. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . more thana year.* The South itself thus helped the Xorth by its want ofgrasp of the situation. The North, in the formers view, drivenby Eiuropean command that cotton must not be interferedwith, was to yield quickly to the Southern demands. TheSouth did not recognize that, in the rapidly developing events,to hesitate was to lose all. The quick grip of the navy was tobe the Unions salvation. Though Englands weekly consump-tion of cotton was reduced in a year from fifty thousand totwenty thousand bales of cotton, the people of Lancash
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . more thana year.* The South itself thus helped the Xorth by its want ofgrasp of the situation. The North, in the formers view, drivenby Eiuropean command that cotton must not be interferedwith, was to yield quickly to the Southern demands. TheSouth did not recognize that, in the rapidly developing events,to hesitate was to lose all. The quick grip of the navy was tobe the Unions salvation. Though Englands weekly consump-tion of cotton was reduced in a year from fifty thousand totwenty thousand bales of cotton, the people of Lancashire stoodby the North. Kecognition of the Confederacy did not South attempted a change of policy, but the chance toexploit its cotton was gone. At the basis of the Souths belief in the quick ending ofthe war, was the profound conviction of most of the Southernleaders that Europes deprivation of cotton would quicklybring European intervention. Senator James H. Hammond, * M. L. Avary. Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens. His Diary,etc., 1910. [301. 911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. MESSENGERS FROM THE CZAR OF RUSSIA Here again the reader is introduced to some guests of the Nortli—the officers of one of tlie littk fleet that put into the Hudson andpaid visits along the coast. It was not the Russian people at large who showed any friendliness to the United States during the CivilAVar; they knew little, cared less, and were not aflfected by the results of the conflict more than if it had been waged between twosavage tribes in the heart of Africa. It was the Czar, for reasons of state or for his own purposes—which are much the same thing—who made the friendly overtures. Still smarting from the crushing disaster of the Crimea, where England, France, and Sardinia hadcombined to aid the hated Turk in keeping the Russians from the Bosphorus and the Mediterranean, the Czar would have given agreat deal to have seen the Trent affair open hostilities between America and the mother
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