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r. Seward and the opinion of the inhabitants of New York were still keeping up their spirits by big words still boasting that England had too many interests at stake to risk a quarrel with the United States, and comforting themselves with the braggart notion that "Canada is within two days railway journey of half a million of armed men, and has a frontier that can offer no resistance to an invading force." The news had only just reached them that England had heard of the exploit of Commodore Wilkes. It will be remembered that at the first moment it was received with some astonishment, but with great calmness. The primary impulse here was, not to bluster, but to inquire. The people of New York, judging too much by their own habits, and delighted to find us so calm, telegraphed at once that "the effect of the news in England is not so unfavorable as was expected." In this fool's paradise they had yet to be disturbed. They had yet to learn that the more calmly and deliberately a
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ngland want with Mason and Slidell? It was a surrender of the claim of the right to seize them on board her ships, under her ring, that she demanded, and yet this is the very thing that Mr. Seward pertinaciously refuses, and he only condemns Captain Wilkes because he did not enforce this asserted right with greater severity against the offending neutral ship. Why, sir, upon the principles of this dispatch, if a merchant vessel, as at first intended, had been employed to carry these men out frobears to the shores of England, there to be received in triumph and with shouts of exultation as martyrs and heroes, and with the gustos of the people of England and as the proteges of their ministers, the very men who but for the rash act of Captain Wilkes, and the still more rash endorsement of the Administration and the country, would six weeks ago have been quietly landed from a private ship in quiet security as rebels and refugees. All Europe echoes now with their names. All Europe will r