in
giving quickly. But, whatever trifling details might be subjected to
criticism, the total impression of what Mr. Dicey has written bears
honorable testimony to the accuracy of his observation, as well as to
his powers of comparison and judgment.

As has been already remarked, we cannot be blind to the fact that our
only supporters in England are those men who recognize at the heart of
our contest that genuine principle of Liberty which is not to be limited
to caste or to race. And it is only by hastening to justify their
confidence that we can win to our cause the great people they address.
If we cannot gain the national sympathy of England, we must do without
the true sympathy of any nation. It was, indeed, remarked by De
Tocqueville, that, "in the eyes of the English, the cause which is most
useful to England is always the cause of justice." But the rare insight
of the philosopher assigns the phenomenon, not to a political
Machiavelism, but to a "laudable desire to connect the actions of one's
country with something more stable than interest." The English have a
peculiar gift of fixing their whole attention upon certain traits or
single circumstances which they desire to see. We doubt not that a
portion of their sympathy with the energy and endurance of those in arms
against their country is estimable according to its light. But as the
dignity of our mission in this struggle becomes more and more apparent,
the moral intelligence of England will be forced to unite itself with
the Government of the United States. Let that day come when it will,
posterity will remember its obligations to those Englishmen who did so
much to avert the hideous calamity of a war between the two liberal
powers of the world. And to us of this present generation it is grateful
to know that our brave and generous young men have not died wholly
unrecognized in the land of their ancestors. Mill, Ellison,
Hughes,--what need to name the rest?--have stood up to report them and
their cause aright to the unsatisfied: in which roll of the honorable
and honored we are glad to write the name of Edward Dicey.

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_Hospital Transports_. A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and
Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862. Compiled
and published at the Request of the Sanitary Commission. Boston: Ticknor
and Fields.

If pure benevolence was ever organized and utilized into beneficence,
the name