_Blackwood's_, in its issue of February, 1863, declared, as before: "Every sensible man in this country now acknowledges ...

that we have already gone as far toward democracy as is safe to go....

This is the great moral benefit which we have derived from the events in America." John Blackwood was an intimate friend of Delane, editor of the _Times_, holding similar views on political questions; but the _Times_ was suddenly grown cautious in reading English political lessons from America.

In truth, attack now rested with the Radicals and Bright's oratory was in great demand[1362].
He now advanced from the defensive position of laudation of the North to the offensive one of attacking the Southern aristocracy, not merely because it wished to perpetuate African slavery, but because it desired to make all the working-classes as subservient to it as was the negro[1363].

It was now Radical purpose to keep the battle raging and they were succeeding.