CHAPTER V 

 THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND ITS EFFECTS 



DESPITE repeated and notorious demonstra 

 tions of their error, idealists will doubtless con 

 tinue in the future to maintain as in the past 

 that an omelette can be made without break 

 ing any eggs. Many of the good people who 

 preached ardent abolitionism in the name of 

 humanity were equally devoted to the propa 

 ganda of universal peace. The four years of 

 desperate war that brought about the extinc 

 tion of slavery in the United States presented 

 awkward problems of comparative humanity, 

 and vexed the spirits of all the English-speaking 

 people in whom hostility to slavery had be 

 come strong. Ill feeling toward Great Britain 

 was manifested in both the contending sections 

 in America very early in the war. Ill feeling 

 toward both sections was manifested quite as 

 early in Great Britain. The balance among 

 these various emotions at any particular time 

 depended to a great extent upon the relation 

 then seeming to exist between slavery and the 



objects of the war. 



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