1895.] ^Jl [Potts. 



•where they were larger far — 'the national losses caused by the prolonga- 

 tion of the war and traceable directly to England,' and he clinched the 

 statement by saying, ' If through British intervention the war was doubled 

 in duration or in any way extended, as cannot be doubted, then is Eng- 

 land justly responsible for the additional expenditure to which our coun- 

 try was doomed ;' and he stated the cost of the suppression of the Rebel- 

 lion at $4,000,000,000, thus leaving the calculation of this item plain to 

 the youngest schoolboy." 



"The feeling of hostility towards our country," Mr. Dudley said, 

 " was not confined to one class, but pervaded all classes, the laboring and 

 middle classes as well as the higher. Of the entire population of Eng- 

 land, nine out of every ten sympathized with the slave-holders' Rebellion. 

 I say nine out of every ten, deliberately. I am aware there are those in 

 England who entertain a different opinion, and assert that among the 

 laboring classes of the country the majority were with the North. I do 

 not think so, and am satisfied the proportions I have given are cor- 

 rect 



"You can now understand how it was that this sympathy should 

 become active and bear fruit in the recognition of belligerent rights to 

 the rebels, in building them a navy, in fitting out cruisers to sweep our 

 commerce from the seas, in furnishing arms and munitions to their 

 army, and supplies to clothe and feed them. You can also understand 

 why one of the leading blockade runners, whilst mainly engaged in the 

 blockade business, was elected Mayor of Liverpool ; why John Laird 

 could be elected to Parliament from Birkenhead by an increased majority ; 

 and why Sheffield, a leading manufacturing town, trading with the United 

 States, would send Roebuck as their representative. 



"The effect of all this was to prolong, to intensify and render more 

 bloody the war. Much of the blood that was spilt, muchof the treasure that 

 was spent, are justly chargeable to the Government and people of Europe 

 who recognized the rebels as belligerents and gave them aid and comfort ; 

 and to this charge the people of England are especially obnoxious. But 

 for this recognition, the South could not have had a cruiser on the ocean ; 

 but for this active aid and sympathy she could not have armed her men, or 

 fed or clothed them when in the field. It was the hope of intervention 

 that buoyed up the South, and cheered them on in the desperate contest. 

 It was this that supplied fuel to the fiame and kept the fire burning. But 

 for this, in my judgment, tlie war could not have lasted for a year ; and the 

 probabilities are that the ninety days given by Mr. Seward for its termi- 

 nation would have witnessed the end, as he predicted."* 



In 1867, the Government of the United States sent David A. Wells to 

 Europe for the purpose of investigating the questions of production and 

 labor in England, France, Belgium and Germany. Mr. Seward, at the 

 instance of the Secretary of the Treasury, detailed Mr. Dudley to accom- 



* See p. U, Proceedings at the Dinner Given by the Bar of New Jersey to Thomas H. Dudley, 

 Esq., Nov. 25, 1868, Newark. 



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