refusal to see the despatch, 153 and note[2];
      communications with Confederates in, 161, 163 notes,
        164, 165, 166, 168 note[4], 185, 188;
      view on the American proposal, 154, 162, 164
    Emancipation, as an issue, i. 223
    Emancipation proclamation, ii. 106, 113, 114 and note
    Intervention, i. 197; ii. 26, 36;
      fears commercial influence on policy, 26;
      See also Mediation infra
    Irish emigrants:  enlistment of, ii. 201
    Mediation, i. 284, 286, 297, 298-9; ii. 23, 37 note[1], 70;
      summary of Mercier’s plan of, i. 298-9;
      report on French isolated offer of, ii. 75-6;
      on Russian suggestion of, 76
    Mercier’s Richmond visit, i. 281 et seq. passim;
      ii. 24 note[2];
      comment on the result of, i. 286;
      effect of, on, 287;
      comment on newspaper report of, 287
    Privateering Bill, ii. 125, 126, 127
    Proclamation of Neutrality, presentation of, to Seward,
      i. 102, 103, 132, 133, 163 note[3], 164, 184
    Recognition of the South, i. 65, 66, 73, 197, 198; ii. 70
    Seward’s foreign war policy, i. 60, 128-9, 130, 132, 133, 136;
      advice to Russell on, 128-9, 131;
      anxiety as to Canada, 128, 129, 131
    Slave Trade Treaty, i. 276
    Slavery, i. 52, 73, 93 and note[3];
      account of changes in Northern feeling on, 223
    Southern Commissioners, i. 65, 72
    Southern shipbuilding, ii. 127, 139-141;
      on American War feeling over, 139-40
    Trent affair, i. 210, 211, 221;
      instructions in, 212-4;
      anxiety for Canada in, 221

Otherwise mentioned, i. 43, 57, 59, 74, 242, 243; ii. 147 note[4], 170
Lytton, Bulwer, on dissolution of the Union, cited, i. 182

McClellan, General: 
  advance of, on Richmond, i. 276, 279, 297, 298, 301; ii. i, 33;
  defeat of, by Lee, 1, 18, 33;
  rumoured capture of, 20, 21 note;
  Adams’ opinion on rumours, 20, 21 note;
  British newspaper reports of capture of, 20, 21 note;
  removal of, 30;
  defeats Lee at Antietam, 43, 85;
  fails to follow up his victory, 43, 105;
  as candidate in Presidential election, 234 note[2], 238
McFarland, i. 204, 234 note[2]
McHenry, George, The Cotton Trade, cited,
  ii. 6 note[2], 13 note[2], 185 note[2]
Mackay, Alexander, The Western World, cited and quoted, i. 30; ii. 274-5
Mackay, Charles, i. 37 and note, 46 note[4];
   as Times correspondent in New York, ii. 176 notes; 189, 226
  Forty Years’ Recollections, cited, ii. 176 note[2]
  “John and Jonathan” poem, quoted, i. 37 note
  Life and Liberty in America, quoted, i. 37 note
Mackay, Dr., editor of the London Review, i.