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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Her Blessed Majesty, the Queen, states in her speech at the opening of the British Parliament, February 8th, that she "remains steadfastly neutral between the contending parties. " This is, of course, the highest, as it is the latest, exposition of British policy. It is not alone the Queen personally that speaks, but the Government, of which she is the mere mouthpiece. We needed not this new assurance of" steadfast neutrality," nor do we see any motive for its "steadfast" reiteration but profound solicitude to avoid the penalty for her "steadfast" influence in promoting and in keeping alive the war on this continent, which it is possible Great Britain may be called upon one day to pay. Among the many evidences of profound sagacity which Washington, the greatest man that ever lived, gave to the world, was his thorough and abiding distrust of the British Government. It may have suited the policy of those demagogues who assailed his Administration to represent him as a symp