To this was soon added a picture of Northern democracy as composed of and controlled by the "immigrant element" which was the source of "the enormous increase of population in the last thirty years" from revolutionary areas in Europe.

"Germans, Hungarians, Irish carried with them more than their strong arms, they imported also their theories of equality....

The revolutionary party which represents them is at this moment master in the States of the North, where it is indulging in all its customary licence[1359]." This fact, complained _The Index_, was not sufficiently brought out in the English press.

Very different was the picture painted by Anthony Trollope after a tour of the Western states: "...

this man has his romance, his high poetic feeling, and above all his manly dignity.