Stoeckl, Russian Minister at Washington: view of the secession, i. [53] note[3]; on Russian policy in Declaration of Paris negotiations, [164] note[1]; on privateers in Northern Pacific, [171] note[1]; and recognition of the South, [196] note[3], and Mercier's Richmond visit, [283] and note[1]; on mediation, [283] note[1]; ii. [37] and note[1], [59] note[4], [70] note[2], [76]; comments of, on Emancipation Proclamation, [107] note[1]; on the reconciliation of North and South followed by a foreign war, [251]; Seward's request to, on withdrawal of Southern belligerent rights, [265]; views on probable policy of Britain at the beginning of the Civil War, [269]-[70], [271]; on the Civil War as a warning against democracy, [297] note[4]; Otherwise mentioned, i. [54] note[1]; ii. [45] note[2]

Stone Boat Fleet. See Blockade.

Story, William Wetmore, i. [228], [256]; letters of, in Daily News, [228] and note[4]

Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher, and the Saturday Review, i. [181]; mentioned, ii. [89]-[90], [109] Uncle Tom's Cabin, i. [33] and note[1]

Stowell, Lord, i. [208]

Stuart--, British Minister at Washington: report of new Northern levies of men, ii. [30]; on recognition, [30] and note[3]; views on British policy, [30] note[3]; attitude to intervention and recognition, [36], [37], [66] note[3]; report of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, [37], [98]; suggestion of armistice, [47]; account of Federal "reprisals," [66] note[3]; on servile insurrection, [97]; describes Emancipation proclamation as a brutum fulmen, [101] Otherwise mentioned, ii. [25], [26], [66] note[3], [70], [100], [101] note[1]

Sturge, Joseph, A Visit to the United States in 1841, cited, i. [29]

Sumner, Charles, i. [79], [80]; Brooks' attack on, [33], [80]; hope of, for appointment as Minister to England, [55] and note[2]; views on annexation of Canada, [55]; in Trent affair, [231], [232], [234] note[3]; attitude to Southern Ports Bill, [248] and note[3]; advocacy of abolition, ii. [81], [90]; conversations with Lincoln on abolition, [82], [86]; attitude to Privateering Bill, [123], [124]; otherwise mentioned, i. [49] note, [83], [130] note[1], [220]; ii. [80], [132], [184], [247], [262], [280]

Sumter, Fort, fall of, i. [63], [73], [74], [83], [120], [172], [173]; Seward's policy on reinforcement of, [118]

Sutherland, Rev. Dr., prayer of in American Senate, i. [233] note