James Spence

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James Spence was a Liverpool merchant who wrote a series of commissioned pro-Confederacy letters to The Times; described there as "the Confederacy financial adviser in England" (History of The Times, II, 380 and n and 384).

In 1861 he wrote The American Union, its Effects on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the Disruption. This was followed by a pamphlet, On the Recognition of the Southern Confederacy, 1862 (3 edns).