It becomes more plain each day that the better sentiment of the States abhors the thought of war with the old country, and that the danger of the situation is passing rapidly away. There needs, however, sympathetic understanding on the part of England of the difficulty of the situation in America—there must be, even though it be said with a certain humiliation, a practical "'humour ing" in lesser points of an unhomogeneous and dissentient nation, lest it be thrust, utterly against its intelligent will, into an attitude of reckless defiance heedless of consequences. There is no use in endeavouring to conceal the fact that American feeling toward England is not as English feeling toward the States. There is of course in the ola country more than enough of prejudice and petty ill-will toward her American cousins, but it is of the all
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