67/69 7, Lyons wrote to Head, "If we can get through the winter and spring without American cotton, and keep the peace, we shall attain a great object." (Lyons Papers.)] [Footnote 390: F.O., America, 772.No.585.Lyons to Russell, Oct. 21, 1861.] [Footnote 391: _Ibid._, Vol.773.No.606.Lyons to Russell. 194.] [Footnote 394: "The Americans certainly seem inclined to pick a quarrel with us; but I doubt their going far enough even to oblige us to recognize the Southern States. A step further would enable us to open the Southern ports, but a war would nevertheless be a great calamity." (Maxwell, _Clarendon_, II, 245. |