wer which the _Times_ has, not
from the quality of its writing, which of late has been rather poor, but
from its exclusive command of publicity and its exclusive access to a
vast number of minds. The _ignorance_ in which it has been able to keep
a great part of the public is astounding." (To E.S. Beesly. Haultain,
_Correspondence of Goldwin Smith_, p. 11.)]

[Footnote 1107: _The Index_, July 23, 1863, p. 200. The italics are
mine. The implication is that a day customarily celebrated as one of
rejoicing has now become one for gloom. No _Englishman_ would be likely
to regard July 4 as a day of rejoicing.]

[Footnote 1108: Mason Papers. To Mason, July 25, 1863.]

[Footnote 1109: _U.S. Diplomatic Correspondence_, 1863, Pt. I, p. 329.
Adams to Seward, July 30, 1863.]

[Footnote 1110: Mason, _Mason_, p. 449.]

[Footnote 1111: Sept. 4, 1863. The _Times_ was now printing American
correspondence sharply in contrast to that which preceded Gettysburg
when the exhaustion and financial difficulties of the North were dilated
upon. Now, letters from Chicago, dated August 30, declared that, to the
writer's astonishment, the West gave every evidence that the war had
fostered rather than checked, prosperity. (Sept. 15, 1863.).]

[Footnote 1112: Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, Sept. 14 and 15, 1863.
Slidell to Mason, Sept. 16, 1863.]

[Footnote 1113: McRea wrote to Hotze, September 17, 1863, that in his
opinion Slidell and Hotze were the only Southern agents of value
diplomatically in Europe (Hotze Correspondence). He thought all others
would soon be recalled. Slidell, himself, even in his letter to Mason,
had the questionable taste of drawing a rosy picture of his own and his
family's intimate social intercourse with the Emperor and the Empress.]

[Footnote 1114: Sept. 23, 1863.]

[Footnote 1115: e.g., _Manchester Guardian_, Sept. 23, 1863, quoted in
_The Index_, Sept. 24, p. 343.]

[Footnote 1116: Mason's _Mason_, p. 456.]

[Footnote 1117: Russell Papers. To Russell, Oct. 26, 1863.]

[Footnote 1118: _Ibid._, Lyons wrote after receiving a copy of a
despatch sent by Russell to Grey, in France, dated October 10, 1863.]

[Footnote 1119: F.O., Am., 896. No. 788. Confidential. Lyons to Russell,
Nov. 3, 1863. "It seems, in fact, to be certain that at the commencement
of a war with Great Britain, the relative positions of the United States
and its adversary would be very nearly the reverse of what they would
have been if a war ha