations: some British misconceptions on, [43], [44] and note
Southern Independence Association, The, ii. [185], [189], [191]-[5], [204], [220], [298]; cessation of meetings of, [193]-[4], [222]-[3]; apathy and dissension in, [205], [207], [208]; resolution and deputation to Palmerston, [210]-[2], [216]; ticket meetings, [239]; Oldham meeting, [239], [240]
Southern Ports Bill. See Blockade
Southern States: attitude of, to protection policy, i. [21], [47]; and reciprocity treaty with British-American provinces, [21]-[2]; influences directing British trade to, [22]; British press attitude to, [40]-[48] passim; characterization of, [41]; right of secession, [42], [82], [175], [176], [269]; tariff as a cause for secession, [47]; question of recognition considered, [58]; secession, [172]-[3]; preparations for war, [172]; recognized as belligerents, [190], [191], [172]; expulsion of British Consuls, by, ii. [148] note[2]; activities of British friends of, [152], [187]-[8], [190], [193]-[4], [239], [298]; Conservative hopes for success of, [300]; views on French attitude, ii. [236] note[2]; effect of the fall of Savannah on, [246]; end of the Confederacy, [248], [259], [268]; hope of, from "foreign war," [252]; effect on, of Lincoln's assassination [258]; withdrawal of belligerent rights to, [264]-[6]; end of the war; naval policy towards, [266]-[7] Belligerent rights, recognition of, i. [87], [88], [95], [108], [109], [150], [151], [155], [166] note[3]. See Neutrality Proclamations. Commissioners of, See under Confederate Commissioners Cotton, obsession as to, i. [252] note[2]; ii. [4], [5] Cotton Loan, ii. [155] et seq. [179]; reception of, in England, [160]-[1]; amounts realized by, [162] Declaration of Paris negotiation: attitude to, i. [186] Finance, ii. [156] et seq. Hampton Roads Conference: suggestions in, ii. [252]-[3] Leaders of: British information on, i. [58]-[9] Manifesto to Europe, ii. [241] and note[2], [242] Mediation: feeling in, on England's refusal of, ii. [71] and note[2]; hope of change in British policy on, [213]-[4] Military resources: decline of, ii. [219]; desertions from the Army, [222] Negroes, arming of, ii. [240]-[1], [251] Privateering. See that heading. Recognition of independence: anger at failure to secure, i. [252] note[2]; desire for, without mediation, ii. [217] Secret service funds, ii. [154] note[1] Shipbuilding in British ports for, ii. [115] et seq.; British protest to, on, [148]. See also under Alabama, Laird Rams, Oreto, etc. Slavery attitude, ii. [88] and note[3]; intention of gradual emancipation, [98]; British views on, [220]; offer of abolition in return for recognition, [249]-[51]