All honor to the half million of our working population in Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere, who are bearing with heroic fortitude the privation which your war has entailed upon them!...

Their sublime resignation, their self-forgetfulness, their observance of law, their whole-souled love of the cause of human freedom, their quick and clear perception of the merits of the question between the North and the South...

are extorting the admiration of all classes of the community ..." How much of all this do you ever hear from the people who remember the Alabama?
Strictly in accord with Beecher's vivid summary of the true England in our Civil War, are some passages of a letter from Mr.John Bigelow, who was at that time our Consul-General at Paris, and whose impressions, written to our Secretary of State, Mr.Seward, on February 6, 1863, are interesting to compare with what Beecher says in that letter, from which I have already given extracts.
"The anti-slavery meetings in England are having their effect upon the Government already...

The Paris correspondent of the London Post also came to my house on Wednesday evening...

He says...