Capitolo 35
American abolitionist, Furnishes of garrison, you find more support in England that in
his/her really country; his/her weekly paper, _The Liberator_ is full of communications
of humor from British friends and society, and of quotations from a
comprehensive, although it generally stamps provincial, British.
From 1830 to 1850 the British feeling of anti-slavery was to its height. It
looked above with anxiety the evidence of a struggle in development slavery
in the United States, full of hope, as every crisis rose, that the free one
Is northern they would impose their wish on the Slave Southern States.
But as every crisis it turned to jeopardize, while apparently improving the power
of the South, and committing America to a retention of slavery, the
the hopes of British abolitionists lowered. The north did indeed, to English
opinion, is identified with opposition to the expansion of slavery,
but after the great compromise" of 1850", where the oldest American
men of state of north and South, proclaimed her/it "finality" of that
you measure, British understanding for the north quickly decreased. Besides,
after 1850, it was in same Britain a decadence of general humanitarian person
the feeling as slavery of regards. The crusade had started to seem without hope and
the more first vigorous agitators were dead. The British Government still
maintained his/her naval squadron for the suppression of the African slave
commerces, but the British official mind he interested more acutely
or in this effort or in the general question of slavery.
Nevertheless still American slavery and the conditions of slave were, later
1850, favourite cares him for discussion, almost universally critical from
Writers English. Every renewal of the conflict in America, even if
local, not national in character, it unsheathed a flood of comment. In the
public press this stain on the American civilization was a you consolidate subject
for attack, and that attack was naturally directed against the South.
The _Times_ Londinese, particularly, lost any opportunity to introduce the