The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

ENGLISH OPINION ON THE AMERICAN WAR. TWO PICTURES. THE FREEDMAN'S STORY. THE ORIGIN OF THE GYPSIES. PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS. COURT-CARDS. A LANDSCAPE PAINTER. RIVIERA DI PONENTE. DOCTOR JOHNS. THE CHIMNEY-CORNER FOR 1866. GRIFFITH GAUNT; OR, JEALOUSY. THREE MONTHS AMONG THE RECONSTRUCTIONISTS. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. The great events which took place in the United States between the first election of President Lincoln and the accession of President Johnson excited an amount of party-spirit in England greater than I recollect in connection with any other non-English occurrences, and fairly proportionate even to that supreme form of party-spirit which the same events produced in the States themselves,the party-spirit which, in hostile and closing ranks, clenches teeth and sets life at nought, seeing no alternative, no possibility, save this one only, to carry its point or die. "I am a Northerner," and "I am a Southerner," were, during the war, phrases as common on Englishmen's lips as "I am a Liberal" or "a Conservative," "I am a Protectionist" (this, indeed, has about become obsolete) or "a Free-Trader." It would be very far from correct to say that this party-spirit has yet subsided in England; highly important questions, personal and political, remain in ample abundance to keep it lively; but we have at any rate reached a point at which one may try to discuss the past phases of our partisanship, not in the temper of a partisan. My endeavor in the following pages will be to do this,very imperfectly, beyond a doubt, but, as far as it goes, candidly and without disguise. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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