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he right of the mother country. But the presence of that army in Peru created just the same danger to the other colonies that the presence of a Federal army of 200,000 men in Virginia creates for Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas. If Peru had been conquered, that army would have passed on to attack the other revolted possessions of Spain, and in fact, the plan of attacking them in detail was the only one which afforded any solid chance of success. The real equivalent, in the case of North America, for the action we took in the matter of the Spanish colonies, would be the recognition of the Confederate Government, waiving, as of course we should waive, the question of the frontier line. But, says Historicus, that war had lasted as many years as the present war has lasted months. Well, what of that? If the Confederate States have achieved in twenty months what it took the Spanish colonies twenty years to accomplish, is that any reason why they should be denied the privileges to