Opinion," p. 40.] [Footnote 114: Godkin had joined the staff of the _Daily News_ in 1853. During the Crimea War he was special war correspondent. He had travelled extensively in America in the late 'fifties and was thoroughly well informed. From 1862 to 1865 his letters to the _Daily News_ were of great value in encouraging the British friends of the North. In 1865 Godkin became editor of the New York _Nation_.] [Footnote 115: W.E. Forster said of her, "It was Harriet Martineau alone who was keeping English opinion about America on the right side through the Press." The _Daily News_ Jubilee Edition, p. 46.] [Footnote 116: James, _William Wetmore Story and His Friends_, Vol. II, p. 92.] [Footnote 117: Moncure D. Conway's _Autobiography_ asserts that two-thirds of the English authors "espoused the Union cause, some of them actively--Professor Newman, Mill, Tom Hughes, Sir Charles Lyell, Huxley, Tyndall, Swinburne, Lord Houghton, Cairns, Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, Leslie Stephen, Allingham, the Rossettis," Vol. I, p. 406. This is probably true of ultimate, though not of initial, interest and attitude. But for many writers their published works give no clue to their opinions on the Civil War--as for example the works of Dickens, Thackeray, William Morris, or Ruskin. See Duffus, "English Opinion," p. 103.] [Footnote 118: Russell, _My Diary_, I, p. 398.] [Footnote 119: The _Times_, May 30, 1861.] [Footnote 120: _Westminster Review_, Vol. 76, pp. 487-509, October, 1861.] [Footnote 121: Bright to Sumner, September 6, 1861. Cited in Rhodes, _United States_, Vol. III, p. 509.] [Footnote 122: A meeting held in Edinburgh, May 9, 1861, declared that anti-slavery England ought never to recognize the South. Reported in _Liberator_, May 31, 1861.] [Footnote 123: F.O., Am., Vol. 762, Nos. 141 and 142.] [Footnote 124: _Ibid._, No. 146.] [Footnote 125: See _ante_, pp. 50-51.] [Footnote 126: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1862, _Lords_, Vol. XXV. "Correspondence on Civil War in the United States." Nos. 24, 25 and 26.]