It is difficult to account for the manifest irritation of its tone except upon the ground that Lord John Russell saw in a possible reconciliation, between North and South, something that threatened the interest or jarred upon the sympathy of the British Government.
Blaine speculates on the British government's irritation regarding potential reconciliation between the North and South during the Civil War.
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