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controversy produced a comprehensive British comment with the north. The
tumult preceding and following the election of Lincoln in 1860, on the
base of "any delay of slavery", you/he/she was noticed from very generally the
English press and public as a favourable of the signal to the cause of
anti-slavery, but without understanding that Southern threat is able to
of last account is made in action defined. Herbert Spencer, in a letter of May
15, 1862, to his/her American friend Yeomans, wrote, "As far as me I had the
he/she means to judge, feeling was above here the decidedly_ of _very for first the
side of the North[34]..." The British metropolitan press, in almost
every problem of what for at least two years later December, 1860, there
articles of news appeared and I comment publishing on the American crisis, it was to
before almost unanimous in to condemn the South[35]. The _Times_, with
accustomed vigour, conducted the field. November 21 st 1860 affirmed,:
"When we read the discourse of the Mr. Lincoln on the subject of
Slavery and it considers the extreme moderation of the feelings
it expresses, the check that the situation is constituted,
for the feelings, for the prejudices, of the South; when us
sees how completely he tightens his/her opposition to the single one
point of the admission of Slavery in the Territories, us
you/he/she cannot help to forcedly be struck by the absurdity of
breaking on an enormous and glorious confederation as that of the
United States from the feared and anger inhaled by the
election of such man in the office of Principal Judge....
We cheer there, on motives taller and surer than it [the
election] you/he/she has ended in the return of the Mr. Lincoln. We am happy
to think that the March of Slavery and the dominant tone
what his/her promoters were starting to suppose on the Liberty,
you/he/she has been arrested for a long time and you/he/she has been made to keep silent. We cheer there that a
the enormous community of ours own run has given for a long time a