controversy in America on, 32, 36;
  English opinion on, 31-5, 37-8, 40;
  as an issue in the Civil War, 45, 46, 173, 175, 176, 179, 181, 241, 242;
    ii. 78, 88-93, 222;
  Confederates identified with, i. 71; ii. 220;
  Southern arguments for, 3 and note[2];
  attitude of the North to, 78;
  growth of anti-slavery sentiment, 83, 84;
  failure of the slaves to rise, 86;
  Northern declaration on, urged, 98-9, 107;
  British public meetings on, 109 note[2];
  Southern declaration on, 106.
  See also African Slave Trade, Emancipation, Servile Insurrection, etc. 
Slidell, John, “Special Commissioner of the Confederates” to France,
  i. 203; captured on the Trent, 204-5, 234 and note[2];
  connection of with Napoleon’s Mexican policy, 261 note[1];
  plan of action of, 264-5;
  received by Thouvenel, 266 note[1];
  view on Continental and British interests in the blockade,
    267 note[3], 273;
  view of Mercier’s Richmond visit, 228;
  on Lindsay’s interviews with Napoleon, 292;
  views of, on the capture of New Orleans, 296;
  idea to demand recognition from France, 306, 307; ii. 25, 28;
  hopes of mediation by France, ii. 19, 25;
  interview of, with Napoleon, 23, 24;
  makes offers to Napoleon and to Thouvenel, 24, 25;
  letter to Benjamin on failure to secure intervention, 29;
  interview with Napoleon on Armistice, 59 and note[2], 60;
  memorandum of, to the Emperor, asking for separate recognition, 75;
  on shipbuilding for Confederates in France, 128;
  quoted on position of France
    in relation to mediation, 155;
    and Confederate Cotton Loan, 158 and note[3], 159, 161, 163;
  interview of, with Napoleon, on recognition, 167;
  and Napoleon’s instruction on recognition
    in Roebuck’s motion, 168-9, 172;
    and Mason’s recall, 180, 181, 182;
  opinion of Russell, 213;
  suggestion on Lindsay’s motion, 213;
  disappointment at result of Mason’s interview with Palmerston, 215;
  opinion on European attitude to the South, 215;
  interview with Napoleon on the abolition of slavery in return for
    recognition, 249-50;
  quoted on Lee’s surrender 256-7;
  appreciation of as diplomatic agent, ii. 25, 180 note[3];
  correspondence of, i. 261 note;
  otherwise mentioned, ii. 154 note[1].
  See also under heading Confederate Commissioners
Smith, Goldwin, ii. 136 note[2], 189 note[2];
  on Gladstone and Canada, 69, 70 note[1];
  quoted on the influence of the Times,
  178 note[3], 189 note[2];
  on the Daily Telegraph, 189 note[2];
  tribute of, to T.B.  Potter, 224 note[3];
  view of the Times attitude to democracy, 299;
  criticism of the privileged classes of