They Doubtless Could Show Other
Points Of Difference On The Other Side.
With us, in the early years
of this century, it was a contest for life and death, in which
We
could not stop to count the cost - in which we believed that we were
fighting for all that we cared to call our own, and in which we were
resolved that we would not be beaten as long as we had a man to
fight and a guinea to spend. Fighting in this mind we won. Had we
fought in any other mind I think I may say that we should not have
won. To the Americans of the Northern States this also is a contest
for life and death. I will not here stay to argue whether this need
have been so. I think they are right; but this at least must be
accorded to them - that, having gone into this matter of civil war,
it behoves them to finish it with credit to themselves. There are
many Englishmen who think that we were wrong to undertake the French
war; but there is, I take it, no Englishman who thinks that we ought
to have allowed ourselves to be beaten when we had undertaken it.
To the Americans it is now a contest of life and death. They also
cannot stop to count the cost, They also will go on as long as they
have a dollar to spend or a man to fight.
It appears that we were paying fourteen millions a year interest on
our national debt in the year 1796.
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