Philanthropic movements elsewhere were regarded with jealousy and distrust.

Southern statesmen of the highest rank looked upon British emancipation in the West Indies as designedly hostile to the prosperity and safety of their own section, and as a plot for the ultimate destruction of the Republic.
Each year the hatred against the North deepened, and the boundary between the free States and the slave States was becoming as marked as a line of fire.

The South would see no way of dealing with Slavery except to strengthen and fortify it at every point.

Its extinction they would not contemplate.

Even a suggestion for its amelioration was regarded as dangerous to the safety of the State and to the sacredness of the family.
BRITISH SUPPORT OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.
Southern opinion had not always been of this type.