Sideman, Belle Becker and Lillian Friedman, eds. Europe Looks at the Civil War. New York: Orion Press, 1960.

Victor Hugo, death of John Brown, George Sand, 5-9 Count Agénor de Gasparin, American question at London and Paris, cotton, Lincoln, social revolution, 10-13 William Makepeace Thackeray, civil war, 16 Revolution in America, 17 Divided family, 17-18 Marquess of Lothian defends right of secession, British aristocracy, defends slavery, 21-24 Elysèe Reclus. Corrupting influences of slavery, 24-27 Belgian press, southern secession, 29 Alexander J. Beresford-Hope, relieves southern states of guilt about slavery, bad effects of universal suffrage, Lincoln nomination, northern war of domination, slaves source of strength to Confederates, north cannot conquer the South, 30-36 Comments on cotton, 36-37 Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, Russian minister, slavery, Lincoln, Irish, Germans, Seward, 40-43 Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, Bull Run, 43-45 Maurice Sand, interview with Lincoln, 57-58 Hatred and atrocity stories, slaveholders, 58-61 Charles Darwin, English opinion favors the North, cotton, doubts about northern cause, 62-63 Samuel Phillips Day, Confederacy, slavery, northern goal of subjugation, 64-66 Baron de Schlenitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prussia, friendship with United States, and hopes for peace, 67-68 Command offered to Garibaldi, 68-73 Prince Gortchakov, Russian minister of foreign affairs, strength of unity and the American Union, 74-75 Prince Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, Seward, 76-77 Prince Napoleon, Joseph Johnston, Beauregard, little mention of slavery, 77-78 Fredericka Bremer, favors the North, 78-80 Eugène Forcade, French wounded by troubles of American government, 80 Eugène Forcade, Union weakness, short term enlistments, lack of discipline, possible use of black soldiers, offer of a commission to Garibaldi, 82 Richard Cobden, English government will not recognize the Confederacy, but pessimistic about northern prospects, 90-92 Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Speech, September 25, 1861, north-south separation inevitable, 92- 94 Anthony Trollope, unlikely American war, much in common with the Americans, 94-96 Belgian press—American war slowing commercial activity, Prussian sympathy for the Union, 96-97 Letters of King Leopold to Queen Victoria, not sympathetic to Lincoln, favors separate American nations, 98-99 George Eliot, American war and cotton weavers, 99-100 Trent affair, newspaper comments, John Bright, Belgian newspaper, 100-106 Charles Darwin on the Trent affair, 106-7 Robert Browning, support for the North, slavery, Lincoln, `108-110

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Marx and Engels on the Trent affair, 110-11 John Bright, speech on the Trent affair, 112-16 John Stuart Mill, England and the north, 117-18 Palmerston to Queen Victoria, southern sympathies, neutrality, Trent affair, 119-20 Foreign immigration and enlistment, Irish, Germans, Homestead Act, France, Belgium, 120-28 John Bright, aristocracy in English government hostile to American greatness, Cobden, 129-30 George Sand, American equality and democracy, 131-32 George Sand, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabinet, 132-33 Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton, Union supporter, minority in Parliament, distress in cotton districts, French favor diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy, 137-40 John Rushkin, Americans deserve to fight and suffer, 141-42 Fredricka Bremer, deplores war in America, 142-43 Monsignor Dupanloup, Bishop of Orlèans, slavery, Catholic church, 143-45 Prince Army of the Potomac, Peninsula campaign, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, 145-48 Butler woman order, Lord Palmerston, Charles Francis Adams, 148-50 Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 154-55 Comte de Paris, delays in American war, thinks Confederate independence is more impossible than restoration of the Union, 155-57 Marx and Engels, Lincoln, 158-60 French in Mexico, 162-63 Edouard Laboulaye, intervention, French interests, cotton, 163-66 Alfred de Vigny, northern cruelty in New Orleans, 167-68 Spanish editorial, September 1862, American society constituted without God, ridicules America as a model republic, 173-74 John Russell, Palmerston, possible intervention in American war, 174-79 Prosper Mérimée, Confederate Revolution, refers to northerners as fools, 180 Peter Sinclair, cotton burning in America, Lancashire sufferers, Confederates, defends Federal government, Liverpool and slave power, 180-83 Vice Chancellor Prince Gortchakov, Russian worry about Union chances, still opposes intervention, 184-85 William Gladstone, speech at Newcastle, John Russell, denies being a southern sympathizer, 185-86 John Bright attacks Gladstone’s Newcastle speech, Charles Sumner, 187-89 Karl Marx on Lincoln, 190-91 Times of London on Emancipation Proclamation, 192 Baron de Stoeckl, Russian minister on Monitor, ironclad ships, 192-93 Dostoevsky, conflict in America final contest over slavery, Union losses, French mediation proposals, 193-97 Letter from Working Men of Manchester to Lincoln, December 31, 1862, end slavery, 198-201 Fredrika Bremer. Fredericksburg. American war, Unitarians, 201-2 Russian editorial on Emancipation Proclamation, 203-6 Italian liberals and Emancipation Proclamation, Garibaldi, 206 Times of London, emancipation, Bible, 207 Alphonse de Lamartine. Slavery, jealousy of the South the cause of the war, blacks prefer slavery to free labor, favors compensated emancipation but slavery is legal, 208-9 Napoleon III, effect of war on French economy, 210

