A sensitive people, conscious of their power, are more at ease under a great wrong wholly unatoned than under the restraint of a settlement which satisfies neither their ideas of justice nor their grave sense of the grievance they have sustained.
Grant reflects on how a proud nation may prefer unresolved wrongs over a settlement that fails to meet their sense of justice.
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