Dayton said: "Our prospects are dark enough.

All the monarchs and aristocracies are against us; all the cotton and commercial interests are against us.

Emperor Louis Napoleon is a sphinx, but he would like to help to acknowledge the Southern Confederacy.

If he does so Belgium and other powers will join him; they will break the blockade; they will supply the Confederates with arms and then we must fight Europe as well as the Southern States.

Our only real friends are men like John Bright, and those who believe that we are fighting for freedom as well as for our National Union.