68/69 No exact date is given but the context shows it to have been in October, 1861.)] [Footnote 395: Ashley, _Palmerston_, II, 218-19. On October 30, Russell wrote to Gladstone expressing himself as worried about cotton but stating that the North was about to try to take New Orleans and thus release cotton. (Gladstone Papers).] [Footnote 396: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.219.Bancroft cites also a letter from Seward to his wife showing that he appreciated thoroughly the probability of a foreign war if France should press on in the line taken.] [Footnote 397: F.O., America, Vol.773.No.623.Confidential. 4, 1861.] [Footnote 398: _Ibid._, No.634.Confidential.Lyons to Russell, Nov. |