Under the caption, "Mrs.Beecher Stowe's Wounded Feelings," the _Saturday Review_ avowed disbelief in the existence of a "Holy War" in America.

"The North does not proclaim abolition and never pretended to fight for anti-slavery.

The North has not hoisted for its oriflamme the Sacred Symbol of Justice to the Negro; its _cri de guerre_ is not unconditional emancipation." "The Governmental course of the British nation ...

is not yet directed by small novelists and their small talk[338]." Thomas Hughes also came in for sarcastic reference in this article, having promptly taken up the cudgels for Mrs.Stowe.He returned to the attack through the columns of the _Spectator_, reasserting slavery as an issue and calling on Englishmen to put themselves in the place of Americans and realize the anger aroused by "deliberate imputations of mean motives," and by the cruel spirit of the utterances.

A nation engaged in a life and death struggle should not be treated in a tone of flippant and contemptuous serenity.