]
[Footnote 1110: Mason, _Mason_, p. 449.]
[Footnote 1111: Sept. 4, 1863. The _Times_ was now printing American
correspondence sharply in contrast to that which preceded Gettysburg
when the exhaustion and financial difficulties of the North were dilated
upon. Now, letters from Chicago, dated August 30, declared that, to the
writer's astonishment, the West gave every evidence that the war had
fostered rather than checked, prosperity. (Sept. 15, 1863.).]
[Footnote 1112: Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, Sept. 14 and 15, 1863.
Slidell to Mason, Sept. 16, 1863.]
[Footnote 1113: McRea wrote to Hotze, September 17, 1863, that in his
opinion Slidell and Hotze were the only Southern agents of value
diplomatically in Europe (Hotze Correspondence). He thought all others
would soon be recalled. Slidell, himself, even in his letter to Mason,
had the questionable taste of drawing a rosy picture of his own and his
family's intimate social intercourse with the Emperor and the Empress.]
[Footnote 1114: Sept. 23, 1863.]
[Footnote 1115: e.g., _Manchester Guardian_, Sept. 23, 1863, quoted in
_The Index_, Sept. 24, p. 343.]
[Footnote 1116: Mason's _Mason_, p. 456.]
[Footnote 1117: Russell Papers. To Russell, Oct. 26, 1863.]
[Footnote 1118: _Ibid._, Lyons wrote after receiving a copy of a
despatch sent by Russell to Grey, in France, dated October 10, 1863.
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