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Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one on all the earth, and with her on our side we need not fear the world.
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Reid warns of the potential threat posed by Great Britain while advocating for a strong alliance with them.
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Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.