Roughly comparing 1776 with 1861, it was once more the Tories, the aristocrats, the Lord Norths, who hoped for our overthrow, while the people of England, with certain liberal leaders in Parliament, stood our friends.
Just as Pitt and Burke had spoken for us in our Revolution, so Bright and Cobden befriended us now.

The parallel ceases when you come to the Sovereign.

Queen Victoria declined to support or recognize Slave Land.
She stopped the Government and aristocratic England from forcing war upon us, she prevented the French Emperor, Napoleon III, from recognizing the Southern Confederacy.

We shall come to this in its turn.
Our Civil War set up in England a huge vibration, subjected England to a searching test of herself.

Nothing describes this better than a letter of Henry Ward Beecher's, written during the War, after his return from addressing the people of England.
"My own feelings and judgment underwent a great change while I was in England...