Capitolo 55
first attitude. "The national slavery of the South is a bitter pill
what enough it will be hard to find the English to swallow. But if the
Enslaved Work will be assistant to the dose, the finicky English
stomach will refuse it[68]."
Nevertheless the vigorous action of Carolina Meridionale, followed soon from
other States Southern, it made a deep impression on Russell, especially
when it compared with the uncertainty and the irresolution it manifested in the
compromise tried measure of men of is Northern. In a private letter
to Lyons, January 10 th 1861, he wrote "I don't see how the United States
you/he/she can be paved again with pebbles together by some compromise.... I cannot see of it
way of reconcile such parties as these. The best thing that _now_ is able
both that to the right to make a secession you/he/she should be given credit.... I hope judicious
men will take this sight.... But above all I hope that anybody strength will be
used[69]." And again twelve days later, "I imagine the breakup of the
Now union is inevitable[70]." To Russell, as to more foreign observatories,
it seemed that if the South with his/her great wealth, his/her enormous extension
of territory and the his/her five and one-half millions of population, it was
determined to leave the union, anybody strength anything could force a return.
History failed to record some revolution on so great a staircase that had
not succeeded. His/her desire, therefore it was that the north would have produced
the inevitable one, and it would not dip in a civil and useless war disastrous
likewise to the prosperity of America and foreign nations. Russell
before the hope was that the South would have lived without secession; the his/her according to, this
finished, that would not be war, and in this sense him
Instructed Lyons. The second, less anxious than peaceful separation, and
more aware of the latent power of the north, maintained in his
whole service to Washington that there was at least a _chance_ that the
Northerly you/he/she could subjugate the strength South of arms[71], but him also, looking