Conscience does make cowards of us all; and Great Britain, foreseeing the possibility of being herself engaged in a European war, was in a position to dread lest her ill intentions and her misdeed in the time of our civil struggle should return to plague her.
Blaine reflects on the moral implications of war and how Britain's past actions during the American Civil War could haunt them.
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