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1861. My Dear Hill: I have again to express my great regret at not being able to attend the Conference. You may well believe how deep an interest I take in it. There wants some such thing to give one comfort in these times, when such untoward events are, it is to be feared, in progress. The difficulties unhappily interposed by various causes (some of a kind not easily removed,) to the settlement of Italy under a constitutional government, freeing her from the worst tyranny of modern times, and, above all, the alarm felt by all the friends of human improvement at the risk of disunion in America, are naturally uppermost in one's mind at the present time. How much it is to be wished that the contending parties in both Italy and America would take a leaf out of our books, and learn the wisdom as well as virtue of compromise and mutual concession! Our Constitution is the genuine result of this wisdom. I heartily wish success to the Conference, and believe me, etc., Brougham.
January 19th, 1861 AD (search for this): article 13
Lord Brougham in favor of concession. --The following letter, addressed by Lord Brougham to the Birmingham Conference, is well deserving of the attention of those shallow politicians, who, in order to sustain something they call a platform, make shipwreck of the Union: Cannes, (Var.,) Jan. 19th, 1861. My Dear Hill: I have again to express my great regret at not being able to attend the Conference. You may well believe how deep an interest I take in it. There wants some such thing to give one comfort in these times, when such untoward events are, it is to be feared, in progress. The difficulties unhappily interposed by various causes (some of a kind not easily removed,) to the settlement of Italy under a constitutional government, freeing her from the worst tyranny of modern times, and, above all, the alarm felt by all the friends of human improvement at the risk of disunion in America, are naturally uppermost in one's mind at the present time. How much it is to b