"Any reasonable creature may know, if willing, that the North hates the Negro, and that until it was convenient to make a pretence that sympathy with him was the cause of the war, it hated the abolitionists and derided them up hill and down dale… As to Secession being Rebellion, it is distinctly possible by state papers that Washington considered it no such thing – that Massachusetts, now loudest against it, has itself asserted its right to secede, again and again."-- Said to be made by Charles Dickens
I would love to see where Dickens made that statement.
Dickens’ opinions on the matter should not count for much. Patriotic Americans have never appreciated know-it-all foreigners butting into America’s internal affairs. Of course the term “patriotic Americans” does not include the Confederates who would have welcomed any sort of European invasion if it would have allowed them to keep their precious institution of slavery.