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[Footnote 1278: _Ibid._, p. 197. Seward to Adams, March 8, 1865.]

[Footnote 1279: March 8, 1865. (Bigelow, _Retrospections_, II, p. 361.)]

[Footnote 1280: Russell Papers. Burnley to Russell, Feb. 23 and March 13, 1865.]

[Footnote 1281: "The speech of Mr. Bright is universally admitted to have been one of the most brilliant specimens of his peculiar style of oratory. In its reminiscences, equally unwelcome to both sides of the House, it was yet received after the fas.h.i.+on of an unpleasant medicine, which has the aid of a strong and savoury medium to overwhelm the nauseous taste." (_U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments_, 1865-66, Pt. I, p. 246.

Adams to Seward, March 16, 1865.)]

[Footnote 1282: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 1283: _Ibid._, p. 262. Adams to Seward, March 24, 1865. Adams wrote of his own situation that it "seems at last to be getting easy and comfortable, so far as freedom from anxiety is concerned." (_A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, p. 258. To his son, March 24, 1865.)]

[Footnote 1284: Bruce, who succeeded Lyons at Was.h.i.+ngton, reached New York on April 7. His first letter to Russell from Was.h.i.+ngton, dated April 14, stated that America was certainly preparing to oust Maximilian in Mexico, and that even the Southern prisoners were eager to join the United States troops in an expedition for this purpose.

(Russell Papers.)]

[Footnote 1285: _U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments_, 1865-66, Part II, p. 323.

Adams to Seward, April 20, 1865.]

[Footnote 1286: April 24, 1865.]

[Footnote 1287: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 1288: Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, April 23, 1865.]

[Footnote 1289: _Ibid._, Slidell to Mason, April 26, 1865.]

[Footnote 1290: April 24, 1865.]

[Footnote 1291: _U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments_, 1865-66, Pt. I, p. 331.

Adams to Seward, April 28, 1865.]

[Footnote 1292: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p. 417.]

[Footnote 1293: Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell, April 9, 1861.]

[Footnote 1294: May 6, 1865.]

[Footnote 1295: April 27, 1865.]

[Footnote 1296: April 29, 1865.]

[Footnote 1297: Hansard, 3d. Ser., CLXXVIII, pp. 1073 and 1081.]

[Footnote 1298: _Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons_, Vol. LVII.

"Correspondence respecting the a.s.sa.s.sination of the late President of the United States."]

[Footnote 1299: Russell Papers. Bruce to Russell, April 18, 1865.]

[Footnote 1300: _Ibid._, April 24, 1865.]

[Footnote 1301: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, II, 267. Charles Francis Adams to his son, April 28, 1865.]

[Footnote 1302: _U.S. Messages and Doc.u.ments, 1865-66_, Pt. I, pp. 344, 361. Adams to Hunter, May 4 and May 11, 1865.]

[Footnote 1303: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXVIII, p. 1219.]

[Footnote 1304: _Ibid._, pp. 1242-46.]

[Footnote 1305: Russell Papers. Burnley to Russell, Jan. 16, 1865.]

[Footnote 1306: Russian Archives. Stoeckl to F.O., March 1-13, 1865. No.

523. Stoeckl was opposed to this.]

[Footnote 1307: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXVII, p. 1922.]

[Footnote 1308: _Ibid._, CLXXIX, p. 286.]

[Footnote 1309: F.O., Am., Vol. 1018. No. 297. Bruce to Russell, May 16, 1865.]

[Footnote 1310: _Ibid._, No. 303. Bruce to Russell, May 19, 1865.]

[Footnote 1311: _Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons_, Vol. LVII.

"Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 10.]

[Footnote 1312: _Ibid._, "Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America."]

[Footnote 1313: _Ibid._, "Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 9.]

[Footnote 1314: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLx.x.x, pp. 1-6.]

[Footnote 1315: _Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons_, Vol. LVII.

"Correspondence respecting President's Proclamation of 22nd May, 1865."

Bruce to Russell, May 26, 1865.]

[Footnote 1316: _Ibid._, June 16, 1865.]

[Footnote 1317: _Ibid._, "Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 9. Seward to Bruce, June 19, 1865.]

[Footnote 1318: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLx.x.x, p. 1143.]

[Footnote 1319: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1865, _Commons_, Vol. LVII.

"Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 10.]

[Footnote 1320: Russian Archives, Stoeckl to F.O., Dec. 23, 1859/Jan. 4, 1860. No. 146.]

[Footnote 1321: _Ibid._, Stoeckl to F.O., Jan. 17-29, 1861. No. 267. He reports that he has seen a confidential letter from Thouvenel to Mercier outlining exactly his own ideas as to England being the sole gainer by the dissolution of the Union.]

[Footnote 1322: For an a.n.a.lysis of this change see _The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy_, Vol II, p. 277, which also quotes a remarkable speech by Disraeli.]