This 'Southern gentleman' theory, containing as it did an undeniable element of truth, is much harped upon by certain of the reviewers, and one can easily conceive of its popularity in the London Clubs....

The 'American,' so familiar to British readers, during the first half of the century, through the eyes of such travellers as Mrs.Trollope, now becomes the 'Yankee,' and is located north of Mason and Dixon's line[60]." Such portrayal was not characteristic of all Reviews, rather of the Tory organs alone, and the Radical _Westminster_ took pains to deny the truth of the picture, asserting again and again that the vital and sole cause of the conflict was slavery.

Previous articles are summed up in that of October, 1863, as a profession of the _Westminster's_ opinion throughout: "...

the South are fighting for liberty to found a Slave Power.

Should it prove successful, truer devil's work, if we may use the metaphor, will rarely have been done[61]." Fortunate would it have been for the Northern cause, if British opinion generally sympathetic at first on anti-slavery grounds, had not soon found cause to doubt the just basis of its sympathy, from the trend of events in America.