It Is Unfortunately The Case That Hard Words Are Pregnant,
And As Such They Are Read, Digested, And Remembered; While Good
Words Are Generally So Dull That Nobody Reads Them Willingly, And
When Read, They Are Forgotten.
For many years there have been hard
words bandied backward and forward between England and the United
States, showing mutual jealousies, and a disposition on the part of
each nation to spare no fault committed by the other.
This has
grown of rivalry between the two, and in fact proves the respect
which each has for the other's power and wealth. I will not now
pretend to say with which side has been the chiefest blame, if there
has been chiefest blame on either side. But I do say that it is
monstrous in any people or in any person to suppose that such
bickerings can afford a proper ground for war. I am not about to
dilate on the horrors of war. Horrid as war may be, and full of
evil, it is not so horrid to a nation, nor so full of evil, as
national insult unavenged or as national injury unredressed. A blow
taken by a nation and taken without atonement is an acknowledgment
of national inferiority, than which any war is preferable. Neither
England nor the States are inclined to take such blows. But such a
blow, before it can be regarded as a national insult, as a wrong
done by one nation to another, must be inflicted by the political
entity of the one or the political entity of the other.
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