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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 16: Anglomania and Anglophobia (search)
rica in regard to matters here, and there is really not one per cent., Arnold writes, who does not take the strongest possible side for the Confederates; and you know from what class these students were drawn. Letters, I., 285. They were drawn, we may assume, from the lower middle class. This corresponds to all the experience of those who visited England during or soon after the Civil War, to the overwhelming antagonism there existing against the Union cause at a time when we were, in General Sherman's phrase, expending one thousand million dollars and one hundred thousand lives to put down the slavery which England had always condemned us for tolerating. Moreover, fortunately or unfortunately, the sympathy of England for secession when manifested came in a form so inadequate and inconsistent that it offended even those whom it meant to befriend, and there is no especial sympathy visible in our Southern States in that direction. Add to this the long series of insults so ingenio