The publicity committee of this society during three years had issued and circulated "upwards of four hundred thousand books, pamphlets, and tracts." Here, as previously, the activities of Americans in England are not included.

Thus George Francis Train, correspondent of the _New York Herald_, made twenty-three speeches between January, 1861, and March, 1862.

("Union Speeches in England.")] [Footnote 1207: For text of Lincoln's pardon see Trevelyan, _Bright_, p.
296.

Lincoln gave the pardon "especially as a public mark of the esteem held by the United States of America for the high character and steady friendship of the said John Bright...." The names of leading friends of the South have been given in Chapter XV.] [Footnote 1208: This was a commonplace of American writing at the time and long after.

A Rev.C.B.Boynton published a book devoted to the thesis that England and France had united in a "policy" of repressing the development of America and Russia (_English and French Neutrality and the Anglo-French Alliance in their relations to the United States and Russia_, Cincinnati, C.F.Vest & Co., 1864).