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The appeal was spurned; and, in the face of its almost godlike gentleness, they who already gloried in their anticipated saturnalia of blood inhumanly and falsely stigmatized it as a declaration of war.
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Creswell criticizes the response to a peaceful appeal, which was mischaracterized as a declaration of war.
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