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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 7: (search)
e the contest. Lincoln's view of the war as a riot. Seward's letter to the European Governments. Early action of England and France with respect to the war. Mr. Gregory's letter to the London times. Northern conceit about the war. prophecies of Northern journals. a three months war. Ellsworth and Billy Wilson. martial raither of the belligerents. The British House of Commons had deemed it necessary to adjourn the discussion of American affairs by the indefinite postponement of Mr. Gregory's notice of a motion on the subject. That gentleman had sought to defend his motion for the recognition of the Southern Confederacy in a letter in the London The successful issue of Northern policy, against which the South had protested; and as the vindication of the right of a people to assert their independence. Mr. Gregory concluded with the strong conviction that the interests of France and England were identical in the American question, and that the recognition by these two great
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 11: (search)
chmond orators said. Seward's correspondence with the British Government. his collapse. the last resort of demagogueism. disappointment of the Confederates in the termination of the Trent affair. Earl Russell's declaration in Parliament. Mr. Gregory's reply. the treaty of Paris and the Federal blockade In the beginning of the war, General Winfield Scott had been entitled in Northern newspapers the Greatest Captain of the Age. After the disaster of Manassas the same newspapers deridednsul at Charleston, said that it was not so; and that authentic accounts and letters of merchants showed that any ships, leaving for the South, could be insured by a premium of seven and a half to fifteen per cent. But in the House of Commons, Mr. Gregory disputed the minister's statement, mentioned the evidence we have referred to, and asserted that England's non-observation of the Treaty of Paris was a deception for the Confederate States, and an ambuscade for the interests of commerce throug