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Excerpt from The American Question The Americans feel aggrieved at the attitude of England towards their country in the day of her trial. They had expected from her sympathy and encouragement; but for the most part the tone of her criticism has been derisive, supercilious, and patronising; and, instead of encouragement, she has uttered diatribes against the war as "internecine," "suicidal," "revolting," "disgusting," "wanton," "wicked," and "inhuman." Failure has been prophesied from the first. The Americans have been discouraged from endeavouring to heal the wounds inflicted on their country by treason. No general voice of cheer has called out, urging them to "unthread the eye of rude rebellion." They are earnestly adjured to compromise with it, to conciliate it, to bow down before it; they are told that it is impossible to subdue it. They have homilies on the horrors of war, as if the sword of England had never been unsheathed. They hear that, "bad as the institution (of slavery) is, civil war is worse;" that emancipation is an absurdity and an impossibility; that it is vain to hope to subjugate and hold the South by force; that the American "Union is a wreck;" and the "United States of North America have ceased to be." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.