Meanwhile, however, just at the moment when dominant Whig influence in England carried through that step forward toward democratic institutions which Whigs had long lauded in America, the latter country had progressed to manhood suffrage, or as nearly all leading Englishmen, whether Whig or Tory, regarded it, had plunged into the rule of the mob.

The result was a rapid lessening in Whig ruling-class expression of admiration for America, even before long to the complete cessation of such admiration, and to assertions in Great Britain that the Reform of 1832 was "final," the last step toward democracy which Britain could safely take.

It is not strange that the books and reviews of the period from 1830 to 1840, heavily stress the dangers and crudity of American democracy.

They were written for what was now a nearly unanimous British reading public, fearful lest Radical pressure for still further electoral reform should preach the example of the United States.
Thus after 1832 the previous sympathy for America of one section of the British governing class disappears.

More--it is replaced by a critical, if not openly hostile attitude.