[252] In the general American argument before the Geneva Arbitration Court it was stated that the practical effect of British diplomacy in this connection was that "Great Britain was thus to gain the benefit to its neutral commerce of the recognition of the second and third articles, the rebel privateers and cruisers were to be protected and their devastation legalized, while the United States were to be deprived of a dangerous weapon of assault upon Great Britain." Cited in Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, IV, p. 280.
[253] Henry Adams, Historical Essays, pp. 237-279.
[254] Ibid., p. 271.
[255] Ibid., p. 273.
[256] Ibid., p. 277.
[257] This same view was maintained, though without stating details, by Henry Adams, as late as 1907. See his "Education of Henry Adams," Private Edition, p. 128.
[258] Bancroft, Seward, II, Ch. 31.
[259] Cited by Bancroft, Seward, II, p. 189.
[260] Ibid.
[261] Ibid., p. 193.