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Excerpt from England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy In all its aspects the American civil war is one of the most remarkable dramas the world has ever witnessed. Its theatre is a continent; its actors are thirty millions of people; its spectators are all the nations of the earth; upon its issue depend the fate of an oppressed race, the future of the mightiest republic of modern times, and the advancement or the retrogression of Christian civilization over a large portion of the globe. This mighty contest is regarded by Englishmen and by loyal Americans from very different points of view. In England, while some of all classes have comprehended from the first the true nature of the struggle, others have considered it a mere war for political supremacy or independence; others, again, have seen in it nothing more than a violent disturber of British commercial and industrial interests; and a fourth and most influential class has concerned itself solely in determining how far the war might be made to benefit Great Britain, at the expense of the United States. To us, on the other hand, the strife involves results far more momentous than mere individual interests or sufferings. Our national existence and tho very principles of our form of government are at stake; unimportant or worthless, as these may be to Englishmen, to us they are priceless as his household gods to the old Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.