Potts.] 112 [April 19, 



vice to the rebel agents. Having examined a large number of them, we 

 must give Mr. Moran credit for great ingenuity. 



Liverpool, which owed its early rise and progress to the slave trade, 

 was in a great variety of ways the stronghold of Southern sympathy. An 

 instance is given in a letter of Mr. Seward to Charles Francis Adams in 

 " The Diplomatic Correspondence." 



"May 1, 1862. 



" Sir : — Mr. Dudley our vigilant consul at Liverpool, writes that the 

 subscription which was gotten up in that place to aid the insurrection in 

 this country mounted up to £10,000 sterling, and that all that large sum 

 of money has been invested in arms and munitions of war. He also states 

 that a second subscription for the same purpose is now being filled up in 

 the same place. 



" I can hardly doubt that he has brought these facts to. your notice and 

 that you have called the attention of her Majesty's government to them." 



The Consul received numerous threatening letters warning him unless 

 he ceased his opposition to those who gave substantial assistance to the 

 Confederate government, his life would be taken, and if lound in certain 

 designated spots he would be shot on sight. These threats had little 

 effect on his determination to do his duty. It is pleasant to meet with an 

 occasional friend of the Union, whose sympathy an American at such a 

 crisis needed at this advanced outpost in what may truly be called the 

 enemy's country. John Bright was such a one, whose letters of heartfelt 

 sympathy we print below.* On one occasion we meet with the letter of 

 an undecided friend from an anonymous source, who seems ashamed of 



* The Eaglisli friends of tlie Union in Liverpool were few, but hearty and practical in 

 their sympathy. Tliey deserve to be held in grateful remembrance. First we would 

 mention the Vice-Couhul of the United States, Mr. Henry Wilding, au able and efficient - 

 officer, himself an Englishman. He died a few years since. Charles Edward Rawlins, 

 Ex-President of the Chamber of Commerce ; Robert Trimble ; James Spence, elsewhere 

 mentioned in this article ; CJharles Wilson; William Inman, of the Inmau Line Steam- 

 ship Company ; William Crossiield ; Samuel Bulley ; Thomas Avison, and the firm ot 

 Jevous & Ryley (Wm. A. Jevons, Thomas C. Ryley). 



The American merchants who formexl the Liverpool colony that were steadfast in their 

 devotion to their country were Daniel James (of Phelps.. Dodge & Co.), George Warren 

 (fo.under of the Warren Steamship Company), Stephen B. Guion (head of the Guion 

 Line), B. F. Babcock, William T. Whitlimoreaud Henry Nash. 



The Americans were in some sense in a state of siege, surrounded by their enemies. 

 These earnest men brought private news of the success of the Union arms to the Consul 

 and distributed correct information among the friends of the United States, sometimes 

 in the middle of the night ; otherwise all they would have known for at least two weeks 

 were garbled telegrams and false reports. Among the English, the family of Mr. Robert 

 Trimble, above mentioned, made with their own hands and the help of their friends 

 eight hundred garments for the Irecdmeii of the South. The determination of these 

 few men, headed by Mr. Dudley, and the colony in Loudon led by Mr. Adams was not 

 without its influence being ultimately felt in England. John Bright's remarkable 

 speeches were followed by the sympathy of some of the most profound thinkers iu Great 

 Britain. 



