Of this period in 1862, Rhodes (IV, 78) writes that "the most significant and touching feature of the situation was that the cotton operative population was frankly on the side of the North." Lutz, _Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten waehrend des Sezessionskrieges_, pp.

49-53, makes an interesting analysis of the German press, showing it also determined in its attitude by factional political idealisms in Germany.] [Footnote 1355: Palmerston MS., Aug.

24, 1862.] [Footnote 1356: Aug.

30, 1862.] [Footnote 1357: October, 1862.

"The Confederate Struggle and Recognition."] [Footnote 1358: Nov.