his friend. The institution which the "Times" so fiercely defended on
this occasion against a look which threatened it with alteration is
vital and sacred in the eyes of the aristocracy, but is not vital or
sacred in the eyes of the whole English nation. Again, the "Times" hates
Garibaldi; and its hatred, generally half smothered, broke out in a loud
cry of exultation when the hero fell, as it hoped forever, at
Aspromonte. But the English people idolize Garibaldi, and receive him
with a burst of enthusiasm unexampled in fervor. The English people love
Garibaldi, and Garibaldi's name is equally dear to all American hearts.
Is not this--let me ask in passing--a proof that there is a bond of
sympathy, after all, between the English people and you, and that, if as
a nation we are divided from you, it is not by a radical estrangement,
but by some cloud of error which will in time pass away?

The wealth of the "Times," the high position which it has held since
the period when it was the great Liberal journal, the clever writing and
the early intelligence which its money and its secret connections with
public men enable it to command, give it a circulation and an influence
beyond the class whose interests it represents. But it has been thrust
from a large part of its dominion by the cheap London and local press.
It is exceeded in circulation more than twofold by the London
"Telegraph," a journal which, though it has been against the war, has, I
think, by no means shown in its leading articles the same spirit of
hostility to the American people. The London "Star," which is strongly
Federal, is also a journal of wide circulation. The "Daily News" is a
high-priced paper, circulating among the same class as the "Times"; its
circulation is comparatively small, but it is on the increase, and the
journal, I have reason to believe, is prosperous. The Manchester
"Examiner and Times," again,--a great local paper of the North of
England,--nearly equals the London "Times" in circulation, and is
favorable to your cause. I live under the dominion of the London
"Times," and I will not deny that it is a great power of evil. It will
be a great power of evil indeed, if it succeeds in producing a fatal
estrangement between two kindred nations. But no one who knows England,
especially the northern part of England, in which Liberalism prevails,
would imagine the voice of the "Times" to be that of the English people.

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