Thus, again, was her conduct moderate and pacific.

If you think that this was through fear of us, I can only leave you to our western blow-hards of 1845, or to your anti-British complex.

What I see in it, is another sign of that fundamental sense of kinship, that persisting unwillingness to have a real scrap with us, that stares plainly out of our whole first century--the same feeling which prevented so many English from enlisting against us in the Revolution that George III was obliged to get Hessians.
Nicaragua comes next.

There again they were quite angry with us on top, but controlled in the end by the persisting disposition of kinship.

They had land in Nicaragua with the idea of an Isthmian Canal.