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South. When Webster made his reply to Hayne, 

 there was a growing sentiment of Union for him to 

 appeal to, and stronger at the North than at the 

 South. When the Civil War came, that senti- 

 ment was strong enough to sadden the heart of 

 many a Southerner whose sense of duty made him 

 a secessionist ; at the North it had waxed so pow- 

 erful that men were ready to die for it, as the 

 Mussulman for his Prophet or the Cavalier for 

 his King. Thus sentiment can quickly and stur- 

 dily grow when favoured by habits of thought origi- 

 nally dictated by self-interest. Obviously a state 

 of things in favour of which a strong sentiment is 

 once enlisted has its chances of permanence greatly 

 increased. I therefore hope and believe that in 

 the deliberate public opinion above mentioned sen- 

 timent \vill by and by have a larger place than it 

 has at present. As feelings of dislike between the 

 peoples of two countries are always unintelligent 

 and churlish, so feelings of friendship are sure to 

 be broadening and refining. The abiding senti- 

 ment of Scotchmen toward England was for many 

 centuries immeasurably more rancorous than any 

 Yankee schoolboy ever gave vent to on the Fourth 

 of July. There is no reason why the advent of 

 the twenty-first century should not find the friend- 

 ship between the United States and Great Britain 



