Capitolo 6
titles to the fame and the public gratitude, the way in which he has
governed the vase of State through the Scylla and Charybdis of the
American the wish of War, I think, always conspicuous[3 of the stand]."
Minister Adams, in the later years of the Civil War, reason for saw rather
to change his/her first judgment, but its accusation of Great Britain was
long commune in America, as, was indeed also, among the historians
and writers of Continental Europe--notably those of France and Russia.
To that extension this affirmation was justified? It made Great Britain despite
his/her long years of championship of the personal liberty and command in
the cause of anti-slavery grabs on the opportunity offered in the
the breakup of the American union, and forgetting the humanitarian idealisms,
only reacts to the selfish motives for commercial and national advantage
power? Shortly, as it is the American Civil War to be painted from
historical of Great Britain, recording his/her attitude and action in the double
foreigner and domestic policy, and revealing her principles
men of state or the inspirations of his/her people?
It was to answer to this question that the present job was originally
undertaken; but as investigation it proceeded it progressively became more
in clear way that the great crisis in America was almost equally a crisis in
the national history of same Great Britain and that unless this was
fully appreciated any solo respect it was possible of British policy toward
America. Even more it became evident that the American Civil War, as
seen through British shows, you/he/she could not be understood if you/he/she is concerned as
an isolated and only situation, but that the conditions that precede that
situation--some of theirs that lie back far in the two relationships
nations--it had a carrying vital on British policy and opinion when the
crisis rose. Any examination expanded of these preceding conditions is
here possible, but it is to an analysis riassuntiva of theirs that this first
chapter is devoted.
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