Government,
  i. 59, 81, 121;
  interview of, with Schleiden, 122, 123;
  discussion of, with Seward on Confederate foreign war plan, ii. 252
Stevenson, American Minister to London, letter of, to Palmerston,
  quoted, i. 109-10
Stoeckl, Russian Minister at Washington: 
  view of the secession, i. 53 note[3];
  on Russian policy in Declaration of Paris negotiations, 164 note[1];
  on privateers in Northern Pacific, 171 note[1];
  and recognition of the South, 196 note[3],
  and Mercier’s Richmond visit, 283 and note[1];
  on mediation, 283 note[1];
  ii. 37 and note[1], 59 note[4], 70 note[2], 76;
  comments of, on Emancipation Proclamation, 107 note[1];
  on the reconciliation of North and South followed by a foreign war, 251;
  Seward’s request to, on withdrawal of Southern belligerent rights, 265;
  views on probable policy of Britain at the beginning
  of the Civil War, 269-70, 271;
  on the Civil War as a warning against democracy, 297 note[4];
  Otherwise mentioned, i. 54 note[1]; ii. 45 note[2]
Stone Boat Fleet. See Blockade. 
Story, William Wetmore, i. 228, 256;
  letters of, in Daily News, 228 and note[4]
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher, and the Saturday Review, i. 181;
  mentioned, ii. 89-90, 109
  Uncle Tom’s Cabin, i. 33 and note[1]
Stowell, Lord, i. 208
Stuart—­, British Minister at Washington: 
  report of new Northern levies of men, ii. 30;
  on recognition, 30 and note[3];
  views on British policy, 30 note[3];
  attitude to intervention and recognition, 36, 37, 66 note[3];
  report of Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation, 37, 98;
  suggestion of armistice, 47;
  account of Federal “reprisals,” 66 note[3];
  on servile insurrection, 97;
  describes Emancipation proclamation as a brutum fulmen, 101
  Otherwise mentioned, ii. 25, 26, 66 note[3], 70, 100,
    101 note[1]
Sturge, Joseph, A Visit to the United States in 1841, cited, i. 29
Sumner, Charles, i. 79, 80;
  Brooks’ attack on, 33, 80;
  hope of, for appointment as Minister to England, 55 and note[2];
  views on annexation of Canada, 55;
  in Trent affair, 231, 232, 234 note[3];
  attitude to Southern Ports Bill, 248 and note[3];
  advocacy of abolition, ii. 81, 90;
  conversations with Lincoln on abolition, 82, 86;
  attitude to Privateering Bill, 123, 124;
  otherwise mentioned, i. 49 note, 83, 130 note[1], 220;
  ii. 80, 132, 184, 247, 262, 280
Sumter, Fort, fall of, i. 63, 73, 74, 83, 120, 172, 173;
  Seward’s policy on reinforcement of, 118
Sutherland, Rev. Dr., prayer of in American Senate, i. 233 note