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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Legislature of Virginia. (search)
don Times had acknowledged that our power on the ocean was not to be despised. England "had done this once, and paid the cost of her thoughtlessness." Demonstrations hostile to the United States were made in some of the English ports, and the naval reserve corps were volunteering for active service in case of a war with this country. It was reported that Mr. Adams, United States Minister in London, regarded his recall as inevitable. In the meantime the English reformers, with Cobden and Bright at their head, had shown a disposition for peace, fearing that a with this country would result in rendering the people of Great Britain mere helpless at the feet of the Tory aristocracy. The British manufacturers and traders were greatly alarmed at the prospect of a war with America, and the reports which we give this morning relative to the excited feeling existing on the subject, in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sacmeld, and other centres of industrial profit,