is perfectly correct in saying that "every act of our government was performed under the impending danger of a recognition of the Confederacy, a disregard of the blockade, and the actual intervention of Great Britain in our attempt to suppress an insurrection upon our own territory." FOOTNOTES: [168] Lord John Russell was raised to the peerage, as Earl Russell, just after this time, _i.e._, in July, 1861. [169] An effort was made to carry out this theory in the case of the crew of the privateer Savannah; but the jury failed to agree, and the attempt was not afterward renewed, privateersmen being exchanged like other prisoners of war. [170] Mr. Welles declares that Seward at first opposed the surrender; but Mr. Chittenden asserts that he knows that Mr. Seward's first opinion coincided with his later action; see Mr. Welles's _Lincoln and Seward_, and Chittenden's _Recollections_, 148. End of Project Gutenberg's Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I., by John T. Morse