Of the rest of the population an immense number were the indifferent, who had no sympathies to spare for any beyond their own fireside circles.

In the course of time sensation writers came up on the surface of society, and by way of originality they condemned almost every measure and person of the past.
"Emancipation was a mistake;" and these fast writers drew along with them a large body, who would fain be slaveholders themselves.

We must never lose sight of the fact that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only because the law forbids the practice.

In this proclivity we see a great part of the reason of the frantic sympathy of thousands with the rebels in the great Black war in America.

It is true that we do sympathize with brave men, though we may not approve of the objects for which they fight.