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to British affairs, saw his/her first duty, before war broke, in cautious
suggestions against the forced Northern action. So that January to
March, 1861, British effort and indirect suggestion were based on the hope
what probable is that British affairs of work escape the tribulations inevitable
from a civil conflict in America. Over that point you/he/she was not taken
of the complications probable to rise in case of war and anybody clear
the formulation of British policy[72].
In fact above to the middle one of March, 1861, both public and official
British opinion discounted armed conflict, or at least some it determined
I force northern to recover the South. The first British attitude was,
therefore, based on a misunderstanding. As this became clear, public
opinion started to break from a humanitarian and united for-northern feeling
and to show, in of the quarters completely another face. Also as soon as
January the _Economist_ expressed he/she wonders that States Northern they had
him benefited not to gladly of the opportunity of "to shake away such
incubus, and to purify himself/herself/themselves of such stain[73]." and one month
later it professed to believe that Great Britain would have allowed gladly the
Northerly to assure the compensation for loss of territory annexing
Canada--provided that the Canadians I was they desired him/it. This, was
disputed, it would directly draw profit same England cutting military
expenditures[74]. The _London Press_ satisfied in similar speculation,
although from the angle of a Canadian annexation of States Northern,
of whom city more sober they now owe from is tired of the imitation of American
democracy, and it disgusted with the rowdyism of political elections that
"you combine the morals of an equine run, the manners of a struggle of dog the
passions of a faucet-room and the emotions of a house[75 of the gambling]."
Such suggestions probably had few the true purpose or wanting to tell the
moment, but it is interesting that this idea on one "compensation" in