A loud protest will arise against the _faineant_ policy which declines to interfere while men of English blood are uselessly murdering each other by thousands, and while England's most important manufacture is thereby ruined....

It remains to be seen whether the voice of the North will have any effect upon the policy of the Government[1132]." By "the North" was meant the manufacturing districts and an explanation was made of the difficulty of similar efforts in London because it was really a "congeries of cities," with no such solidarity of interests as characterized "the North[1133]." Without London, however, the movement lacked driving force and it was determined to create there an association which should become the main-spring of further activities.
Spence, Beresford Hope, and Lord Eustace Cecil were made a committee to draft a plan and preliminary address.

Funds were now forthcoming from the big blockade-running firms "Some time ago I saw friend Collie, who had made a terrific sum of money, and told him he must come out for the cause in proportion thereto.

To this he responded like a brick, I was near saying, but I mean Briton--by offering at once to devote a percentage of cotton out of each steamer that runs the blockade, to the good of the cause.

He has given me at once L500 on account of this--which I got to-day in a cheque and have sent on to Lord Eustace Cecil, our treasurer.