Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Europe” in chapter 8, page 82 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
... were early misled into some capital blunders.
Among, these was the passage of the acts of Congress, famous as the Alien and Sedition laws.
The aliens, whom the political tempests then convulsing Europe had drifted in large numbers to our shores, were in good part turbulent, restless adventurers, of desperate fortunes, who sought to embroil
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