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representation of his/her opinions. "This body could express him from this way
raw methods comparatively as public reunions and demonstrations, but
you/he/she was prevented in literary and political expression[42]." The opinion
some press was then, presumably, the opinion of the majority of the
I publish British and educated.
This way I comment British on America he/she took the form, for before
moralizations, now severe toward the South, now indifferent, still a lot
generally affirming the essential justice of the Northern position. But
it was evident soon that the newspapers, one and all, were completely
not prepared for the definite forehead soon mass above in Carolina Meridionale and
other States Southern. Surprised by the violence of Southerner
declarations, the only explanation found by the British press was that
political control had been grabbed by the without education and illegal element.
The _Times_ characterized this element of the South as in a state of
comparable deplorable ignorance with that of the Irish peasantry, a
"poor, proud, lazy, excitable and violent class, never ready with knife
and revolver[43]." The fate of the union, according to the _Saturday
Review_, was in the hands of the more ignorant person, more deprived than scruples, and
more without law [the class] in the world--the poor men or the bad whites of the Slave
States[44]." How judgments it was express from the _Economist_ and, more
mildly, from the _Spectator_[45]. Accordingly some of these diaries
the difficulty found in this connection, in to swing round the circle to
expressions of the admiration for the wise man and powerful aristocracy of the
South; but all, especially the _Times_ they were specialized from long practice
in the journalistic art to face around while asking perfect
consistence. In refusal of a Southern right of secession, they was also
almost an unit[46], although the _Saturday Review_ debated the case for the
South, making a pointed parallel between the present situation and that
of the American Colonies in to serve a secession as England[47].
The quotations constituted so far exposure the principal papers an initial