Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in chapter 35, page 501 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
...l, the Confederate commissioner in Europe.
It is nothing less than a cry of despair.
Complaining bitterly of the attitude of foreign nations while the South is fighting the battles of England and France against the North, he asks: Are they determined never to recognize the Southern Confederacy
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