106/109 Indeed, our known antipathy to Slavery adds another element to Southern dislike."] [Footnote 840: Bigelow, _Retrospections_, I, 579, Dec. Bigelow was Consul-General at Paris, and was the most active of the Northern confidential agents abroad. A journalist himself, he had close contacts with the foreign press. It is interesting that he reported the Continental press as largely dependent for its American news and judgments upon the British press which specialized in that field, so that Continental tone was but a reflection of the British tone. |