Moreover the _Daily News_ was all the more influential in that it was not uncritical of the North, yet consistently, throughout the war, expressed sympathy for the cause and principles behind the efforts of the Northern Government.

Selling for a low price, twopence-halfpenny, the _Daily News_, like the _Westminster_ among the Reviews, appealed to a broader and more popular constituency than the older publications, especially to a constituency not yet vocal, since still unrepresented, in Parliament[113].
The _Daily News_ was fortunate in having, after 1862, the best-informed New York correspondent writing to the London press.

This was an Irishman, E.L.Godkin, who, both at home and in America, was the intimate friend of literary men, and himself, later, a great moulder of public opinion[114].

Harriet Martineau further aided the _Daily News_ by contributing pro-Northern articles, and was a power in Radical circles[115].

But literary England in general, was slow to express itself with conviction, though Robert Browning, by April, 1861, was firmly determined in his pro-Northern sentiment.