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The News was strongly pro-Northern, and Godkin furnished the facts which rendered its leaders sound and instructive as well as sympathetic.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

But on January 30, 1864, Mason Jones, a pro-Northern speaker in the Free Trade Hall at Manchester, asked why Southern public meetings had come to a halt.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass

But literary England in general, was slow to express itself with conviction, though Robert Browning, by April, 1861, was firmly determined in his pro-Northern sentiment.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass

Such expressions gained nothing for the Conservative cause; they were too evidently the result of alarm at the progress of Radical and pro-Northern sentiment.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass

Thus a servile insurrection was early and frequently an argument which pro-Northern friends were compelled to meet.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass