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She did not; and the Kaiser had still very clearly and sorely in remembrance what choice she had made between standing with him and standing with us a few years before this, upon an occasion that was also connected with Admiral Dewey.
This I shall fully consider after summarizing those international episodes of our Civil War wherein England was concerned. This completes my list of minor troubles with England that we have had since Canning suggested our Monroe Doctrine in 1823.
Minor troubles, I call them, because they are all smaller than those during our Civil War. The full record of each is an open page of history for you to read at leisure in any good library.
You will find that the anti-English complex has its influence sometimes in the pages of our historians, but Professor Dunning is free from it.
You will find, whatever transitory gusts of anger, jealousy, hostility, or petulance may have swept over the English people in their relations with us, these gusts end in a calm; and this calm is due to the common-sense of the race.
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