" But after
the manner in which such a well-informed, modest, humane man as we would
emphatically credit as an American _gentleman_ might speak of six months
in England, so has Mr. Dicey spoken of his six months in the Federal
States.
And, at this present time, far better than all curious delineations or
"stereographic" descriptions are the sober testimonies concerning us
which Mr. Dicey offers to his countrymen. To such loyal Americans as
these volumes may reach they will give a heart not to be found in Dr.
Russell's pictorial neutrality, in the dashing effects of popular Mr.
Trollope, nor even--making all allowance for the sanative influence of
counter-irritation--in the weekly malignity of that _ex_-Moral Minstrel
whom the London "Times" has sent to the aid of our insurgent
slave-masters. For, instead of gloating over objections and picking out
what petty enigmas may not be readily soluble, Mr. Dicey has a manly,
English way of accepting the preponderant evidence concerning the crisis
he came to study.
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