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ions of our minds — had they been aware of the extent and depth of the contempt with which we have regarded their doings — it could scarcely have failed to modify their conduct of the civil war. Nor, as a question of policy when we would avoid war, do we think it advisable to dwell on our pacific disposition as the key-note. To profess a disinclination to fight, is not the best way to deal with a bully. Even were it true that we would sacrifice everything for peace and that Messrs. Bright, Cobden and Jos. Peace were the great representatives of English feeling, it would be impolitic to say so? But when we are giving proof of our readiness for war on sufficient occasion, there seems more than ever reason to regret that we had not given the Northern Americans the word more plainly before the blow. They have seen us solicitous to observe a neutrality, the operation of which was unfavorable, even unfair to the South. They have seen us foregoing our undoubted right to recognize the Sou