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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late affair in Hardy county--Fuller particulars of the capture of the Yankee wagon train. (search)
England and the Federal Government The lately published correspondence between Seward and Earl Russell shows John Bull apparently in great trepidation of Yankee prowess. Never has the old gentleman been so successfully bullied. Is he getting weak and nervous? Or is he in his dotage? Far from it, we think. To use one of the slang phrases of his own cockneys, he is a remarkably "deep old file. " He is preserving a very "strict neutrality," very strict, indeed, which consists in helping both combatants, as far as consistent with his own interests, to destroy each other equally. He leans to the Northern side apparently, and to the Southern side under the rose. He must keep on good terms with the North on account of privateers and Canada; but he is very well satisfied that the South cannot be subjugated, though he expects her to be seriously crippled. He would prefer that the North should conquer the South and abolish slavery, for that would ruin both countries; but, as this