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5. Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham (New York, 1999), p. 676.
6. H. C. Allen, Great Britain and the United States (New York, 1955), p. 158.
7. Frederick W. Seward (ed.), Seward at Washington (New York, 1891), p. 372.
8. Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 113.
9. H. F. Bell, Lord Palmerston, 2 vols. (London, 1936), vol. 2, p. 253. Her mother had been the great Lady Melbourne, a political hostess whose influence in the 1780s was second only to the Duchess of Devonshire’s.
10. John Prest, Lord John Russell (London, 1972), p. 134. “You give great offence to your followers,” his exasperated brother, the Duke of Bedford, once complained, “by not being courteous to them, by treating them superciliously or de haut en bas, by not listening … to their solicitations, remonstrances, or whatever it may be.… ”
11. Ibid., p. 349.
12. Beverly Wilson Palmer (ed.), The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner, 2 vols. (Boston, 1990), vol. 1, p. 24, Sumner to Duchess of Argyll, May 22, 1860.
13. Seward (ed.), Seward at Washington, p. 390.
14. Sarah Agnes Wallace and Frances Elma Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, 1857–1865, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1948, 1949), vol. 1, p. 545, May 21, 1859.
15. Ibid., p. 558, June 23, 1859.
16. Ibid., p. 504, February 8, 1859.
17. K. Theodore Hoppen, The Mid-Victorian Generation (Oxford, 1998), p. 202.
18. James Matlack Scovel, “The Great Free Trader by His Own Fire Side,” Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine (1893), p. 129.
19. Seward (ed.), Seward at Washington, p. 380. Deborah Logan (ed.), The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau, 5 vols. (London, 2007), vol. 4, p. 180, Martineau to Henry Reeve, July 6, 1859. Seward also told Harriet Martineau that he believed Sumner’s ailments were mostly psychological.
20. Wilbur Devereux Jones, The American Problem in British Diplomacy, 1841–1861 (London, 1974), p. 200.
21. Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanties: http://www.mfh.org/special-projects/shwlp/site/honorees/remond.html, Sarah Parker Remond to Abby Kelly Foster, September 1858. Sibyl Ventress Brownlee, “Out of the Abundance of the Heart: Sarah Ann Parker Remond’s Quest for Freedom,” Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts, 1997, p. 119.
22. Wallace and Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, 1857–1865, vol. 1, p. 608, November 22, 1859.
23. Ibid., p. 614, December 10, 1859.
24. Ibid., p. 616, December 16, 1859.
25. Brownlee, “Out of the Abundance of the Heart,” p. 136.
26. David Herbert Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (New York, 1961), p. 348.
27. Taylor, William Henry Seward, p. 114.
28. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes (eds.), Private and Confidential: Letters from British Ministers in Washington to the Foreign Secretaries (Selinsgrove, Pa., 1993), p. 223, Lord Lyons to Lord Russell, December 6, 1859.
29. Mason’s report was published in June 1860.
30. Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War (New York, 1905), p. 98.
31. Rose Greenhow, My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington (London, 1863), p. 192.
32. Martin Duberman, Charles Francis Adams (New York, 1961), p. 213.
33. Greenhow, My Imprisonment, p. 192.
34. Ernest Samuels (ed.), Henry Adams: Selected Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), p. 21, Henry Adams to Abigail Adams, February 13, 1860.
35. Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, p. 21.
36. Charles Francis Adams would have argued back that he had not been a slouch during his adulthood: he served in the Massachusetts state legislature for five years, and was twice an unsuccessful candidate for vice president in 1848 and 1872.
37. San Juan Island remained under joint military occupation for the next twelve years. Then, after Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Washington, the San Juan question was referred to Kaiser Wilhelm I. He established a three-man arbitration commission, which studied the issue