Chapter nine, note 16, of the author's The Liberal Catholic Movement in England: The "Rambler" and its Contributors, 1848-1864, which Burns and Oates (London) published in 1962. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Acton, "Political Causes of the American Revolution," Rambler, n.s., V (May 1861), pp. 17-61; reprinted in Essays on Church and State, pp. 291-338. See A to S, 2 May 1861, Gasquet, Lord Acton and his Circle, pp. 188-89. Acton's letters to Döllinger, contemplating the possibility of war between Britain and the Northern States, reveal a distinctly martial spirit.
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