W.H. Russell, the famous war correspondent of the Crimea, was summoned
to London and, according to his own story, upon being given papers,
clippings, and correspondence (largely articles from the _New York
Herald_) supporting the right of the South to secede, hastily took his
departure for America to report upon the situation[78]. He sailed from
Queenstown on March 3, and arrived in New York on March 16. At last on
March 12, the _Times_ took positive ground in favour of the justice of
the Southern cause.
"No treachery has been at work to produce the disruption, and
the principles avowed are such as to command the sympathies
of every free and enlightened people. Such are the widely
different auspices under which the two rival Republics start
into existence. But mankind will not ultimately judge these
things by sympathies and antipathies; they will be greatly
swayed by their own interest, and the two Republics must be
weighed, not by their professions or their previous history,
but by the conduct they pursue and the position they maintain
among the Powers of the earth. Their internal institutions
are their own affair; their financial and political
arrangements are emphatically ours. Brazil is a slave-holding
Empire, but by its good faith and good conduct it has
contrived to establish for itself a place in the hierarchy of
nations far superior to that of many Powers which are free
from this domestic contamination.
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