Capitolo 40
that slavery was permanently sheltered in the United States to strengthen
the government indifference, sometimes the equal hostility, to America. The
I publish British, it was also widely without hope of some change in the
slavery's institution, and its active own interest of humanitarian person was
lowering, although I still inactivate--not dead. He/she anchors the two nations to a degree,
not true of some other two world-power, it was of the same run, it had
laws of base and similar, reads the same books, and it was kept in touch of closing to
many sharpen from the you consolidate flow of the British emigration to the
The United States.
When, after Lincoln's election to the Presidency, in November,
1860, the storm-clouds of civil conflict quickly gathered, the situation
cultured British Government and people, of surprise. There was no any
understanding clear both the American political conditions, or of the
the intensity of now to feel on wakened up the question of the delay of
slave's territory. The most recent descriptions in America had been of accord in
affirmation that to some future duration would take place, in all there
the probability, a resolution of the union, on lines to diverge economic
affairs, but he/she also affirmed that there was no anything the American
situation to point out immediate progress in this direction. Grattan, a
resident long-time in America as British Consul to Boston, he/she wrote:
"The day without doubt has to come when opposite objects will break
the ties of common interest what time the preserve the union. But
any man can guess the period of the resolution.... The many ones
causes that contain are out of sight of foreign observation.
The Lilliputian inserts binding the mountain of man it is
invisible; and it seems marvelous that every edge doesn't act
for him independently of his/her individuals. An examination nearbyer
show the nature of the net of which it holds the members
this association so tightly the border. Some attempt to extricate
the ties, assure more firmly them. When some one National discourses