63/109 When issued on September 22, Stuart found no "humanity" in it. "It is cold, vindictive and entirely political."] [Footnote 750: Palmerston MS. 24, 1862.] [Footnote 751: The ignorance of other Cabinet members is shown by a letter from Argyll to Gladstone, September 2, 1862, stating as if an accepted conclusion, that there should be no interference and that the war should be allowed to reach its "natural issue" (Gladstone Papers).] [Footnote 752: Russell Papers. |