68/342 Derby called the Bill "a leap in the dark," but assented to it.] [Footnote 1397: Pierce, _Sumner_, IV, pp. 151-153, summarizes the factors determining British attitude and places first the fear of the privileged classes of the example of America, but his treatment really minimizes this element.] [Footnote 1398: Goldwin Smith, "The Civil War in America: An Address read at the last meeting of the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society." (Jan. 71-75.] [Footnote 1399: Goldwin Smith, _America and England in their present relations_, London, 1869, p. |