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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 24: the called session of Congress.--foreign relations.--benevolent organizations.--the opposing armies. (search)
itical objects of the conspirators, procured in their behalf the powerful assistance of a Proclamation of Neutrality by the Queen, May 13, 1861. by which a Confederate Government, as existing, was acknowledged, and belligerent rights were accorded to the insurgents. A motion, with the view of recognizing the independence of the so-called Confederate States, was made in Parliament by Mr. Gregory, at the beginning of May, and, in reply to a question from him on the 6th of that month, Lord John Russell, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, gave the first authoritative statement of the position which the Government intended to take. The Attorney and Solicitor-General and the Queen's Advocate and the Government, he said, have come to the opinion that the Southern Confederacy of America, according to those principles which seem to them to be just principles, must be treated as a belligerent. Following the Queen's Proclamation, was a debate on the subject of blockades and privateering, in