Here and there meetings were hurriedly called to protest against recognition[122].

This fear was unfounded.

Neither in London nor at Washington was there any official inclination to hasten recognition.

Lyons had held up to Seward the logic of such action, if British trade were illegally interfered with.

By April 9 Lyons was aware that the so-called Radical Party in the Cabinet would probably have its way, that conciliation would no longer be attempted, and that a coercive policy toward the South was soon to follow.