Though Lord Brougham, a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, to select only one example, most profoundly sympathized with the abolitionists of the North; yet, in spite of all his natural affinities, the simple facts of history constrained him to adopt the Southern view of the Constitution. Hence, in his work on Political Philosophy, he says: “It is plainly impossible to consider the Constitution which professes to govern this whole union, this federacy of states, as anything other than a treaty.”(vol.
