Henry Hotze

Henry Hotze (September 2, 1833 – April 19, 1887) was a Swiss American advocate for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He served as a Confederate agent in Great Britain, attempting to build support there for the Southern cause. Hotze used liberal arguments of self-determination in favor of national independence, echoing the failed European revolutions of 1848. He also promised that the Confederacy would be a low-tariff nation in contrast to the high-tariff United States, and he emphasized the consequences of cotton shortages for the industrial workers in Britain, caused by the Union blockade of Southern ports.