of the views of the cabinet, then is my term likely to be very
short. The animus, as it respects Mr. Davis and the recognition of
the rebel cause, is very apparent. Oct. 9:--We are now passing
through the very crisis of our fate. I have had thoughts of seeking
a conference with Lord Russell, to ask an explanation of Gladstone's
position; but, on reflection, I think I shall let a few days at
least pass, and then perhaps sound matters incidentally."--Rhodes,
iv. p. 340. _Life of Adams_, pp. 286-7.

59 Oct. 18, 1862.

M28 Estimate Of His Error

60 Rhodes, iv. p. 340. Also _Life of C. F. Adams_, p. 287.

61 Lewis, throughout 1861, used language of characteristic coolness
about the war: "It is the most singular action for the restitution
of conjugal rights that the world ever heard of." "You may conquer
an insurgent province, but you cannot conquer a seceding state"
(Jan. 21, '61). "The Northern states have been drifted, or rather
plunged into war without having any intelligible aim or policy. The
South fight for independence; but what do the North fight for,
except to gratify passion or pride?"--_Letters_, p. 395, etc. See
also preface to his _Administration of Great Britain_ (p. xix),
where he says, in 1856, he sees no solution but separation.

M29 A Balanced Speech

62 There is a story, not very accurate, I should suppose, about Mr.
Disraeli's concurrence in the Emperor's view, told from Slidell's
despatches in an article by O. F. Aldus, in _North American Review_,
October 1879.

63 June 30, 1863. _Hansard_, vol. 171, p. 1800. On four other occasions
Mr. Gladstone gave public utterance to his opinion "on the subject
of the war and the disruption"--at Leith, Jan. 11, 1862, at
Manchester, April 24, 1862, at Newcastle, Oct. 7, 1862, and once in
parliament when a member spoke of the bursting of the American
bubble, he says, "I commented on the expressions with a reproof as
sharp as I could venture to make it" (May 27, 1861).

64 See Appendix.

65 x. iii. 10.

_ 66 Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott_, ii. pp. 284-293.

_ 67 Richard III._ I. sc. ii. At Salisbury, Sept. 7, 1866.

68 His school friend, and later, governor-general of India.

M30 Aberdeen, Graham, And Herbert

_ 69 March 19._--Reading, conversation, and survey in the house