(Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, p.

347.)] [Footnote 1333: April 27, 1861.] [Footnote 1334: Bunch wrote to Russell, May 15, 1861, that the war in America was the "natural result of the much vaunted system of government of the United States"; it had "crumbled to pieces," and this result had long been evident to the public mind of Europe.

(F.O., Am., Vol.
780, No.

58.)] [Footnote 1335: State Department, Eng., Vol.

77, No.9.Adams to Seward, June 21, 1861.] [Footnote 1336: I have made an effort to identify writers in _Blackwood's_, but am informed by the editors that it is impossible to do this for the period before 1870, old correspondence having been destroyed.] [Footnote 1337: July, 1861.] [Footnote 1338: The _Atlantic Monthly_ for November, 1861, takes up the question, denying that democracy is in any sense "on trial" in America, so far as the permanence of American institutions is concerned.