But he is obliged to consider that in the case supposed, the destruction of our commerce will probably amount to a naval war, waged by a portion at least of the British nation against the government and people of the United States--a war tolerated although not declared or avowed by the British Government.
Blaine discusses the potential consequences of a naval conflict between the United States and Britain.
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The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
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