Each renewal of the conflict in America, even though local, not national in character, drew out a flood of comment.

In the public press this blot upon American civilization was a steady subject for attack, and that attack was naturally directed against the South.
The London _Times_, in particular, lost no opportunity of presenting the matter to its readers.

In 1856, a Mr.Thomas Gladstone visited Kansas during the height of the border struggles there, and reported his observations in letters to the _Times_.

The writer was wholly on the side of the Northern settlers in Kansas, though not hopeful that the Kansas struggle would expand to a national conflict.

He constantly depicted the superior civilization, industry, and social excellence of the North as compared with the South[26].
Mrs.Stowe's _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ excited greater interest in England than in America itself.