85.] [Footnote 191: C.F.Adams, _Charles Francis Adams_, p.172.In preparing a larger life of his father, never printed, the son later came to a different opinion, crediting Russell with foresight in hastening the Proclamation to avoid possible embarrassment with Adams on his arrival.
The quotation from the printed "Life" well summarizes, however, current American opinion.] [Footnote 192: _U.S.Documents_, Ser.No.347, Doc.

183, p.

6.] [Footnote 193: The United States Supreme Court in 1862, decided that Lincoln's blockade proclamation of April 19, 1861, was "itself official and conclusive evidence ...

that a state of war existed." (Moore, Int.
Law Digest, I, p.

190.)] [Footnote 194: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, I, p.16.Henry Adams to C.F.Adams, Jnr.] [Footnote 195: Rhodes, _History of the United States_, III, p.