Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150712:17:48:00
Consul in charleston south carolina, in 1853. and he served there for ten years, until 1863. through all the buildup to the civil war, through secession, and through the early days of the civil war. and while he ingratiated himself with the slave owners and elite in charleston secretly he was sending back confidential dispatches to london saying do not back these people do not support these people. and precisely because britain never did support the confederacy in any significant way, the confederacy had very little chance of winning that war. if britain had supported them it would have been c...