[Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams]@TWC D-Link bookGreat Britain and the American Civil War CHAPTER XVI 37/61
(_The Civil War in America_, London, 1866.) The list may be regarded as an analysis of the more important, attracting the attention of _The Liberator_ and of Adams.] [Footnote 1204: At a banquet given to Thompson in 1863 he was declared by Bright to have been the "real liberator of the slaves in the English colonies," and by P.A.Taylor as, by his courage "when social obloquy and personal danger had to be incurred for the truth's sake," having rendered great services "to the cause of Abolition in America."] [Footnote 1205: _The Liberator_, Jan.
15, 1864.
Letter to James Buffum, of Lynn, Dec.
10, 1863.] [Footnote 1206: Goldwin Smith's pamphlet: "The Civil War in America: An Address read at the last meeting of the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society" (held on January 26, 1866), pays especial tribute to Thomas Bayley Potter, M.P., stating "you boldly allied yourself with the working-men in forming this association." Smith gives a five-page list of other leading members, among whom, in addition to some Northern friends already named, are to be noted Thomas Hughes, Duncan McLaren, John Stuart Mill.
There are eleven noted "Professors," among them Cairnes, Thorold Rogers, and Fawcett.
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