in America_, London, 1866.) The list may be
regarded as an analysis of the more important, attracting the attention
of _The Liberator_ and of Adams.]

[Footnote 1204: At a banquet given to Thompson in 1863 he was declared
by Bright to have been the "real liberator of the slaves in the English
colonies," and by P.A. Taylor as, by his courage "when social obloquy
and personal danger had to be incurred for the truth's sake," having
rendered great services "to the cause of Abolition in America."]

[Footnote 1205: _The Liberator_, Jan. 15, 1864. Letter to James Buffum,
of Lynn, Dec. 10, 1863.]

[Footnote 1206: Goldwin Smith's pamphlet: "The Civil War in America: An
Address read at the last meeting of the Manchester Union and
Emancipation Society" (held on January 26, 1866), pays especial tribute
to Thomas Bayley Potter, M.P., stating "you boldly allied yourself with
the working-men in forming this association." Smith gives a five-page
list of other leading members, among whom, in addition to some Northern
friends already named, are to be noted Thomas Hughes, Duncan McLaren,
John Stuart Mill. There are eleven noted "Professors," among them
Cairnes, Thorold Rogers, and Fawcett. The publicity committee of this
society during three years had issued and circulated "upwards of four
hundred thousand books, pamphlets, and tracts." Here, as previously, the
activities of Americans in England are not included. Thus George Francis
Train, correspondent of the _New York Herald_, made twenty-three
speeches between January, 1861, and March, 1862. ("Union Speeches in
England.")]

[Footnote 1207: For text of Lincoln's pardon see Trevelyan, _Bright_, p.
296. Lincoln gave the pardon "especially as a public mark of the esteem
held by the United States of America for the high character and steady
friendship of the said John Bright...." The names of leading friends of
the South have been given in Chapter XV.]

[Footnote 1208: This was a commonplace of American writing at the time
and long after. A Rev. C.B. Boynton published a book devoted to the
thesis that England and France had united in a "policy" of repressing
the development of America and Russia (_English and French Neutrality
and the Anglo-French Alliance in their relations to the United States
and Russia_, Cincinnati, C.F. Vest & Co., 1864). Boynton wrote: "You
have not come to the bottom of the conduct of Great Britain, until you
have touched that delicate and real foundation cause-