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Any reasonable man, looking at the condition of affairs, could not doubt that the public recognition of the independence of the Confederacy by England and France, was a foregone and rapidly approaching conclusion.
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Blaine expresses his belief that the recognition of the Confederacy by foreign powers was imminent.
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