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A Triangular fight.
As the war advances the two American belligerents are beginning to discover the important fact that there are three instead of two parties to the fight, Great Britain being the third party, and by no means the least formidable.
Without a declaration of war, and adhering rigidly to the forms of peace, she is, in reality, one of the chief combatants in this struggle, and is beginning to be recognized as such by the two American combatants.
Her blows, it must be conceded, are equally distributed between the two, and this she calls neutrality.
She furnishes Irishmen to fight Confederates, and privateers to gall Yankees.
On the land, she is the Yankee ally; on the sea, the auxiliary of the Confederates.
With one hand, she strikes at Confederate armies; with the other, at Yankee commerce.
In fact this is her war, only with consummate address she is waging it by turning the arms of those she equally hates against each other, and assisting and encouraging both