One such, drawn by W.
Liebknecht, A.Vogt, and C.Schilling read in part: "Members of the working-class, we need not affirm to you the sincerity of these our sympathies; for with pride we can point to the fact, that, while the aristocracy of the Old World took openly the part of the southern slaveholder, and while the middle class was divided in its opinions, the working-men in all countries of Europe have unanimously and firmly stood on the side of the Union." (_U.S.Diplomatic Correspondence, 1865_, Pt.
IV, p.

500.)] [Footnote 1395: _U.S.Messages and Documents, 1865_, Pt.

I, p.

417.
Adams to Hunter, July 13, 1865.] [Footnote 1396: Disraeli was less disturbed by this than were other Tory leaders.

He had long before, in his historical novels, advocated an aristocratic leadership of democracy, as against the middle class.