She ate "humble pie." We had to eat humble pie in the affair of the Trent.

It has been done since.

It is not pleasant, but it may be beneficial.
Such is the story of the true England and the true America in 1861; the divided North with which Lincoln had to deal, the divided England where our many friends could do little to check our influential enemies, until Lincoln came out plainly against slavery.

I have had to compress much, but I have omitted nothing material, of which I am aware.

The facts would embarrass those who determine to assert that England was our undivided enemy during our Civil War, if facts ever embarrassed a complex.