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French suffering from the blockade, cotton workers, 211-13 English thanks to American relief committee, 214-16 Song of the unemployed cotton workers, 216-17 John Rushkin, religious fanaticism and northern war, pretext of fighting against slavery, 217-18 Appeal of the Protestant Pastors of France, opposes Protestant Confederation to propagate slavery, 219-20 Richard Cobden to Charles Sumner, Emancipation Proclamation, 220-23 Charles Darwin to Asa Gray, Confederate cause and slavery, criticizes Times of London, 224 John Bright to John Greenleaf Whittier, funds raised for Lancashire unemployed, 225-26 Canon de Haerne, Belgium, school open to black people in the South, cotton, ironclads, Lincoln, 226-30 John Bright’s speech to trade Unions, March 1863. American war, freedom, 230-32 Benjamin Disraeli, a different America, 233 London Confederate States bank, relief of southern prisoners of war, 235-37 John Bright, speech, June 30, 1863, slavery and children, 243-44 Baron de Stoeckl, diplomatic corps, republican form of government, 244-46 Thomas Carlyle, denies disliking blacks, whites and blacks will never be equals, 253-54 Petition in England and Ireland for cessation of hostilities in American War, future of republican government, 254-56 Baron de Stoeckl, 1864, Confederates threatening to enter Washington, 256-57 Prosper Mérimée, siege of Charleston, 257 Thomas H. Huxley, heart with South, head with North, no sympathy with blacks, 258-59 Belgian press, Overland campaign, 260 Twelve French citizens to John Slidell, against slavery, 260-62 Duveiger de Hauranne, northern hypocrisy, Irish, blacks slavery, 262-63 Marx, Lincoln and election of 1864, 264 Belgian press, reelection of Lincoln, 265 Democratic party of Barcelona congratulates Lincoln on his reelection, 266-67 Baron de Stoeckl notes Americans have confidence they have the best government on earth, 267 Prosper Mérimée, conquest of the South will bring trouble for the North, Lincoln’s task, 268-69 Lord Russell to Mason, Slidell and Mann, no warrant for shipbuilding, 269-71 Bishop of Orleans, Monsignor Dupanloop on Lincoln’s second inaugural, 272-73 William Howard Russell, knew North would win the war, 273-74 Spain hails democratic victories, 274-75 Marquis de Chambrun, many French diplomats have been foolish, he is rejoicing in northern success, fall of Richmond, General Weitzel, Lincoln, 275-78 Prince Chlodwig von Hohenlohe-Schillingfurst, effects of American Civil War, 278-79 Eugène Pelletan, Americans defended liberty during their war, 280-81 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lee’s surrender, 282 Giuseppe Manzzini on northern victory, 282-83 Celebration of northern victory at American legation in Brussels, world moved by northern victory, 283-85 Comte Charles de Montalembert, liberal Catholic party. Americans have waged war and not descended into dictatorship, 285-88 Death of Lincoln, Victor Hugo, Queen Victoria, Eugène Pelletan, 289-91 Recollections of Lincoln, Alphonse Joualt, August Laugel, 292-93

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Lincoln assassination, John Bright, Tory newspaper, Prince Gortchakov, Polish refugees in Switzerland, Bismark, Times of London, Italian Society of United Mechanics at Turin, Karl Marx, Oscar de Lafayette, Resolution from Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, University of Perguia, Tom Taylor in Punch, Prosper Mérimée, Henrik Ibsen, Descendents of Slaves, London, 294-306 End of slavery, Victor Hugo, 306-7

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