A World on Fire_ Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman [455]
17. Sarah Agnes Wallace and Frances Elma Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, 1857–1865, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1948, 1949), vol. 1, pp. 504–5, February 8, 1859.
18. Newton (ed.), Lord Lyons, vol. 1, p. 14, Lord Lyons to Lord Malmesbury, May 29, 1859.
19. Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation (London, 1842; Penguin Classics, 2000), p. 129.
20. Edward Dicey, Spectator of America, ed. Herbert Mitgang (Athens, Ga., 1971), p. 62.
21. Ibid., p. 65.
22. Michael Burlingame (ed.), Lincoln’s Journalist: John Hay’s Anonymous Writings for the Press, 1860–1864 (Carbondale, Ill., 1998), p. 50.
23. William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South, ed. Eugene H. Berwanger (New York, 1988), p. 41, March 26, 1861.
24. Clay-Copton and Sterling, A Belle of the Fifties, p. 139.
25. Mrs. Clay recalled that Lyons said, “Ah, Madam! do you remember what Uncle Toby said to his nephew when he informed him of his intended marriage?” She, presumably not having read Tristram Shandy, had no idea what was coming next. “Then, without waiting for my assent, he added, ‘Alas! alas! quoth my Uncle Toby, you will never sleep slantindicularly in your bed [any] more!’ ” Ibid.
26. Hudson Strode (ed.), Private Letters of Jefferson Davis (New York, 1966), p. 105, Varina Davis to Jefferson Davis, April 10, 1859.
27. Wilbur Devereux Jones, The American Problem in British Diplomacy, 1841–1861 (London, 1974), p. 172.
28. Barnes and Barnes (eds.), Private and Confidential, p. 214, Lyons to Lord Malmesbury, June 21, 1859.
29. Newton (ed.), Lord Lyons, vol. 1, p. 14, Lord Lyons to Lord Malmesbury, May 30, 1859.
30. James O’Donald Mays, Mr. Hawthorne Goes to England (Ringwood, 1983), pp. 156–58.
PART I: COTTON IS KING
Chapter 1: The Uneasy Cousins
1. Wilbur Devereux Jones, The American Problem in British Diplomacy, 1841–1861 (London, 1974), p. 169, Lord Derby to Lord Malmesbury, October 11, 1858.
2. Kenneth Bourne, The Foreign Policy of Victorian England, 1830–1902 (Oxford, 1970), p. 334, Lord Palmerston to Lord Clarendon, December 31, 1857.
3. In 1807, HMS Leopard was prowling off the coast of Virginia when it came across USS Chesapeake. The Leopard fired on the Chesapeake after the vessel refused to heave to, killing three American sailors and wounding a further eighteen. Only one deserter was found.
4. Paul Ford Leicester (ed.), The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 1807–1815, vol. 9 (London, 1898), p. 366, Jefferson to William Duane, August 4, 1812.
5. Thomas Low Nichols, Forty Years of American Life, 2 vols. (London, 1864), vol. 1, p. 409.
6. Jasper Ridley, Palmerston (New York, 1971), pp. 270–74, Palmerston to Russell, January 19, 1841.
7. Evelyn Ashley, The Life and Correspondence of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, 2 vols. (London, 1879), vol. 1, p. 408, Palmerston to H. S. Fox, February 9, 1841.
8. The raid had taken place in 1837. The USS Caroline was carrying supplies to pro-American Canadian insurgents. Tired of troublemakers fostering rebellion south of the border, a group of armed men seized the Caroline, killing an American sailor in the process, and sent it over Niagara Falls. While hogging his barstool, McLeod boasted that he was the killer. In truth, he was a pathetic fantasist.
9. James Chambers, Palmerston, the People’s Darling (London, 2004), p. 199.
10. Ridley, Palmerston, p. 273.
11. The border dispute over New Brunswick and Maine was settled by British minister Lord Ashburton and U.S. secretary of state Daniel Webster.
12. H. C. Allen, Great Britain and the United States (New York, 1955), p. 136.
13. Ibid., p. 123.
14. Betty Fladeland, Men and Brothers (Champaign, Ill., 1972), p. 351.
15. Annie Heloise Abel and Frank J. Klingberg (eds.), A Sidelight on Anglo-American Relations, 1839–1858 (Lancaster, Pa., 1927), p. 40.
16. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815–1897 (New York, 1898), pp. 71–92.
17. Jean Fagan Yellin, “Harriet Jacobs and the Transatlantic