_Ibid._, Vol.849.No.16.To Russell, May 10, 1862.] [Footnote 694: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, pp.

214-18.] [Footnote 695: Arnold, _Cotton Famine_, p.

228, quotes a song in the "improvised schoolrooms" of Ashton where operatives were being given a leisure-time education.

One verse was: "Our mules and looms have now ceased work, the Yankees are the cause.

But we will let them fight it out and stand by English laws; No recognizing shall take place, until the war is o'er; Our wants are now attended to, we cannot ask for more." ] [Footnote 696: Hansard, 3rd.Ser., CLXVII, p.