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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
the news of the Trent affair, that if war should come, Ireland would be found on the side of America. This declaration was received with the most vehement applause. and others less conspicuous; while Lord Brougham, who for sixty years was an opponent of slavery, and was known to be thoroughly conversant with the structure of our Government, and an admirer of its practical workings, following the lead of the spirit of his class, took sides with the slaveholders, and said most unkind words. Kinglake, the eminent author and member of Parliament, announced, as a principle which he had always enforced, that in the policy of states a sentiment never can govern ; that ideas of right, justice, philanthropy, or common humanity should have no influence in the dealings of one nation with another, because they are almost always governed by their great interests, which he thought to be a sound principle; while Thomas Carlyle, the cold Gothicizer of the English language, dismissed the whole matter