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confusion and the ignorance difficult to harmonize with the theory of a
"illuminated press." The Revisions, from the conditions of publication they came
in action more slowly and during 1860 there appeared but an article,
in the _Edinburgh Review_, giving some idea suitable of that that was really
place that he/she takes in America[48]. The smaller British papers generally
follows the tone of the principal diaries, but without both great
affairs or a lot of acumen. In truth the depth of British newspaper
ignorance, while considering their positiveness of expression, it suddenly appears
stupendous if you/he/she is concerned by the sight-stings of modern historian
knowledge. But is this, later everything, a matter for surprise? It was not there
equal confusion at least, possibly the equal ignorance, in same America,
certainly between the press and Northern people of States? Them also
you/he/she had come from experiments to discount Southern threats, and it was slow to
understands that the great conflict of ideals and affairs it was to
last started.
The British press influenced and reflected opinion of cultured class,
and, in of the degree, official opinion as well. God John Russell to the
Foreign Office and God that Lyons, Minister British to Washington both
anxious letters that exchange, and the second was sending relationships of house
extraordinary for their clear analysis of the American controversy. Still
also he was slow to appreciate the inevitability of secession.
[The illustration: the Mr. LYONS (_From a photo taken in Boston U.S.A,,
in 1860) (From God her "Life of Newton of God Lyons", from kind permission_)]
Other officers, especially that in smaller positions in the united one
States, showed a lack of taking of the situation similar to that of the
press. An amusing illustration of this, furnishing a forced sight of
causes, are provisioned in a letter of February 2 nd 1860, from Consul Bunch,
to Charleston, S.C., to God Lyons, the British Minister to
Washington[49]. Group wrote describing a supper that the had been given