refusal of, ii. 71 and note[2];
    hope of change in British policy on, 213-4
  Military resources: 
    decline of, ii. 219;
    desertions from the Army, 222
  Negroes, arming of, ii. 240-1, 251
  Privateering. See that heading.
  Recognition of independence: 
    anger at failure to secure, i. 252 note[2];
    desire for, without mediation, ii. 217
  Secret service funds, ii. 154 note[1]
  Shipbuilding in British ports for, ii. 115 et seq.;
    British protest to, on, 148.
    See also under Alabama, Laird Rams, Oreto, etc. 
  Slavery attitude, ii. 88 and note[3];
    intention of gradual emancipation, 98;
    British views on, 220;
    offer of abolition in return for recognition, 249-51
Spain, and Mexican debts, i. 259, 260
Spargo, Karl Marx, cited, ii. 292 note[1]
Spectator, The, i. 70 note[1]; ii. 231 note;
  constant advocacy of Northern cause, i. 39;
  on Lincoln’s election, 39;
  views on the Civil War, 41, 69, 100, 181;
  on secession, 57;
  on Proclamation of Neutrality, 100, 136 note[1];
  attacks Bulwer Lytton’s speech on dissolution of the Union, 182;
  on servile insurrection and emancipation, ii. 79, 80;
  on British Press attitude to emancipation, 89;
  on declaration of anti-slavery purpose in the war, 89;
  on the Emancipation Proclamation, 104-5;
  on British lack of sympathy with the North, 280;
  on anti-slavery sympathies and view of democracy in England, 280;
  otherwise mentioned, i. 180; ii. 105, 223 note[1], 282
Spence, James, i. 183 note[2], 266 and note[2];
  conferences of, in London, 266, 267, 272 and note[1], 273;
  prevents demonstration by cotton operatives, 300;
  plan to appeal to the Tories, ii. 153, 155, 164;
  as Confederate financial adviser, 156, 157, 158;
  and Confederate Cotton Loan, 159, 161-2;
  urges withdrawal of Roebuck’s motion, 173-4;
  effect of the fall of Vicksburg on, 179;
  organization of Southern Clubs by, 186-7, 188, 189, 190;
  hopes for intervention, 187-8, 189-90;
  organization of Southern Independence Association by, 191;
  organization of meetings by, 191, 222-3;
  organizes petitions to Parliament, 193;
  comments of, on the Palmerston-Mason interview, 216-7;
  on slavery clause in Southern Independence Association’s address, 220
  Slidell’s opinion of, i. 266 note[3]; ii. 159;
    Otherwise mentioned, i. 302; ii. 49 note[2], 181, 193
  The American Union, i. 183 and note[2], 266 note[3];
    ii. 112
Spencer, Herbert, quoted, i. 38
Spurgeon, C. H., prayer of, for victory of the North, ii. 109-110
Stanley of Alderley, Lord, ii. 42
Stephen, Leslie, meeting of, with Seward, ii. 176 note[2]
Stephens, Alexander H., Vice-President of Southern