HIS PART IN THE CIVIL WAR 175 



sought to impress upon the British the hopefulness of 

 the Southern cause. 



On October 7 of that year, Gladstone, the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer, had said at a banquet at Newcastle, 

 'There is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other 

 leaders of the South have made an army; they are 

 making, it appears, a navy; and they have made, what 

 is more than either — they have made a nation". The 

 speech caused a sensation, and was received with cheers. 

 "We may anticipate", he also declared, "with certainty 

 the success of the Southern States so far as their separa- 

 tion from the North is concerned". ^ Maury had reason, 

 therefore, for being at first very hopeful of European 

 recognition and intervention, and was not merely draw- 

 ing on his imagination when he wrote, "The Emperor 

 may, and I hope will, decide on recognition and there are 

 hopes here that when Parliament meets, February 5, 

 the British government may find itself compelled to do 

 something". 



In a short time, however, his eyes began to be opened, 

 and he saw that, though great admiration was expressed 

 for the bravery of the soldiers and the heroism of the 

 women of the South, such sympathy was more apparent 

 than real and was confined mostly to the upper classes. 

 He began to realize that, since 1850, a million and a half 

 had gone from the English middle class and settled in 

 the North, and that their relatives and friends at home 

 naturally sympathized with that section in the war. 



Toward the close of the year 1863, Maury drew up a 

 "Recast of Resolutions, etc." for a Southern sympa- 



2 "History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850" by James 

 Ford Rhodes, IV, 339. 



