Correspondence On the Present Relations Between Great Britain And the United States of America
Correspondence On the Present Relations Between Great Britain And the United States of America
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I must therefore, my dear friend, consider the im- putation that our President or minister behaved with disingenuousness or the cunning of a low attorney, as impUed in your questions, or that there was a want of gentlemaidy frankness, or of promptitude to redress an admitted wrong, as whoUy unjustified by the facts ; with which, therefore, I cannot but think you were not familiar while penning them.
But how stands the accoimt of England with us on the score of gentlemanly bearing and conduct ?
...At the same time, and I beUeve on the same day, .when the above-named despatch of Mr. Seward was written, your Ministry^ in entire ignorance whether there was any ground to suppose that the slightest wrong or indignity had been authorized by ours^ or even intentionally committed by Capt Wilkes^ and with- out waiting a moment for possible opportunity for disavowal or explanation^ were inditing a despatch to Lord Lyons, demanding^ in absolute terms^ the surren- der of the traitors as an ultimatum, and an apology for their seizure (terms required of inferiors or sub- ordinates in position, and never among equals, at least until after opportunity for a mutual understanding and the failure of efforts to secure one), — a procedure between two civilized nations^ it is believed^ wholly without parallel in history ; and they accompanied this GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I must therefore, my dear friend, consider the im- putation that our President or minister behaved with disingenuousness or the cunning of a low attorney, as impUed in your questions, or that there was a want of gentlemaidy frankness, or of promptitude to redress an admitted wrong, as whoUy unjustified by the facts ; with which, therefore, I cannot but think you were not familiar while penning them.
But how stands the accoimt of England with us on the score of gentlemanly bearing and conduct ?
...At the same time, and I beUeve on the same day, .when the above-named despatch of Mr. Seward was written, your Ministry^ in entire ignorance whether there was any ground to suppose that the slightest wrong or indignity had been authorized by ours^ or even intentionally committed by Capt Wilkes^ and with- out waiting a moment for possible opportunity for disavowal or explanation^ were inditing a despatch to Lord Lyons, demanding^ in absolute terms^ the surren- der of the traitors as an ultimatum, and an apology for their seizure (terms required of inferiors or sub- ordinates in position, and never among equals, at least until after opportunity for a mutual understanding and the failure of efforts to secure one), — a procedure between two civilized nations^ it is believed^ wholly without parallel in history ; and they accompanied this GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
What to read after Correspondence On the Present Relations Between Great Britain And the United States of America?
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