North America (Classic Reprint)

And now touching t is war which had broken out between the N orth and South before I left England. I would wish to explain what my feelings were; or rather what I believe the general feelings of England to have been, before I found myself amen the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difiiclfit for the people of any one nation to realize the litiosl relations of another, and to chew the end and digest e bear ings of those external politics But it is unjust in the one to deeide upon the political aspirations and domgs of that other without such understanding. Constantl as the name of France is in our mouth, comparatively few 'shmen understand the way in which France is governed; - t at is, how far absolute despotism prevails. And how far the power of the one ruler is tempered, or, as it may be, hampered by the voices and influ ence of others. And as regards England, how seldom is it that in common society a foreigner is met who comprehends the nap ture of her political arrangements! To a Frenchman, - I do not of course include eat men who have made the subject a study, - bnt to the 0 ins intelligent Frenchman the thin is.

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