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[Footnote 142: Du Bose, _Yancey_, p. 604.] [Footnote 143: Lyons Papers. The copy of the Memorandum sent to Lyons is undated, but from Russell's letter to Lyons of May 4, in which it was enclosed, it is presumable that the date of May 3 for the Memorandum is correct.] [Footnote 144: _Ibid._, Russell to Lyons, May 4, 1861.] [Footnote 145: F.O., Am., Vol. 755, No. 121, Russell to Lyons, May 6, 1861.] [Footnote 146: It is to be remembered that the United States had given no notice of the existence of a state of war.] [Footnote 147: In diplomatic usage official notification of neutrality to a belligerent has varied, but Russell's letters show him to have appreciated a peculiar delicacy here.] [Footnote 148: F.O., France, Vol. 1376, No. 553. Draft. Printed in _Parliamentary Papers_, 1862, _Lords_, Vol. XXV. "Correspondence on International Maritime Law." No. 1.] [Footnote 149: It is interesting that on this same day Lyons was writing from Washington advocating, regretfully, because of his sympathy with
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the North, a strict British neutrality: "The sympathies of an Englishman are naturally inclined towards the North--but I am afraid we should find that anything like a quasi alliance with the men in office here would place us in a position which would soon become untenable. There would be no end to the exactions which they would make upon us, there would be no end to the disregard of our neutral rights, which they would show if they once felt sure of us. If I had the least hope of their being able to reconstruct the Union, or even of their being able to reduce the South to the condition of a tolerably contented or at all events obedient dependency, my feeling against Slavery might lead me to desire to co-operate with them. But I conceive all chance of this to be gone for ever." Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell, May 6, 1861.] [Footnote 150: F.O., France, Vol. 1390. No. 677.] [Footnote 151: _Ibid._, No. 684. Printed in part in _Parliamentary Papers, 1862, Lords_, Vol. XXV. "Correspondence on International Maritime Law." No. 3.] [Footnote 152: _Times_, May 9, 1861.]