27, 1863. I have not dwelt upon
Beecher's tour of England and Scotland in 1863, because its influence in
"winning England" seems to me absurdly over-estimated. He was a gifted
public orator and knew how to "handle" his audiences, but the majority
in each audience was friendly to him, and there was no such "crisis of
opinion" in 1863 as has frequently been stated in order to exalt
Beecher's services.]
[Footnote 1124: Dodd, _Jefferson Davis_, p. 319. The words are Dodd's.]
[Footnote 1125: State Department, Eng., Vol. 84, No. 557. Adams to
Seward, Dec. 17, 1863.]
[Footnote 1126: Hotze Correspondence. McHenry to Hotze, Dec. 1, 1863.]
[Footnote 1127: McHenry, _The Cotton Trade_, London, 1863. The preface
in the form of a long letter to W.H. Gregory is dated August 31, 1863.
For a comprehensive note on McHenry see C.F. Adams in Mass. Hist. Soc.
_Proceedings_, March, 1914, Vol. XLVII, 279 _seq_.]
[Footnote 1128: Mason Papers.]
CHAPTER XV
THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION
Northern friends in England were early active in organizing public
meetings and after the second emancipation proclamation of January 1,
1863, these became both numerous and notable. Southern friends,
confident in the ultimate success of the Confederacy and equally
confident that they had with them the great bulk of upper-class opinion
in England, at first thought it unnecessary to be active in public
expressions aside from such as were made through the newspapers.
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