Mackay was at least of sufficient repute as a poet to be thought worthy of a dinner in Boston at which there were present, Longfellow, Holmes, Agassiz, Lowell, Prescott, Governor Banks, and others.

He preached "hands across the seas" in his public lectures, occasionally reading his poem "John and Jonathan"-- a sort of advance copy of Kipling's idea of the "White Man's Burden." Mackay's concluding verse, "John" speaking, was: "And I have strength for nobler work Than e'er my hand has done, And realms to rule and truths to plant Beyond the rising sun.
Take you the West and I the East; We'll spread ourselves abroad, With trade and spade and wholesome laws, And faith in man and God." ] [Footnote 34: Duncan, _Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer_, Vol.

I, p.
140.] [Footnote 35: R.C.Hamilton, Manuscript Chapters and Notes on "The English Press and the Civil War." Mr.Hamilton was at work on this subject, as a graduate student, but left Stanford University before completing his thesis.

His notes have been of considerable value, both for suggested citations from the English Press, and for points of interpretation.] [Footnote 36: _Economist_, November 24, 1860.

Six months later, however, the _Economist_ pictured Lincoln as merely an unknown "sectionalist," with no evidence of statesmanship--_Economist_, June 1, 1861.] [Footnote 37: _Saturday Review_, November 24, 1860.] [Footnote 38: _Spectator_, November 24, 1860.] [Footnote 39: The _Times_, November 26, 1860.] [Footnote 40: _Ibid._, November 29, 1860.] [Footnote 41: _Ibid._] [Footnote 42: R.L.Duffus, "Contemporary English Popular Opinion on the American Civil War," p.2.A thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Stanford University, 1911.