. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. otbad. My sympathies were then—where they had long before been, wherethey are now—with the whole American people. I probably, like manyEuropeans, did not understand the nature and working of the American BUDGET OF 1861 AND AMERICAN COMPLICATIONS. 33i Union. I had imbibed conscientiously, if erroneously, an opinion thattwent
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. otbad. My sympathies were then—where they had long before been, wherethey are now—with the whole American people. I probably, like manyEuropeans, did not understand the nature and working of the American BUDGET OF 1861 AND AMERICAN COMPLICATIONS. 33i Union. I had imbibed conscientiously, if erroneously, an opinion thattwenty or twenty-four millions of the North would be happier and would bestronger (of course assuming that they would hold together) without theSouth than with it, and also that the Negroes would be much nearer toemancipation under a Southern government than under the old system ofthe Union, which had not at that date [August, 1862] been abandoned, andwhich always appeared to me to place the whole power of the North at thecommand of the slaveholding interests of the South. As far as regards thespecial or separate interest of England in the matter, I, differing from manyothers, had always contended that it was best for our interest that the Unionshould be kept
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