6 READJUSTMENT AFTER WAR 



during hostilities had confirmed this feeling in 

 the class among whom it prevailed, and the 

 feeling was manifest in the negotiations by 

 which the war was brought to an end. 



It would indeed be a serious error to as 

 sume that the feeling here referred to was very 

 general in England. Party divisions, though 

 dimmed by the national solidarity that was de 

 veloped by the exigencies of the long war with 

 France, still marked the line of cleavage in po 

 litical thinking, and the Whigs, for decades in 

 a hopeless opposition, still bore the tradition 

 of admiration and pride concerning the branch 

 of the English race which Tory policy had sev 

 ered from the parent stem. Conspicuous fea 

 tures of American constitutional practice were 

 the goal of Whig aspiration and this fact tended 

 to produce tolerance of other features that were 

 abhorrent. Thoroughgoing democracy such as 

 was manifest in the United States was no more 

 attractive to the Whigs than to the Tories. 

 The Tories, however, feared it, while the Whigs 

 looked indulgently upon it as a pathetic error 

 that would in time correct itself. To the Tory 

 the American people was a brawling, disrepu 

 table loafer, who had disgraced his family by 

 plundering it and had by his character and 



