...te capable of making at the close of the war, when we were launching our invulnerable iron-clads as fast as our machine shops and ship-yards could turn them out. It is not improbable that neither France nor England would have taken so fierce a stand if the Trent affair had happened in the latter part of 1864. Whatever may have been Mr. Seward's opinions on the subject of the Trent matter, and th...