This study reverses the roles.]
[Footnote 776: Russell Papers. Also see _ante_ p. 41. Stuart to Lyons.
The letter to Russell was of exactly the same tenor.]
[Footnote 777: Palmerston MS. Russell to Palmerston, Oct. 6, 1862.
Lyons' departure had been altered from October n to October 25.]
[Footnote 778: Morley, _Gladstone_, II, p. 79. Morley calls this
utterance a great error which was long to embarrass Gladstone, who
himself later so characterized it.]
[Footnote 779: Adams, _A Crisis in Downing Street_, p. 402.]
[Footnote 780: Bright to Sumner, October 10, 1862. Mass. Hist. Soc.
_Proceedings_, XLVI, p. 108. Bright was wholly in the dark as to a
Ministerial project. Much of this letter is devoted to the emancipation
proclamation which did not at first greatly appeal to Bright as a
wise measure.]
[Footnote 781: The _Times_, October 9 and 10, while surprised that
Gladstone and not Palmerston, was the spokesman, accepted the speech as
equivalent to a governmental pronouncement. Then the _Times_ makes no
further comment of moment until November 13. The _Morning Post_
(regarded as Palmerston's organ) reported the speech in full on October
9, but did not comment editorially until October 13, and then with much
laudation of Gladstone's northern tour but _with no mention whatever_ of
his utterances on America.
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