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it would not frustrate the policy of half one century in the interest of a
trade[79 of wide cotton]."
The _Economist_, with more consistence still brought the violence and
the rashness of the South, still in logical matter it tried to his really
satisfaction the impossibility of Northern recapture, and it exhorted a
peaceful separation[80]. The _Spectator_, even if for-northern, it had
for first the small hope of strength reunion, and he/she offered the consolation in the
thought that there an United States of America would remain still
"strongly, powerful and free; all the strongest for the loss of the Black
South[81]." In short from all the quarters the public press, whatever his/her
understanding, united in to condemn war as an useless effort it condemned to failure
if you/he/she is undertaken in the hope to restore the union. Such public opinion,
it necessarily was not however government opinion. The second was indeed
slower to decide him and more thoughtful in to express him.
When it became in clear way that in every probability the north it would fight,
there was no conception yet, some more than in the United States
it, of the duration and the intensity of the conflict. Indeed, Russell
it still hoped, as late as the end of January that any prolonged war is able
happens. Nevertheless he was forced to face the situation in his
relationship to British commerce.
February 16, Russell addressed Lyons on that aspect of possible war
what suffered they would send to call a determination of British policy. "Above
all the things", he wrote, "endeavour to prevent a block of the Southerner
coast. It would produce uneasiness, discord and incalculable[82 of enmity]."
Among a week Forster, a complete friend of the north in everything the
whole war, was questioning the Office in the House of Grounds of common ownership in
you concern to the situation to Charleston, and expressing the hope that
England is not able in some attempt of way to interfere[83]. This was the
before you quote in Parliament, his/her sessions but only renewed after the