...s no allies, and, among all first-class powers, not one earnest friend. Would it not be a blunder for even British freetraders to promote our acceptance of a policy that would be sure to reduce the United States to the rank of a second-rate power? Mr. Gladstone bestows lofty praise upon the unrivalled strength of our country by an eloquent recital of the American advantages over all nations, of our immen...