ing tourists from the mother-land.

Mr. Dicey clearly exhibits the bearing of the Rebellion upon the fate of
the servile population of the South, and confesses that his deep
sympathy with the Federal cause came from the conviction that the
supremacy or overthrow of Slavery was intimately connected with the
success or failure of Secession. In acknowledging the necessity that was
upon loyal Americans of defending the fundamental law of their society,
he is not disposed to adopt the lamentation of some of our foreign
well-wishers who are troubled by the fear of a military despotism in the
Free States. He has the sagacity to perceive that the genius and
development of the graduates of Northern school-houses are totally
opposed to a military rule. Mr. Dicey cordially recognizes the
democratic idea which sanctifies our convulsion, and displays a careful
observation in noting "the self-restraint, the moderation, and the
patience of the American people in the conduct of the people's war." He
is not over-disturbed because this same people loved law and order more
than freedom itself, and with few murmurs committed high principles to
the championship of whatever petty men happened to represent them.
Indeed, one of the best sayings he reports is that of an old Polish
exile, who congratulates himself that there will be no saviours of
society, no fathers of their country, to be provided for when the war
is over.

Throughout these two volumes British readers may discern something more
than the barren facts of our struggle: they may catch glimpses of its
energy and movement; they may see it as reflected from the most generous
American minds. For it seems to have been Mr. Dicey's good fortune in
this country to have gained admission to the society of men and women of
high intelligence, in whom the religious sentiment was living and
powerful; and he appears to estimate the full weight of testimony such
persons offered in sending their loved ones to Virginia to fall beneath
the rifle of some Southern boor. It is this silent public opinion of the
North which our foreign critics have generally failed to comprehend.
They have been so long accustomed to parody the rhetorical elation of
our third-rate political speakers, and to represent this as a universal
American characteristic, that they signally failed to estimate the
genuine emotion with which it is never connected. When the cherished
barbarism of slaveholders arose and threatened our