" On June, 20 Lindsay gave this notice
of postponement, and no parliamentary comment was made[652]. It was a
moment of extreme depression for the Confederate agents in Europe.
Slidell, yielding to Mason's pleas, gave up his idea of demanding
recognition and wrote:
"The position of our representatives in Europe is painful and
almost humiliating; it might be tolerated if they could be
consoled by the reflection that their presence was in any way
advantageous to their cause but I am disposed to believe that
we would have done better to withdraw after our first
interview with Russell and Thouvenel[653]."
[Illustration: PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH (_From a photograph by Elliott &
Fry, Ltd._)]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 580: _U.S. Messages and Documents, 1862-63_, Pt. I, p. 41.]
[Footnote 581: F.O., Am., Vol. 826. Nos. 154 and 155. March 3, 1862.]
[Footnote 582: F.O., France, Vol. 1435. No. 362. Cowley to Russell,
March 18, 1862.]
[Footnote 583: _U.S. Messages and Documents, 1862-63_, Pt. I, p. 54.
Adams to Seward, March 27, 1862.]
[Footnote 584: _Ibid._, p. 65.]
[Footnote 585: Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell. Private. April 8,
1862.]
[Footnote 586: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 587: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, I, 123. To his son, April 4,
1862.
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