. Popular history of the civil war . ten, each is boundin honor to keep. This law does not allow one nation tomeddle with anothers affairs. Forgetting how it had come about, England had longblamed the United States for holding slaves. Indeed, shehad been very severe in her fault-finding; and, wheneveran American abolitionist chanced to visit that country, hewas petted and feasted on account of his principles. It wastherefore very natural that the North should expect Englands God-speed, when civil war was declared ; for she knew verywell that slavery was the root of all the trouble. To the sur-
. Popular history of the civil war . ten, each is boundin honor to keep. This law does not allow one nation tomeddle with anothers affairs. Forgetting how it had come about, England had longblamed the United States for holding slaves. Indeed, shehad been very severe in her fault-finding; and, wheneveran American abolitionist chanced to visit that country, hewas petted and feasted on account of his principles. It wastherefore very natural that the North should expect Englands God-speed, when civil war was declared ; for she knew verywell that slavery was the root of all the trouble. To the sur-prise of everybody, however, she was greatly put out about you guess the reason ? Suppose that you were to hire a boy to bring you a bushelof chestnuts, and he had a dog to draw his wagon. If yousaw him beating and abusing the poor beast, you would besorry for the animal, and scold the boy well. But if a police-man were to arrest the boy, and take the dog away from him,so that he could not bring you your chestnuts, making you. i86i.] On the Sea, 157 the sufferer instead of the dog, it would be another would lose the chestnuts through the meddling of thepoliceman, and you might be vexed with him. That was the way in which England felt. She has so litdeland in her dominions, that her rents are very high, and herpeople cannot make a living by farming : so there are a greatmany factories, or mills, where all kinds of cloth are made,to which her people must look for employment. Now, shemust have cotton to work with; and all the cotton camefrom the South, being raised by slaves. If her trade withthe South were stopped, or if the slaves were to be set freeso that there would be no one to raise the cotton, her millswould be idle, and her own pocket would suffer. With the wind in this quarter, Englands opinion flewaround in a twinkling, like a weather-vane. The trouble inAmerica was a civil war, or home rebellion; and outsidecountries had no right to interfere. Great Br
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