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A significant Parallel.

--A Liverpool (Eng.) paper, in commenting upon the civil war in America, makes a pertinent reference to the opinion entertained by some of the wisest of British statesmen about the revolutionary war. It also urges upon the British Government the importance of taking measures to induce the United States to recognize the Southern Confederacy. The writer says:

‘ "It must come at last to this. We can see no other solution of the difficulty. The Northern States have the power to prolong the war indefinitely. The Southern, if defeated in the field, cannot be finally subdued. The folly of the contest thus waged is consequently as apparent to us in England as the folly of that contest which we waged with our American brethren towards the close of the last century was to some of our then wisest statesmen."

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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 15, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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