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“FEELINGS OF ALARM”: CONSERVATIVE CRITICISM OF THE PRINCIPLE OF NATIONALITY IN MID-VICTORIAN BRITAIN*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2016

RICHARD SMITTENAAR
RICHARD SMITTENAAR*
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History Department, Queen Mary, University of London E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article is an account of the mid-Victorian conservative reaction to the increasing prominence of the notion of nationality in British debates on European affairs. Conservatives perceived the idea of nationality as a threat, which they tried to deflect by deploying three sets of arguments. They attempted to marginalize the notion by reframing nationality as neither a valuable nor a fundamental aspect of political life; they argued that the sentiment of nationality increased aggression in international affairs and was a threat to the European order; and they argued that nationality was often incompatible with constitutional liberty and a proper patriotism, thereby presenting liberals’ support for nationality as inconsistent with their own values. This conservative rejection and problematization of nationality in mid-Victorian Britain has been absent from existing scholarly work, which has focused on the qualified acceptance of the notion by Victorian liberals and Edwardian conservatives.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , August 2017 , pp. 365 - 391
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This research was partially supported by a scholarship from Queen Mary, University of London. The author is grateful to Georgios Varouxakis, the editors and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions.

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29 Swayne, “Greece and Italy,” 77. G. C. Swayne (1818–92) had been assistant master of Harrow from 1851 to 1855 and worked as curate, chaplain and essayist.

30 Atkinson, “Italy,” 350–51; see also 353–4, 361, 365; Cecil, “Lord Castlereagh,” 221–2, 229–30; Forsyth, “Italy,” 147. J. B. Atkinson (1822–86) frequently wrote on art and aesthetics for Blackwood's.

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38 Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein II,” 503, 513, 516; Oliphant, “The European Situation,” 120, 122–3. See also Wilson, “Count Bismarck, Prussia, and Pan-Teutonism,” 78. Laurence Oliphant (1829–88), traveller and author, had connections of patronage to Palmerston and Russell, which ended with Oliphant's criticism of their handling of the Danish duchies affair. Later in life he would seek and gain the patronage of Disraeli and Salisbury.

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40 Wilson, “Prevost-Paradol and Napoleon III,” 386. See also Wilson, “The Third French Republic,” 362, 371.

41 Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 545; and Swayne, “Eavesdropping at Biarritz,” 195. See also Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 252–3; Dasent, “The War between France and Germany,” 293–4, 300, 312; Gleig, G. R., “The Great Collapse,” Blackwood's Magazine, 108 (Nov. 1870), 641–56, at 654Google Scholar; Gleig, , “Why Is Prussia Victorious?”, Blackwood's Magazine, 108 (Dec. 1870), 657–72, at 662Google Scholar; Hamley, “Thoughts Suggested by the War,” 784; Lever, C. J., “Cornelius O'Dowd,” Blackwood's Magazine, 109 (May 1871), 580–85, at 582Google Scholar; Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein,” 394, 396; Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein II,” 503; Oliphant, “The European Situation,” 122; Patterson, “The European Crisis,” 130; Patterson, “The Position of the Ministry,” 641; Wilson, “Prevost-Paradol and Napoleon III,” 383; Wilson, “Count Bismarck, Prussia, and Pan-Teutonism,” 73–4, 78, 81–2, 90; Wilson, “The Third French Republic,” 368.

42 See e.g. Bagehot, “The Gains of the World”; and Dicey, “The New Germany,” 483, on “the passion for unity . . . north [and] south of the Alps.”

43 Harvie, The Lights of Liberalism, 98; Kent, Brains and Numbers, 24; and Parry, The Politics of Patriotism, 233.

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48 Wilson, “Count Bismarck, Prussia, and Pan-Teutonism,” 88.

49 Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 243, 244. Compare, for instance, Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 243–69 on established practice and treaties, with 271–3 on claims of nationality. See also Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein,” 385–6, 390–91, 396; Patterson, “The European Crisis,” 128–30.

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61 Aytoun, “France and Central Italy,” 253. W. E. Aytoun (1813–65) was a Scottish lawyer and author.

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75 Wilson, “The Third French Republic,” 359–60.

76 Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 238–42, 247–8, 260.

77 Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 551–2, 555–6.

78 The Globe, Nov. 21 (1870), 4.

79 Ibid.

80 Ibid.

81 See e.g. Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 238–9, 262, 270–71; Dasent, “The War between France and Germany,” 295–6, 312–14.

82 See e.g. Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 553.

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89 Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 547.

