Chapter I: Introduction: 7

CHAPTER.

I. Relations with England 11

II. English Sympathy for the Confederacy 21

III. The Question of Confederate Independence 31

IV. The Queen’s Neutrality Proclamation 37

V. English Negotiations with the Insurgents 53

VI. Mr. Seward’s Circular to the Governors of the Northern
States 61

VII. The First Efforts of the Confederates for Recognition
Abroad 69

VIII. James Murray Mason and John Slidell. The Nature
and Merits of Their Mission 79

IX. The Departure of the Commissioners for Europe 91

X. The Seizure 97

XI. The Effect in America 117

XII. The Effect in England 137

XIII. The British Demand 163

XIV. Consideration of the British Demand in America 175

XV. Views of Other European Nations Concerning the
Trent Case 195

XVI. The Answer of the Federal Government 211

XVII. The Surrender of Mason and Slidell 225

XVIII. Earl Russell’s View of the American Position 239

XIX. International Law in the Trent Case 247

XX. Reflections on the Course of the British Government 269