TitleHasty recognition of rebel belligerency and our right to complain of it.
PublisherA. Williams & Co.
Date Created1865
Subject
DescriptionThis short text of four chapters plus an appendix seek to meet and answer the position, set up by Earl Russell, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1861, that the recognition of the American rebels as a belligerent power was a necessity and not a choice; and that this hasty recognition by two European powers, Britain and France, and their subsequent declaration of neutrality helped to bring about the "most gigantic and immoral sedition in history," which resulted in "inaugurating the bloodiest and most cruel civil war since the Christian era."
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