81/109 "... while our people are starving, our commerce interrupted, our industry paralysed, our Ministry have no plan, no idea, no intention to do anything but fold their hands, talk of strict neutrality, spare the excited feelings of the North, and wait, like Mr.Micawber, for something to turn up."] [Footnote 800: Russell Papers. To Russell.] [Footnote 801: _Ibid._, To Russell, Oct. 24, 1862.] [Footnote 802: Palmerston MS. |