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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
to maintain itself against a nation that had once consolidated the gigantic resources of a quarter of the globe. A little later, Earl Russell, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in an afterdinner speech at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, declared that the struggle in America was on the one side for empire, and on the other for power, and not for the great principles of human liberty, and for the life of the Republic, for which the Government was really contending. A little later still, the Earl of Shrewsbury, speaking with hope for his class, at the old city of Worcester, said that he saw in America the trial of Democracy, and its failure. He believed the dissolution of the Union to be inevitable, and that men there before him would live to see an aristocracy established in America. In the same hour, Sir John Pakington, formerly a cabinet minister, and then a member of Parliament, told the same hearers, that, from President Lincoln, downward, there was not a man in America who would venture