txx1v.] ON LORD BROUGHAM-—ON SECESSION. 849

Inconvenience of a sectarian organ,

1861.
Xr. 5”

“ Midhurst, October 17,1861. (To S. Lucas.)—I said in one
of my notes to you that the Star should not appear the organ
of a sect, I will give you an illustration & propos of this remark,
 In an otherwise excellent and tolerant article on Lord
John yesterday, you bring in Bright and myself at the close
to sting him by our contrast. ‘This is the kind of remark
which stamps your paper as the organ of a strait sect which
tolerates nothing but what comes from your own preachers.
You remember the anecdote I gave you of a person I
travelled with in the railway carriage from Guildford to
London, when he bought the Telegraph and I the Star. He
remarked, ‘I don’t like the Star, it is so intolerant; it
never admits anybody to be right but Bright and Cobden.’
I should like to make a bargain with you in the interest of
your paper, not to let my name appear in your leaders
(unless to find fault with me) for two vears.”

Tocqueville on the right of Secession.
« June 22, 1861. (To W. Hargreaves, Hsq.)—1 am glad
to see that as yet there is no serious fighting in America.
Until there has been a bloody collision, one may hope
there will be none. I have been reading Tocqueville’s Democracy
 on America. In his chapter on the influence of
slavery his sagacity is, as it frequently is, quite prophetic.
He seems to regard it as the chief danger to the Union,
less from the rival interests it creates, than from the incompatibility
 of manners which it produces. It is singular
boo that he takes the Southern view of the right of secession.
He says, ‘The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement
 of the States; and in uniting together they have not
forfoited their nationality, nor have they been reduced to
one and the same people. If one of the States chose to
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