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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 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

At one town only, Oldham, described by The Index as "the most 'Southern' town in Lancashire," was a meeting held at all comparable with the great demonstrations easily staged by pro-Northern friends.

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

The Northern British Consuls on the other hand took an astonishingly pro-Northern view of the whole situation.

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

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