Lowell depicted Southerners very unfavorably in his second collection of The Biglow Papers but, by 1865, admitted that Southerners were "guilty only of weakness" and, by 1868, said that he sympathized with Southerners and their viewpoint on slavery.
Lowell beskrev sydstatare på ett negativt sätt i sin andra samling av The Biglow Papers men erkände, omkring 1865, att sydstatarna "endast var skyldiga till svaghet" och 1868 menade han att han sympatiserade med sydstatarna och deras syn på slaveri.