It was war in disguise --not declared, only because the United-States Government could not afford to multiply its enemies, and England felt that there was still uncertainty enough in the result to caution her against assuming so great a risk.
Blaine reflects on the nature of war and diplomacy, particularly regarding the United States and England.
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Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
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