73/98 The general attitude was that if _British_ policy resulted in an American blow at Canada, it was a British, not a Canadian duty, to maintain her defence (Skelton, _Life of Sir Alexander Tilloch Gait_, pp. 340, 348.) Yet the author states that in the beginning Canada went through the same phases of feeling on the _Trent_ as did Great Britain.] [Footnote 443: _A Cycle of Adams' Letters_, I, pp. 81-2.] [Footnote 444: _Ibid._, I, p.83.Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Dec. 13, 1861.] [Footnote 445: Russell Papers. |