For nearly half a century after the American Civil War the natural sentiments of friendship, based upon ties of blood and a common heritage of literature and history and law, were distorted by bitter and exaggerated memories.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1323: See my article, "The Point of View of the British Traveller in America," _Pol.Sci.Quarterly_, June, 1914.] [Footnote 1324: Alexander Mackay, _The Western World; or Travels in the United States in_ 1846-47.] [Footnote 1325: _Ibid._, Fourth Edition, London, 1850, Vol.

III, p.

24.] [Footnote 1326: Hugh Seymour Tremenheere, _The Constitution of the United States compared with Our Own_, London, 1854.] [Footnote 1327: e.g., William Kelly, _Across the Rocky Mountains from New York to California_, London, 1852.

He made one acute observation on American democracy.

"The division of parties is just the reverse in America to what it is in England.