90 See also Lever, “Cornelius O'Dowd” (Oct 1870), 510–11; and Patterson, “The European Crisis,” 128, arguing that in the past, when “the modern principle of nationality was unknown . . . populations readily united or parted according to any changes in the persons or fortunes of their rules [sic].”

91 Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 237–40; Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 548–9; Patterson, “The European Crisis,” 120.

92 Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 549–50.

93 Ibid., 544, 551–5; Dasent, “The War between France and Germany,” 309–11, 318; Gleig, “Why Is Prussia Victorious?”, 663; Lever, “Cornelius O'Dowd” (Oct 1870), 511–12; Wilson, “The Third French Republic,” 370.

94 For the crucial role of the sentiment of nationality in sustaining animosity, compare Cecil's pessimistic forecast of German–French relations, taking this sentiment into account, with Hamley's more hopeful predictions, which did not discuss nationality. Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 551; Hamley, “New Year's Musings,” 255.

95 Lord Acton, a cosmopolitan Whiggish Catholic, argued that the principle of nationality did not further the end of liberty and—here diverging from conservatives—would jeopardize both the progress of civilization and the “civilized” patriotic attachment to the “political nation,” replaced by the “animal” attachment to the “race.” Acton, J. D., “Nationality,” Home and Foreign Review, 1 (July 1862), 1–25, at 15, 17, 19–20Google Scholar.

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98 Varouxakis, “‘Patriotism,’ ‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Humanity’,” 110.

99 On these institutions see e.g. Mandler, The English National Character, 7, 15, 123; and Parry, “Patriotism,” 85.

100 Swayne, “Greece and Italy,” 87–8. See also Atkinson, “Italy,” 350–51, 355, 361, 364; Aytoun, “France and Central Italy,” 247–8; Cecil, “France and Europe,” 4, 27; Forsyth, “Italy,” 154, 171; Patterson, “Italy and France,” 525; Tremenheere, “Napoleonism and Italy,” 268; White, “Italy.”

101 Atkinson, “Italy,” 361.

102 Cecil, “France and Europe,” 4.

103 Patterson, “The European Crisis,” 120.

104 Ibid., 121–4.

105 Cecil, “The Danish Duchies,” 271; see also 270–73.

106 Ibid., 239 and passim; see also Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein,” 391–2; Patterson, “The European Crisis,” 128–32.

107 Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein,” 388, 396; Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein II,” 504; see also Cecil, “The Terms of Peace,” 548; Lever, “Cornelius O'Dowd” (Sept. 1869), 362.

108 H. B. E. Frere, “The Turkish Empire,” Quarterly Review, 142 (Oct. 1876), 480–512, at 483; Craik and Smith, “National Interests and National Morality,” 277; W. G. Palgrave, “The Revival of Turkey,” Quarterly Review, 146 (Oct. 1878), 549–94, at 550–51; W. Smith, “The Eastern Question,” Quarterly Review, 142 (Oct. 1876), 544–86, at 555–8.

109 This strife was not primarily the result of a general incompatibility between Muslims and Christians, but rather of the different local factions trying to increase their influence. See e.g. W. Smith and E. B. Cowell, “Turkey,” Quarterly Review, 143 (April 1877), 573–600, at 576–8.

110 Cowell, H., “The New Year,” Blackwood's Magazine, 121 (Jan. 1877), 108–26, at 108Google Scholar; Frere, “The Turkish Empire,” 494–6; Hamley, “The Storm in the East IX,” 242–3; Northcote, “Lord Hartington's Resolutions,” 359; Palgrave, “The Revival of Turkey,” 550–51; Smith, “The Eastern Question,” 555–8; Smith and Cowell, “Turkey,” 584.

111 Parry, The Politics of Patriotism.

112 Mill, “Vindication of the French Revolution of February 1848,” 348; and from 1859, quoted in Varouxakis, Liberty Abroad, 86.

113 See e.g. Oliphant, “A Letter from Schleswig-Holstein,” 385–6.

114 Green, The Crisis of Conservatism, 15–16, 78, 117, 130, 159; Jones, Victorian Political Thought, 76–77; Stapleton, Political Intellectuals, 41, 51. Green, The Crisis of Conservatism, 160, notes that during the Edwardian era “a distinctive brand of Conservative Collectivism” also became established.

115 See e.g. Saturday Review, 25 June 1859, 767; 17 May 1862, 555; 14 March 1863, 341–2; 23 July 1870, 97–8; 8 Oct. 1870, 453.

116 Jones, Victorian Political Thought, 76–7; Mandler, The English National Character, 60, 126, 132–3.