224/342 95; effect of, on Confederate agents, i. 288 Southern Ports Bill, attitude to, i. 247 _note_[2], 248 _note_[3], 249; views of, on recognition, 285-6; belief of, in ultimate Southern success, 298; and isolated French offer of mediation, ii. 75; proposes Russo-French mediation, 76 _note_[1]; precautions of, during Lee's northern advance, 176 _note_[2] Bancroft quoted on, i. |